r/StoryIdeas

For context the plot is that the main character Dante Barbieri is a fan of Mafia based movies and history so for a final project for his college he does research on the mob and He meets a historian who accidentally sends him back in time to 1923 the peak of the Mafia in New York

basically he accidentally saved one of the members and was Sworn in and He realized that his family knew the Mafia and they recognized his name so they just thought he was a kid looking for a family And job.

The working title I had was "Into the family." But it Wasn't sticking so I wanted to hear your ideas

(this might not be original or anything special): a teen who’s mostly a loner in high school finds a website where you can sign up for a game challenge (in real life) survival type, it simply explains how you would be locked in a empty town for 7 straight days, and for those 7 days you will have to fight a group of hunters that enter the town at a random time(you have to take them down before the end of the day)now these aren’t any like really special trained adults as that would be unfair, instead it’s a bunch of teens you’re age to make it for fair and the number of the teens will increase each day, but since your still out numbered you get enhanced durability and hearing(not super hero level or anything crazy just better than the teens and most humans). So basically that’s the whole thing, but I did forget to mention every house’s power works and the town is surrounded by forest and a gate soon the forest(some houses have food and water) and when he completes the game he wins 10 million dollars, so yeah just wanted to share that and please no hate i just had a cool idea for a story.

Hello I haven’t ever written and I’m more just writing out my thoughts but I thought about this story idea and just wanted some other opinions on it.
A man discovers a way to time travel and heads to the future because he wants to see what historians say of his generation. He discovers this and studies it happily in this future for years until he is satisfied that he understands. However he begins to worry about being left in the past while things move forth around him and he longs to know what humans might learn centuries later. Because of this he leaves his new life behind to travel another century and repeat the same process.
He does this so he can feel as though he is escaping the confines of time. In reality he fears death and runs as fast as he can into immortality in any way he can. Yet he must accept in the end that the world will inevitably move on without him and he will never know the future as long as he lives.
-I don’t know if he’s gonna be chill with that or have a huge breakdown about it
So please if anyone sees this send a gal a comment or two on what you think:)

If you write a story what would it be ?

Emmet McKinzy is a 10-year old boy with a big family. He's the middle sibling of 11 siblings, including 17-year old Hannah, a bossy yet kind fashion blogger, 16-year old Diana, a kind-hearted ditz, 14-year old Carrie, an aspiring actor, 13-year old Sally, a nature lover, 12-year old Loretta, a technology junkie, 8-year old Kathryn, an aspiring model, 7-year old triplets Maggie, Clara, and Samantha, a snob, a dirt lover, and a comedian respectively, and 6-month old Molly. Emmet has a hard time living his life at home with them, but he still manages it. However, despite them making his life difficult, they all still care for him very much, and are willing to help him out in anyway possible, whether it's dealing with bullies, or getting the final copies of video games.

He and his family live in the town of Voorhees Hills, and Emmet is in the fourth grade. His best and only friend is his neighbor, 10-year old Marty Crusoe. At school, he has to deal with bully Tina Van Douglas, cruel gym teacher Charlie Hartman, and nerd Timmy Dyke. In public, he has to deal with the street gang the Pit Vipers, and cranky 80-year old Wilhelm Burgdorf. Emmet has an interest in comics, movies, and video games. He's especially fond of giant monster movies.

He's always there for his family and Marty, despite the chaos of his life. He likes to spend time with his sisters whenever he can, but he more often likes to spend time alone. Because of his sisters' 10 different personalities, he always knows how to handle any problem. He definitely wouldn't trade his life for the world....

