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For novelists, GMs, screenwriters & beyond

Build rich worlds, draft your stories and connect everything with advanced linking and easy references.

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Creative writing practice can be exciting

Jump into 30+ writing exercises—playful, reflective, and style-focused. Build the habit that transforms okay writers into great ones.

Forge your own generators

Custom idea tables for any project

Build random generators from your own lists, combine results, publish pages, and keep your best idea engines close.

Build choice adventures

Branching stories on a visual canvas

Map scenes, connect choices, track resources, and publish interactive fiction people can actually play.

3000+ Idea Generators

Names, places, plots and more

Beat writer's block in seconds. Over 3000 free name and idea generators for characters, worlds, items and writing prompts.

All your ideas in one place

Roll from any Story Shack generator, pin favorites, and build your shortlist.

Search every Story Shack generator in one focused workspace, roll quick batches, pin favorites, and stack your best ideas.

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The Collector
A Swingin’ Cat
Midnight Elvis
Warehouse Wars
The Magical Night
They Know Your Face
The Banana Peel Slip
Baby and Me
Touching Foreignness
S’mores
A Ride For Family
Lunch is on me
Phoebe
Beard Club
The Other
The Quiet Section
What’s Funny?
The Prank
The Case of the Shouldering Thief
Blah Blah
Finley’s Airplane
The Case of the Unfortunate Pause
Feeding the Ducks
Hunting for Evidence
Sudden Creation
Pickles And Whispers
Señorita, Oh Señorita
The World’s First Intervention
The Urinal
A Hog’s Heart
Punching Bags
Lobster Meat is Sweet
Early Retirement
Jogging to Cadaverville
Miss Apprehension
Rupert
Down the Hill
Merritt Bogdrosian Hunts Injun Style?
The Car with Three Wheels
Poached Egg
Avocational Confession
Yard Dogs
The Rude Chambermaid
Steak for Tuff
Happy Valentines, Ringo Starr
Death and the Purple Hat
Digging for Victory
Spring Firefighter
Mama Knows Best
Lawyers, Car Dealers, and other Whores
Saving Tim Murnane
On Display
Critics
The Ants Go Marching Two by Two
The Sleepover
The Dodecahedron Skirting the Round Hole
Clenched Teeth
And so the Hat Dropped
The Birthday Party
Noel
Guys and Dolls
Getting Rowdy
A Day of Such Good Cheer
Uniforms
Raketa
Laugh It Off
First Date
Snap
Angry Women Museum
The Brothers
Godfrey Give Me
Inside Lookin Out
Crunched
The Brownies Episode
Reggie and the Pre-Afterlife Waiting Room
Funeral for Charlie
The Sadie Escapists – Part One
Cohabitation
The Dragon’s Inn
Stuffing
Fowl Luck
The Mystery of the Wantom Flippsbury-Brown Nutcracker Hare
The Early Bird
Jimmy Johnson
Caucus at the Parking Meter
My First Deer
Behind the Barn with Carol Ann
Done In Before the Blue Ice Melted
Disorderly Conduct
We Appreciate Your Business
Middle School
Reluctant Punk
Mr. Peanut Takes a Bride
The Leap
Lachrymosa
The Railway Incident
Broken Glass
The Tortoise and Hare Revisited
Chicken Breast and Rump Roast
The Smell
Spin
Shades
An Unexpected Encounter in Jerusalem
The Muhurtham
McGillicuddy’s Wake
Footnotes Only!
The Talent
Child's Play
Dear Principal Chen
The Pope
The Organization
The Kama Sutra Aficionado
But I’m On The ‘Do Not Call’ List
The Halloween Outhouse Caper
A Disgusting Thing
Aunt Jessie’s Box
Pink Slip
Cow
Coffee Apocalypse
How to Fail at Telemarketing
Hard Work Pays off in any Profession
To Post or Not to Post
Tight Forty-Five
McNicholson’s 14th Annual Cider-Bean Festival and Dance Off
A Not So Distressed Damsel
Howdy Doody’s Dad
Cause and Effect
Vend
Jeopardy Double
Still Drunk
The Scene
No Thank You
The Brief and Insignificant Life of a Lowly Tower Guard
Court
Love and Anger at 80, According to Elmer
Hold Me Close
Movin to the Moon
Pedicab
Clown Relief and Aid Providers
Tomato Soup
The Case of the Troubling Shoes
Beautiful Baby
Late Again
A Mind of Its Own
Night Watch
Got Tickets?
The Board Meeting
Jack and Jill

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