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It’s not quite as complicated as you may think to come up with good fantasy story ideas. Thinking like you did as a child is a good start to the process. If at all possible you should try to surround yourself with toys and stuffed animals that you had when you were a child. Children are very good at being inquisitive and always seeking answers to questions. The two most common words that most children begin their sentences with are “Why?” and “What if…?”

Those two questions are probably the greatest sources of ideas that mankind has ever come up with and will certainly open up so many fantasy doors that you won’t have the time to worry about finding more ideas. Here is a very simple test. You are reading this article (or having it read for you) so simply ask “What if I didn’t have to read (listen to) this article?” Such a simple little question but now you have to relax and let the answers come to you. Maybe you could absorb the article by simply touching it? Maybe the article could be added to your knowledge by a simple electronic bridge? Now you have two very simple ideas for a story.

Training you mind to think like a child is relatively easy, simply start regularly asking yourself no matter what task you are doing “Why?” or “What if?” and you will find that writing a fantasy story will become quite easy. Here is another example that should help you do these exercises better:

Why does rain fall down? What if it didn’t? Why is rain made of water? What if it wasn’t? Why do two and two make four? What if they didn’t? Why does my dog have four legs? What if it didn’t?

Using these questions to come up with subjects to write fantasy stories about can help you to never face writer’s block again. While it’s fantastic to let your imagination roam when coming up with a fantasy story ideas, it’s important to also know when to rein things in a little. We can take a look at the Why does the rain come down from the sky? What if it didn’t fall from the sky? questions to help prove this point. It would be up to you in your story to determine what would happen to the rain if it did not come out of the sky. Perhaps the life forms had access to some sort of giant lake in the sky where they got the water by using buckets and ropes when they needed water. Perhaps the rain was controlled by some superior being who used it as a punishment and reward system. You could even say the rain acted as a shield to solar flares in the atmosphere.

If rain did not fall down you have to decide what else could happen to it. Maybe it created a stratum in the atmosphere that could be accessed by some form of bucket on a rope when water was needed. Maybe rain was a natural resource that was controlled by factors that kept it in the air until needed. Maybe rain was a natural defense against solar radiation?

For example, if you had accepted “Rain is a natural defense against solar radiation” as the answer to “What if?” you can now ask more “What ifs?” If you decided that rain was responsible for acting as a shield to solar flares in the atmosphere you could then proceed with more “What if?” questions.

When you keep asking “Why?” and “What if?” you will find that your story can keep growing. However, at some point you’re going to have to stop asking the questions and just write the story so you can begin a new one.

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