Writer's Block Help

Do you need a plot twist or a writing prompt?  Hopefully this will help.  It’s based on something my favorite Dungeon Master would do.  Shuffle a deck of cards and pick one.  Each card causes something different to happen to your character.  It could be as simple as a slight change in health points or as drastic as a sex change.  So I’ve come up with 53 potential plot twists (some are admittedly similar.) Most of them apply to any character in your story; major, minor, or main. So grab a deck of cards (or pick a number) and choose three (in case one doesn’t work at all) and find a way to weave it into your story.  Enjoy!

P.S. If you’re choosing three numbers, I don’t recommend choosing numbers that are close together.  For example choosing 21, 22, and 23 won’t give you a wide variety of choices.

1. Joker: Main Character gets humiliated

2. A♠:  Someone dies

3. K♠:  Hospitalized or equivalent (i.e. bedridden, sickbay, ect.)

4. Q♠:  Experience Amputation (simple as an ear or serious as a limb)

5. J♠:  Poisoned

6. 10♠:  Tortured

7. 9♠:  Vandalized

8. 8♠:  Meet a unique/odd individual

9. 7♠:  Get in a fight

10. 6♠:  Incarcerated or equivalent (for children’s/YA stories detention)

11. 5♠:  Arrested (may or may not be followed by incarceration)

12. 4♠:  Minor illness (cold, flu, ect.)

13. 3♠:  Someone gets pregnant

14. 2♠:  New baby (surprise birth, baby on doorstep, or inherit an older kid)

15. A♣:  Sustain violent injury (shooting, explosion, ect.)

16. K♣:  Sustain psychological trauma

17. Q♣:  Brain injury/Amnesia

18. J♣:  Loose partial or full eyesight (temporary or permanent)

19. 10♣:  Loose partial or full hearing (temporary or permanent)

20.  9♣:  Experience natural disaster (Flood, Tornado, ect.)

21. 8♣:  Experience unnatural disaster (Car/Plane crash, bombing, ect.)

22. 7♣:  Lose hair (natural balding or hair removal cream in the shampoo)

23. 6♣:  Acquire a new weapon (anything from a squirt gun to the Death Star)

24. 5♣:  Experience culture shock

25. 4♣:  Get eerily personal fortune/prophesy (you decide if it comes true)

26. 3♣: Flashback

27. 2♣: Acquire a new skill

28. A♦:  Acquire a large sum of money (legally)

29. K♦:  Get promoted or equivalent

30. Q♦:  New job/career

31. J♦:  Get demoted or equivalent

32. 10♦:  New car or new form of transportation

33. 9♦:  Receive a rather generous gift

34. 8♦:  Acquire an inheritance (the size is up to you)

35. 7♦:  New defensive mechanism/new armor

36. 6♦:  Enter/play a game

37. 5♦:  Accusation of stealing/robbery

38. 4♦:  Win a bet

39. 3♦:  Lose a bet

40. 2♦:  Lose a large sum of money

41. A♥:  Experience love at first sight

42. K♥:  Accused/caught in infidelity

43. Q♥:  Get married

44. J♥:  Surprise/unexpected marriage proposal

45. 10♥:  Get asked on a date

46. 9♥:  Experience gender identity crisis or something similar (i.e. Boy has to wear tights)

47. 8♥:  Romantic encounter

48. 7♥:  Get a new look/haircut and it looks better

49. 6♥:  Get a new look/haircut and it looks terrible

50. 5♥:  Receive a gift from someone special

51. 4♥:  Get kissed (the reaction is up to you)

52. 3♥:  Cultural/Family identity crisis (i.e. finding out about adoption, or disagrees with a newly learned cultural norm)

53. 2♥:  Experience heartbreak