Its not gonna be a published book or anything just gimme some ideas, im running out of some lol and also any genres are allowed:333

I’ve had this manga/novel concept in my head for years, so I figured I’d finally put the basic idea out there.
I’ll give the basic premise first, and if you have questions, ask me because I probably have an answer 😂. There’s a LOT more to this story than what I’m putting here.
The world is a fantasy/modern-ish world with a very strong divide between Winners and Losers.
Monsters come from the core of the planet. Why? Nobody knows yet.
There are people called Heroes (I might change the name because “Hero” sounds pretty basic) whose job is to fight and kill these monsters. There are only 1,000 ranked Heroes, ranging from D-Rank to S-Rank. Only the top 10 are S-Rank.
The interesting thing is that around 98% of Heroes are Winners. Losers are generally seen as people who don’t have what it takes to become Heroes and mostly end up doing physical/labor jobs instead.
Our MC becomes a Hero.
But he’s not your typical shonen MC.
His entire goal is to write the story of his own life. He’s basically writing an ongoing biography, and he wants his life to be as interesting as possible so he can create the best story.
So he intentionally tries to become a stronger Hero because he wants to experience crazier things, meet interesting people, fight stronger monsters, and have more things to write about.
And he’s kinda messed up because he doesn’t always react to emotional situations normally. If something tragic happens, instead of necessarily processing it emotionally, he’ll think about how good of a part it would make in his story and write it down.
If someone falls in love with him, he might basically think, “That’s a pretty interesting development for my story.”
The story is literally his life, and we’re basically watching his life while knowing that he’s writing it down as it happens.
And this is genuinely like 1% of the actual story. 😭
I haven’t even explained the real power system, the actual plot, the major characters, the intelligent monsters, the later story, or where the Winner/Loser conflict goes.
So if you’re interested, ask me anything about it. I have way more planned than I could fit into one post

I have a thought that keeps lingering in my mind.

Suppose everything in our world is a pre‑written story made by a novelist.

Imagine a protagonist writes a novel. Inside that novel, the character slowly realises that every moment of his life was already written in advance.

All of his feelings, struggles, doubts and attempts to break free are not his own spontaneous choices — they are just sentences planned by the author.

At the end of that inner story, the character asks:

"If my whole life is written by a novelist, then who is writing the novelist that created me? Is the author of my world also just a character inside another book?"

Then the writer in our world, who created this protagonist, suddenly wonders:

What if I am also a character in someone else’s novel? Every thought I have right now, every word I type, including this very doubt, might already be predetermined text on a page.

This idea feels contradictory to me.

I do not truly believe it is true. But I have no solid evidence to disprove it.

And here lies the strangest part: even if I found some evidence to argue against this theory, could that evidence itself also be carefully arranged by the same novelist?

So I want to ask you all: is there any way for a person trapped inside the story to prove that the world is not pre‑written?

Hi everyone! My friend and I are planning to build an app that allows users to write about their life experiences. The app will transform these entries into a beautiful newspaper format, which you can choose to keep private or share on social media.

For example, if you graduate—a significant moment in your life—this app would help you capture and present that memory nostalgically. Our goal is to create something that remains meaningful to you even 5-10 years later, making you feel a sense of nostalgia whenever you look at that newspaper. We believe that "Everyone is the hero of their own story."

We would love to hear your thoughts on this idea. Do you think it will be successful? Does it interest you? Would people, particularly those from Gen Z, be willing to pay $5-$6 per month for this service?

Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!

I'm in the idea stage of my zombie story, and i keep coming up with the same old zombie tropes. How do i make a zombie story more unique. Something new or at least less known or less popular. Am I just uncreative, or has everything alr been done😭😭

Jason Statham plays himself—one of the most recognizable action stars in the world.

While filming his latest blockbuster in a country bordering a war-torn region, Statham is unexpectedly given two days off before he is needed back on set. Rather than sit around his hotel, he decides to spend the day sightseeing and exploring the surrounding area.

Across the border, a brutal civil war has left several isolated villages cut off from the outside world. One particular village has almost no access to television, the internet, or modern entertainment. Somehow, over the years, they have gotten their hands on a small collection of bootleg DVDs—all starring Jason Statham.

The Transporter. Crank. The Mechanic. Homefront.

To the villagers, these aren’t movies.

They’re evidence.

