In the spirit of the Hugo awards, if you had to nominate a story, any story ever, what would it be and why? Can you incorporate what you like about that story into your own?
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In Starrise at Corrivale, Duane takes some common sci-fi tropes and subverts them. Pick your favorite trope and write it in a new and unexpected way.
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We all have our favorite stories, so take your favorite fairy tale or just-so story or romance and change its genre. What would happen if your witch was actually a scientist or your hunky lead was a werewolf?
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Following in the footsteps of Terry Border‘s art, animate an inanimate object and have it share its secret desires and ambitions with us.
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Evanovich’s problem is that her characters never learn from their mistakes. Go back to your writing and make sure that your characters actually move forward and develop in a realistic fashion–for the better OR the worse.
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In the vein of Dresden, disguise something magical in the everyday. Brownies with a cleaning service? Unicorns at the zoo? Go as big as you can.
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Give us a story about a Chekovian Gun. What, once it enters the story, must go off for the story to be complete?
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In American Gods, Gaiman creates some new gods for our new culture. What new god would you introduce to our society?
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Take a deity, and for funsies, pick a relatively unknown one. What is it doing today? What kind of job does he/she have?
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Characters that have lived together for a long time have set routines and expectations. Set those up for us, then shatter them with an unexpected scenario!