{"id":5345,"date":"2017-11-01T11:25:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2017-11-01T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T15:25:01","slug":"50-story-ideas-for-national-novel-writing-month-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"50 Story Ideas for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a novel is hard. Writing a novel in one month is almost impossible! November is <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowrimo.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a>, a fun event that dares you to write an entire novel in thirty stressful days. But time is already running out! Where will you get your ideas? Don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ve got you covered. If you&#8217;re stuck for a story idea or plot, turn any of these into a bestselling novel! <\/p>\n<p>1. An orphan is having a hell of a time.<br \/>\n2. Three friends become friends with another human person.<br \/>\n3. A magic tiger just can\u2019t seem to get it together.<br \/>\n4. Petunia discovers all sorts of things regarding a variety of topics.<br \/>\n5. A character changes as a result of several events.<br \/>\n6. The Old Navy store is closed, but the parking lot is full.<br \/>\n7. Gender-swapped<em> Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/em>.<br \/>\n8. A story about a bee named Tapioca.<br \/>\n9. Pool party at Harriett&#8217;s!<br \/>\n10. Three dogs are transported. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>11. A story that Jennifer Lawrence would later be interested in turning into a movie.<br \/>\n12. Everything in your medicine cabinet comes to life at night.<br \/>\n13. A horse dresses as a chicken and, in doing so, learns.<br \/>\n14. Someone is murdered.<br \/>\n15. A middle-aged couple spends the weekend pricing boats.<br \/>\n16. It\u2019s the end of high school, but before you can get into prom, everyone gets to see you all-the-way naked.<br \/>\n17. Superhero with the power of height.<br \/>\n18. What happens when two parrots grow up in an isolated room? Whom is mimicking whom?<br \/>\n19. Moby Dick written as a recipie.<br \/>\n20. It\u2019s Christmas Eve and then it\u2019s not.<br \/>\n21. Typed out transcript of your favorite YouTuber\u2019s latest video.<br \/>\n22. Political commentary thinly veiled behind story of indecisive zookeeper.<br \/>\n23. A worried mom deals with things as best she can.<br \/>\n24. Is that the North Star? No.<br \/>\n25. Two friends build a railroad to a fantasy realm while desperately avoiding any talk of religion.<br \/>\n26. Batman\u2019s at it again. And this time&#8230;well, I don\u2019t want to spoil it.<br \/>\n27. Who left the photo in the conference room, Joel?<br \/>\n28. Mmmonkeys!<br \/>\n29. A rhododendron grows in an unlikely place.<br \/>\n30. A princess falls in love with twenty-three snakes tied together in man-shape.<br \/>\n31. <em>Tarzan vs Online Criticism<\/em>.<br \/>\n32. A woman has three hats, but by story\u2019s end, she has five hats and only minutes to live.<br \/>\n33. The new girl at school thinks baby carrots are young carrots.<br \/>\n34. A travel-sized bottle of shampoo goes nowhere.<br \/>\n35. Opposite of a boomerang &#8212; instead of returning to you, it flies to the person who is your direct opposite in appearance and personality.<br \/>\n36. Greedy real estate company plans to build a cemetery on top of an old camp site.<br \/>\n37. <em>NCIS <\/em>fan-fiction.<br \/>\n38. A turkey chili recipe rewritten as <em>Moby Dick<\/em>.<br \/>\n39. Gwen trains hard to become the final woman on the moon.<br \/>\n40. An alcoholic cop learns to be a better father thanks to advice from Gwen, the final woman on the moon.<br \/>\n41. Where\u2019d the word \u201cbelly\u201d come from. That might interesting.<br \/>\n42. A robot named Biven just doesn\u2019t understand human emotions, but &#8212; get this &#8212; turns out that Biven was just a human in a robot suit the whole goddamn time!<br \/>\n43. The Third Thanksgiving. What happened? Who was there?<br \/>\n44. Amazon doesn&#8217;t sell pizza to moms because backwards Amazon is &#8220;No Za, Ma!&#8221;<br \/>\n45. <em>Cars 4<\/em>.<br \/>\n46. If a Gremlin dies and goes to heaven, will it look like a Gremlin or a Mogwai in heaven?<br \/>\n47. A boy meets a mermaid and they make it work, somehow.<br \/>\n48. In an alternate future in which the Woodland Act of 1958 was never passed, a group of teens must escape&#8230;DEATH BARN!<br \/>\n49. There are pastry chefs, but what about pastry janitors? Ehh? EHHH?<br \/>\n50. One big, 60,000-word lie. <\/p>\n<p><em>For more help on writing a novel, ask your mom why she&#8217;s crying and just write down whatever she says.<\/em><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laserfarm.com%2F%3Fp%3D5345&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a novel is hard. Writing a novel in one month is almost impossible! November is National Novel Writing Month, a fun event that dares you to write an entire novel in thirty stressful days. 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