Because Statham looks the same, talks the same, fights the same, drives like a maniac, survives impossible situations, and always seems to defeat entire armies of criminals by himself, the villagers have become convinced that Jason Statham is an actual international operative—and that Hollywood simply makes movies about his missions.

When word spreads that the real Jason Statham is only a few hours away, several desperate villagers cross the border and kidnap him.

Statham wakes up expecting a ransom demand.

Instead, the villagers are celebrating.

They believe they’ve just captured the one man who can save them.

Their village is being terrorized by a ruthless militia that has taken control of the surrounding region. Families have been displaced, supplies are running low, and several villagers have been taken prisoner.

They show Statham his own movies as proof of what they believe he can do.

Statham tries desperately to explain the truth:

He’s an actor.

The fights are choreographed.

The explosions are controlled.

There are stuntmen, camera crews, special effects, and dozens of takes.

The villagers don’t believe a word of it.

After all, they’ve watched him survive worse.

At first, Statham’s only goal is to escape and get back to the movie set before shooting resumes in two days. But after seeing what the villagers are actually facing—and realizing no one is coming to save them—he decides to help.

There’s just one problem:

Jason Statham has spent his entire career pretending to be the world’s toughest man.

Now he has 48 hours to find out how much of Jason Statham is actually real.

Hello my name is Chance B and this is my anime idea

THE LIVES I LEFT BEHIND

Genre: Action / Fantasy / Supernatural / Psychological / Drama
Format: Anime series
Tone: Emotional, mysterious, dark, with intense action and occasional humor

THE HOOK

A dying man makes one final wish:

“If I’m going to die… let me live every life I could have lived.”

His wish is granted.

He is reincarnated again and again into completely different lives and worlds. In each life, he becomes someone different—a warrior, a villain, a king, a nobody, a hero, and even someone who causes terrible things.

But there is a price.

Every time he dies, he loses the person he was.

His memories disappear. His personality changes. His relationships are forgotten. The person he loved in one life means nothing to the person he becomes in the next.

Eventually, he reaches what appears to be his final life.

And this time, something goes wrong.

He remembers.

Not just one life.

All of them.

And he realizes that every life he lived was leading toward one final battle.

A battle against his greatest enemy.

Himself.

THE STORY

The protagonist begins as an ordinary young man who dies unexpectedly.

As he lies dying, he regrets everything he never got to experience. He wonders who he could have become if he had made different choices.

With his final breath, he wishes:

“I want to live every life I could have lived.”

He awakens in another world.

At first, he believes he has simply been reincarnated.

But after living that life and eventually dying, he is born again.

Different body.

Different family.

Different world.

Different personality.

Different destiny.

He has no memory of his previous life.

This happens over and over.

In one life:

He’s a powerless boy who becomes a legendary warrior.

In another:

He’s born with incredible power but becomes a tyrant.

In another:

He’s a healer who refuses to fight.

In another:

He’s a criminal.

In another:

He’s a king who sacrifices himself to save his kingdom.

In another:

He’s just an ordinary person who lives a peaceful life.

Every life teaches him something.

But he doesn’t remember any of it.

The audience, however, gradually begins seeing connections between his lives.

A phrase he says without knowing why.

A fighting technique he somehow remembers.

A song that makes him emotional.

A stranger who feels strangely familiar.

A scar appearing in the same place.

Little pieces of his previous selves are surviving.

THE FINAL LIFE

Eventually, he is reincarnated into a world where humans and supernatural beings are at war.

This time, he is born with an extraordinary ability.

He becomes a hero.

Unlike his previous lives, this version of him genuinely wants to save people.

He builds friendships.

He falls in love.

He discovers what seems to be the greatest threat in the world.

A mysterious enemy known as The Other.

The Other seems to know everything about him.

Every fighting technique.

Every weakness.

Every fear.

Every person he loves.

And whenever the protagonist gets close to defeating him, The Other disappears.

Eventually, the protagonist discovers the truth.

THE TWIST

The Other is him.

Not his current self.

Every version of himself that he left behind.

