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Prompt: Write a story. Cut the results in half. Then double them. Prompt: Somewhere in your hometown, there’s an abandoned building. That’s your main character. Prompt: Think of a type of story you’d sooner die than write. Do it the right way. But don’t start doing it “right” until page two. Try to make the shift natural. Prompt: Go to your local grocery store. Watch the cheese section closely. There’s your story. Prompt: If you've got an idea where you've either got too many people in space too small, or not enough people in a very big space, reverse the idea. Write the same story, but put lots of people in a big space, or very few people in a very small space. Prompt: Make someone wonderful do something loathsome. Don't explain why, but make sure the reader clearly knows why. Prompt: Destroy something everyone else is defending (newspapers, for instance) Prompt: How far can your story safely go before you have to put a character in it? Prompt: Construct a story backwards Prompt: Tell a story that includes first, second, and third-person, omniscient and omniscient limited Prompt: Give your character a defining tic or quirk and let that become the motivator throughout the story Prompt: Write yourself into the story as a character |
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