#jaye talks

write something in the second person.

write something that isn't a story—an article, an obituary, an instruction manual—and hide a story in it.

write about if a particular place was a person, or if a particular person was a place.

you have fifteen poems to tell your story.

write a palindromic story.

write something you would have loved to read as a child, then rewrite it for a teenager, then an adult.

if your favorite album was a story, write what that story would be.

start writing about your day, a memory, etc, and play the "what if" game as you go, changing details that occur to you until it is no longer recognizable.

write a speculative fiction piece that brings attention to an issue you care about.

write a circular story.

make a list of your favorite tropes to write, and then combine a few of them into a new franken-trope.

borrow an experience that someone you know has had, and write a story about it.