How to Come Up with Yearbook Story Ideas

Are you working on your school's yearbook committee, and are responsible for writing one of the stories? Are you completely stumped on what to write about? Coming up with inspiration for yearbook story ideas can be one of the most difficult aspects of yearbook publishing. Out of the thousands of events that occur during the year and the hundreds of students involved, how can you boil everything down to a single story and choose the most memorable of the yearbook story ideas to fill the page? Here are a few hints that may be of use to you.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Start early. Most yearbook publishing companies need to have everything done quite early in order to have them all printed in time. Keep a notebook with you and write down all the yearbook story ideas that come to you over the course of your school experience. Mark each one with various plot points and memorable aspects in order to keep them fresh in your mind.

2. Consider the school year itself. Have there been any major events at your school over the course of the year? Did anything particularly interesting or unusual happen? Have any new clubs formed that have made a particular impact on the school or the students? A thousand events happen every day in a typical school, and most of them would make for interesting yearbook story ideas.

3. Think about the other students in your school. Have any of them triumphed over major adversity, whether it be defeating a terrible disease or overcoming a major downturn in their personal lives. Every student is a potential gold mine of drama and information.

4. Give a survey to the student body and tabulate the results. Have it focus on current events, local points of interest, or modern politics. There are endless yearbook story ideas utilizing this method because there are endless combinations of questions that you can ask. Depending on the method of yearbook publishing you choose, you may be able to include several of these in place of a single article.

5. Have multiple students give their observations of a single event or concept. Again, the yearbook story ideas are endless because of how many events take place over the course of the school year.

Tips & Warnings

• Before submitting any story about a particular student for yearbook publishing, be sure to ask permission first to ensure his or her privacy.
• Before submitting anything for yearbook publishing, it is an unfortunate necessity to have a series of teachers, likely including the principal, to approve any yearbook story ideas you may have to ensure that they are not likely to cause offense to anyone.

[SunnyStars]

on 2/5/2009 Excellent yearbook story ideas! Thanks for the great article! 5*Stars!

[georgelarson]

on 2/2/2009 Creative ideas for coming up with yearbook story ideas. Thanks.