The warrior.

The tyrant.

The criminal.

The king.

The coward.

The hero.

The innocent child.

Every personality and every choice he made throughout his countless lives has been accumulating somewhere.

His wish didn’t simply allow him to experience different lives.

It split him apart.

Every time he died, the life he had lived was abandoned.

Those abandoned versions eventually became conscious.

And they hate him.

Because from their perspective, he was the one who abandoned them.

The greatest enemy isn’t evil.

It’s everything he refused to accept about himself.

THE FINAL BATTLE

The protagonist fights The Other.

At first, he tries to defeat him.

But every time he attacks, The Other uses abilities from one of his previous lives.

The protagonist realizes he can’t win by simply becoming stronger.

He has spent his entire existence trying to become someone else.

A better person.

A stronger person.

A hero.

But the only way to defeat himself is to finally accept all of himself.

The good.

The evil.

The mistakes.

The people he saved.

The people he hurt.

The lives he loved.

The lives he hated.

The people he became.

He finally tells The Other:

“You aren’t the part of me I need to destroy.”

“You’re the part of me I left behind.”

Instead of killing his other selves, he accepts them.

For the first time, he remembers everything.

THE ENDING

But there is one final consequence.

His original wish has finally been fulfilled.

He has lived every life he could have lived.

There is nothing left.

His body begins to disappear.

His friends desperately try to save him.

He tells them that he’s not afraid anymore.

For the first time in all his lives, he knows exactly who he is.

He dies.

For real.

There is no reincarnation.

No reset.

No new world.

No second chance.

His friends are devastated.

But the world he saved continues.

The final scene shows children telling stories about the hero who saved their world.

One child asks:

“What happened to him?”

Someone answers:

“He died.”

The child asks:

“Was he scared?”

And the answer is:

“No. He had already lived a thousand lives.”

The screen fades to black.

Then we hear the protagonist’s voice:

“I spent my whole life wondering who I could have been.”

“In the end, I learned that I only needed to be me.”

It's a cyberpunk setting with heavy inspiration from jujutsu kaisen.

The year is 2080, and there are three government factions: anthros, demons, and hybrids, which they own their own part of one huge city and their own governments. And some of these people have chips in their heads that grant them unique abilities, there's a miniscule amount of hybrids that are able to gain these abilities without said chips, some formed by mental trauma or worse

Felix is an 18 year old boy who's a hybrid. He has a black cat tail and demon horns, a his left eye a spiral. and he was previously experimented on in his younger childhood by the government.

After a night out with his friends, someone attempts to rob him. Felix is forced to kill him in self-defense and is now being hunted by bounty hunters, along with the government.

He's wanted to get into the government as well to make everything better for his people and everyone else's. His solution is to kill those at the top of each government.

So yeah, I just need to hear if anyone thinks this is an interesting plot to read. Every opinion helps!

I have been thinking about what I would like to create as the core idea for my upcoming webcomic currently dubbed DreamScape.

The current idea is for the comic to be a supernatural, sc-fi, thriller that explores the challenges of various mental disorders through the eyes of its main cast of misfits. That will frequently switch between two core settings: a more technologically enhanced earth (not fully futuristic,) and an alternate dimension know as the dreamscape (hence the comics title.) after a catastrophic accident traps them there at night.

Whist trapped in the dreamscape the group will all posses unique abilities themed around their associated mental disorders which will aid them in their quest to uncover the eerie truths surrounding the dreamscape in order to break the cycle & escape for good whilst undertaking on a journey of acceptance through the physiological tortures they're forced to endure for their survival.

The comic will eventually end with a climactic decision as one of the cast must sacrifice themselves to ensure the others freedom.

( I don't currently have any plans for romance to occur within the group but, I'm not completely opposed to it either.)

