Initial Plot Ideas

Usually when I start coming up with story ideas I literally just spitball and write down everything that comes to my mind. This shows me how much all my research has influenced me since most of the ideas will be derived from it one way or another. It helps to just start with some words and write them down, eventually you start placing words together and forming sentences, while writ little phrases your mind gradually comes up with different scenarios or scenes that could turn into good story lines.

Hikikamori:

- staying in your forever and developing social anxiety.

Hospital setting:

- mental institute where you hear children's laughter, happy music, see and hear rocking chairs but the hospital is empty

- there could be a little girl [refer to Courage the Cowardly Dog gif]

- she could get a visitor often who comes over and hangs out with her

- draws friends on the wall, even her parents are drawn on the wall

Toys:

- a toy is given to a mentally ill child

- it has to deal with the abuse it gets, like limbs being pulled and replaced, so when the child isn't looking it struggles to move and looks gross when it does

- it cares for the child and wants it to get better so it's fine with the pain that's inflicted on it, because it always accompanies the child to hospital appointments and sees the pain and suffer he/she goes through

- it'll move closer to the child when they need to vent out something, so they don't have to keep it in

Nightmare disorder:

- person prefers dreaming, over real-life because they can do what they want, they can let out frustration

- they could develop insomnia!

- one time someone pisses them off in their dream and they decide to hurt them to let out frustration and kills them in the process. People get shocked.

- the person tries to fall ect. to wake themselves up but it was all real
Trichotillomania:

- a girl lives in a rich household, where everything is perfect

- parents would always be at work; abandonment

- older sibling is someone who she should be like

- she loves her hair, pulls out her eyebrows and is just happy that it's more physically with her in her hand, rather than on her face

- getting at the age where all girls talk about makeup; mascara, eyebrow pencil and make fun of her because she doesn't have any

- she covers her face and progressively it gets worse whens he runs out of eyebrows and eyelashes to pull, turns to the hair on her head

- parents are ashamed "why can't you be like everyone else/your older sibling?" "hiring a psychiatrist will make my name look bad".