text: can someone give me a good idea for a story?   okay, if you are a historical person that likes a ton of research and history, than you could write about a character going through a war.  ex. emily turner going through the revolutionary war as a loyalist to king george.  she is about to be married off to a patriot named stephen, but has a lover on the side who is siding with king george, and she runs off with him.  you could tell the story in 1st or 3rd person point of view.  just make sure you don't go into anyone making love.  an example if you wanted to do, like the holocaust:  anne, 15, as a jewish girl-not anne frank- trying to run away from the nazi soldiers, while her family is fleeing to sweden.  her father gets captured as they get close enough to sweden, and she screams for him with her 3 little sisters and 2 older brothers.  talking about her journey to get to sweden.  whether she makes it or not is your decision, along with her mother and siblings.  if you are a mystery type of person than you could talk about a mystery going on.  i'm not a really good mystery thinker, so i'll just make up a few fake ones. ex.  detective hans, 42, is going to a murder mystery and he spots that there are blood stains on a carpet square, but the person who was murdered didn't shed any blood and was certain that the blood was from a murderer, even though the police thought that it was suicide.  if your a nowatimes writer.  like you want to write about situations that are going on right now. ex.  faith and hope, 7, lost their mother and father in the iraqi war, and are in an orphanage after their beloved aunt diana dies from the avien flu.  you could talk about their journey to get through this and how they are looked at by the families that wish to adopt them.  i think this would be more of a 3rd pov story.  i'll give you one last genre with ideas.  science-fiction/fantasy.  this is really my forte for genre.  ex.  alise is in the year 2052 and all the oil is gone.  she must save america before the world goes into crisis mode about how much gas is a problem, because she is the one who is in charge of finding a gas substitute.(yes, i know some gas substitutes already exist, but pretend like it never happened.) china has already become wanting to go to war with the united states, after the communist powers had spread and engulfed mongolia, russia, and parts of south asia.  this is a 1st pov this might be a little too fantasy, but:  mala, 13, is a mage in the world of kambro.  there has been an uprising of mages on one side of the world, in kandribar, but she lives in kaliz.  the king of kaliz is trying to kill all of the mages, even though he knows that they are the best part of kambro, so the second that mala hears that guards are coming for her family, but that she can't save the whole family, she gets her brother, her female 4th cousin, her best friend, who is a mage, and herself out and into hiding with all of the mage stuff that they can take.  (that was just the 1st part)now in kambro, there is a bit of a problem.  some foreingers from other worlds have come and are trying to kill all of kambro, or enslave them.  it is now up to the hiding family to get their act together.  they are now in their mid-20s.  this could be a varying 1st pov story. you get to decide whether they save kambro or not, or if you want to finish the story in the first part than just do it whether they escape or not.