Plot Twist Story Prompts: Something Found

Plot twist story prompts aren't meant for the beginning or the end of stories. Rather, they're for forcing big and small turns in the anticipated trajectory of a story. This is to make it more interesting for the readers and writers alike.

Each week, I'll provide a new prompt to help twist your story. Find last week's prompt, Barrier Breaks, here.

For today's prompt, have a character find something. The object may be something of value or have some sort of power attached to it. And it may or may not call to someone else and/or have others who pursue it.

(Creating Believable Magic.)

A character is roaming through a flea market when some object catches their eye. They purchase it for relatively nothing only to find that someone else would also like to have the same object...and at any price (even if it involves murder).

Or a character finds an object in the woods that looks like some kind of old medallion or jewelry...only now your character seems to be able to perform magic. This excites your character, but it also draws unwelcome attention from local law enforcement and/or other magical people and/or creatures.

So have a character find something, and see what happens next.

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Have you hit a wall on your work-in-progress? Maybe you know where you want your characters to end up, but don’t know how to get them there. Or, the story feels a little stale but you still believe in it. Adding a plot twist might be just the solution.

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