So i want to add the sins to a story/book im writing and i want them to kill people with that sin, for example gluttony over feeds people until they explode pretty much, sloth forces them to literally do nothing until they die, lust... well you get the idea, i want them to be both "suffering' from the sin and kill people with that sin but i don't know any idea how to do it for pride, envy and greed 

Hi, I wrote a small short for fun, it's about two guys who discover their microwave can make stuff disappear. Let me know what y'all think

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zalwbYFAOZWbjmL4XDHkYMAIvtuJSLbX/view?usp=sharing

A High School Love Story (series) planning to write these.

1. The King of the Court, The Queen Bee

 

- The captain of the basketball team; he has good leadership, high IQ, and EQ. He is somewhat of a good boy; he helps those who are bullied. He is not afraid of the Queen Bee. The Queen Bee is very authoritative. She has her specific spot in the canteen. Everyone is afraid of her except for the basketball team, which makes her anxious.

2. The London Boy, Bisaya Girlie - Lad and Inday

 

- There is a new boy in school; he transferred from London. The last time he was in the Philippines was when he was five years old. He has forgotten his culture in the Philippines, and he is too English. He has a problem adjusting. His seatmate, the Bisaya, is very patient with him while every one judge and makes fun of him. However, her accent makes it difficult for him to understand her at times. 

3. The Prince and the Pauper

 

 - He is from one of the richest families; he is a little bit arrogant. His best friend has a maid that he is smitten with, the Pauper. The Pauper is the maid's daughter; she is the same age as the Pessimist, and they became close even though they always contradict each other. The Pauper is always nervous whenever the Prince is around.

4. The Pessimist, The Optimist

 

 - A girl who is a perfectionist, which makes her grumpy, which makes her scared of making mistakes. She is also a spoiled brat; she is the boss of the Pauper and the best friend of the prince. A boy who accepts failure and challenges for growth; he is not afraid to make mistakes because he knows no one is perfect. He doesn't meddle with fights or arguments in school. He knows how to control his emotions. But one emotion he doesn't know how to handle is falling in love.

I have way too many ideas mostly from dreams I have and I think, damn that would be a cool book, but I have no time for them. So I decided to just start putting them on here. Maybe they’re just cooler in my head than they sound but… here goes the first one:

The entire world has hallucinations, the same one of ancient aliens/invasion
Certain people have degrees of reality, 1-3 levels which give them a break from the hallucinations but also retaining memories and skills of the previous world
Level 3 is most rare with almost full awareness and regular dreaming, become the most powerful and control the world
Level 1 is common with moments of clarity
Level 2 is almost split time in both worlds jumping between. Which world is real? Humans in same space and can see each other but different environment.
Some level 3 people have the ability to chain the minds of others to prevent certain behaviors and thoughts. Some to control, others ask them to. Perhaps these people are actually responsible for the whole thing?

Hey all! I'm working on a story idea, or perhaps two story ideas, not sure yet. Here's what I've got. Looking for some thoughts and feedback before I jump into writing.

TITLE IDEAS

Option 1: Under the Shadow of the Moon

Option 2: Beneath the Shade of the Moon

PLOT IDEAS

Option 1:

The year is 2030. An IVF baby, now grown, learns of his IVF origins, and begins a desperate search to find his siblings, unsure if they are trapped in time, frozen in some clinic, or living another life hundreds of miles away. Frustration with this new revelation, coupled with the immense struggle of trying to find his siblings, boils over and the man finds himself weighing his own value and considering the means by which he might reunite with his lost siblings.

Option 2:

Obscure year. A technologically advanced near future. A man exploring the possibility of alternate timelines discovers an old book with a photo of another man who looks remarkably like him. Further investigation leads him to conclude the man in the picture doesn't belong in the time he is portrayed. Interest piqued, the man searches for other examples of this, hoping to prove tike travel, dimensonal crossing, or the existence of a multiverse. Finding more, he concludes these people are not from the times, or perhaps timelines, they appear in. Partnering with a team of engineers, they create a device that will allow them to send a probe back in time. The man discovers these people are actually his siblings, lost to time, and he begins a desperate race to bring them home.

Open to any feedback at all! Thanks!