Take existing story and try experimenting with it.
Find one of your stories you like and write a story about the same main character, but at a different point in their lives.
Does this affect the original story?
Are you able to keep the character continuity working? (ie does the character change between the 2 stories to fit the story or does the story change to fit the character?)
If continuity is not working what event happened between the 2 stories your readers are missing out on, and should you instead be writing about that event?
Take one of your stories and shift the time. if the story takes place today move it into the future, if the story takes place in the future put it in the far past.
How does this affect your story?
Does it make it better or worse?
Can you see a different story taking place in the new time?
Write a story like it came from the series Outer Limits (old) or Twilight Zone.
How does yours work?
Do you think the producers, back when the series was made, would use it?
Is there another episode like yours in the series?
Write a story about a man that befriends an old dragon.
How do they become friends?
Why does the dragon let him in?
What are the consequences?
Take the following scene and write 3 different storylines to it. It can be different places and times, even happening at diffrent points in the story, as long as the scene exists there.
The main character wakes up to find themselves covered in rags and living out of a box.
Write a story where the monster is the hero and the one that came to kill him is evil.
Write a story from the horrible monster’s point of view, as the hero comes to vanquish it.
Write a story about a situation, group, activity, or place you know nothing about.
One rule, no research. You must make up all you know about this situation, group, activity, or place.
When you are done research the situation, group, activity, or place and then ask yourself these questions:
Write a story about your life. It can be one day it can be a few scenes, it can be your most stressful day or it can be your most relaxed, but remember to make it interesting enough that others will want to read it.
Take an existing story and choose 1 to 5 scenes from it and rewrite the scene from another point of view. if you used first person use third, try using second person…
After you are done ask yourself the following questions:
Does this help your story?
Would you consider rewriting the whole story for new perspective?