Take the story you wrote yesterday and rewrite it with all emotions reversed. (love to hate, sad to happy, loss to gain)
Does it change the story completely?
Does it make a more interesting story?
Did it challenge you in some new way?
Category: Experment
Take existing story and try experimenting with it.
Accelerate Technology
Accelerate the technological progress of man, and figure out how a person in that day and time would live there life.
What do they do to survive?
Is it a Dystopia, a Utopia, or some gray place in between?
Are they the last of the human race, or just another face in the crowd?
Do they have family or are they born in a factory?
Are they enhanced people or is that banned?
Introspective
Experiment writing a scene where the charter is doing something while they are introspective.
Challenge, make the thoughts lead to the action and the actions lead to the thoughts.
Influence
Create a object that has the ability to influence the world around it, then write a story about it.
What is the object?
What is the influence?
Context Switch
Write a story of yours with a different context.
Examples:
- Story was scfi put it in a fantasy setting.
- Story was in today, make it in the 1920s
- Story was about humans, now it is about aliens.
How does the story work?
Why does the context work? would changing the context be too hard? or could it be helpful to the story?
Super Power Scenario
Create a scenario in which 3 to 5 of the world super powers are somehow nearly wiped out.
How are the people wiped out?
How does the fall of super powers change the world?
How would the effects of this scenario be long lasting?
Left Experment
Come up with 3 different possible stories to explain how the following situation could come about:
“X number of people are killed and left where they fell for many days.”
How did they die?
Why were they not taken care of?
What can this say about the state of the world?
Friends Adventure Reverse
Take the story from yesterday and rewrite it with all the characters genders reversed.
How do you have to change the story to make it believable?
What can you leave in to make it still a good read?
What can you do to incorporate the original story?
Someone Else’s Charater
Write a story where a character you did not create either makes a cameo or is a part of the story.
How well did you make the character like the source character you were pulling the character from?
Is this something you like to do or would you rather have created a character to fit the story better?
Was this a fun challenge?
Movie Re-Write
Rewrite your favorite movie.
What did you change?
What makes the original good? what make it bad?