Experiment with writing a story that has two different endings.
How could there be two different endings?
Why would you write a story that had two different endings?
How can this be something that people will want to read?
Category: Experment
Take existing story and try experimenting with it.
Sight to Describe
Describe a sight that the reader has never seen. (use words as your paint brush)
What is in sight? Why is it there? What can be felt? What Can be heard, smelt, and tasted?
What could lead up to this sight?
How do you describe something that is truly foreign to the reader?
How can the reader guess what happened before by what is described?
Gender Flip Rewrite
Take a story you like and flip your favorite character’s gender, and rewrite.
How Does this change the story?
How does this not change the story?
Is the character’s sex that important to the story? Or is it your perception of the character’s sex that is important?
List of Ideas
Create a list of ideas to write for yourself.
How do you record the ideas?
How much detail do you include?
Why make a list when you could write the ideas?
Experiment List
Experiment with creating a list of 15 things you would like to write about.
What kinds of things are on the list?
What can this list tell you about what it is you like to write?
How can you build a plot around items on this list?
A Witch, A Werewolf, or A Vampire Redo
Take the story from yesterday(if you did not write one do it now) and replace the creature you used with one of the other two.
Does the story still work?
What needs to change to make the story work?
Why would one creature work in one situation more than another?
Horror Story
Write a story that could be considered Horror.
Why is it a Horror story?
What can make a Horror story?
What thing need to change to make a Horror story vs a Horror movie?
Cat Experiment
Write a scene where someone is talking with a cat that is trying to tell them something.
What is the cat trying to tell them?
What is the person thinking the cat wants to say?
Experiment with describing the way things feel.
Inanimate Object
Experiment with writing a story about someone that gets some inanimate object that changes there life.
Why does the object influence there life? (existence, technology, infection, magic…)
How can the object do what it does, and what does it do to there life?
Three People
Experiment with writing a story that only has three people in the entire story.
What kind of story is it? (romance, horror, hero…)
Why are the three only ones in the story?
How can a story with only three characters be interesting?