Random

Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight

Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love

Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns

is...

A Ballerina ⚜ A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Child ⚜ A Cheerleader

A Cowboy ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer ⚜ A Pirate ⚜ A Spy

A Wheelchair User ⚜ A Zombie ⚜ Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk

Funny ⚜ In a Coma ⚜ In a Secret Society ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy

needs...

A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison

A Coping Strategy ⚜ A Drink ⚜ A Medicinal Herb ⚜ A Mentor

Money ⚜ A Persuasion Tactic ⚜ A Quirk ⚜ To be Killed Off

To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound ⚜ To Self-Reflect

To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ To Swear

loves...

Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils

Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Herbal Remedies ⚜ Honey

Mushrooms ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Perfumes

Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Argue ⚜ To Insult ⚜ To Kiss

To Make False Claims ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting ⚜ Yoga

has/experiences...

Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness

Facial Hair ⚜ Fainting ⚜ Fevers ⚜ Food Allergies

Food Poisoning ⚜ Fractures ⚜ Frostbite ⚜ Hypothermia

Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Kidnapping ⚜ Manipulation ⚜ Mutism

Pain ⚜ Paranoia ⚜ Poisoning ⚜ More Pain & Violence

Scars ⚜ Trauma ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds

[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]

These questions keep you from being blind to the implications of your magic system on the wider world. From thinking no further than your plot and leaving the rest of the world sitting in a default blank slate mode that will leave your reader thinking, "if everyone can fly then why are the cops RUNNING after them?" or "if 5% of the population can just create matter with no sweat, then why are they heisting, why not just make a shitton of gold?" etc etc.

Asking yourself about crime leads you to ask yourself about law enforcement — which then leads you to ask how those interactions impact everybody else and what sort of unique cultural norms might evolve as a response!

Like. How would a population that includes animal-form shapeshifters handle a murder investigation where the victim/suspect might’ve genuinely been confused with a non-sapient Forest Creature? What customs might this society invent to proactively prevent tragic accidents?

What does burglary look like in a world where people can casually teleport? What’s to stop a guy from warping into a political figure’s home to casually reenact the ides of March? If the teleportation magic allows a person to kidnap people bring passengers, what stranger-danger rules might’ve popped up to keep folks from randomly getting yoinked??

Fantasy often falls flat because the author just added fantasy elements on top of the normal world. For depth and grounding, those elements need to be integrated into the world.

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

He wants to settle an argument with Jazz once and for all; are the Fentons more Irish in their ancestry, or are they Danish?

Meanwhile, one of the many, many alarms the Justice League has start going off. Someone's DNA just matched with two registered members.

Wally West and Zatanna Zatara.

Which means a sibling turned in that test.

If Wes looks too closesly, sometimes he sees the world as a cartoon and himself as a nameless background character. And sometimes when he looks, it's a comic instead, himself a still image on a page created by an incomprehensible hand. And sometimes when he looks, there's just words. Words and words and words and maybe the occasional image and so many words on a background of blue. And when Wes looks there, he sees where he came from, and he knows he was not here before. They put him here. They saw a face and They made it his and the left him here without past or future and barely present because he was never even really rea-

Wes Weston makes a point of not thinking too hard about where he came from.

The character should have had a better telegraphed/foreshadowed/established method of survival.

The situation should have been better scaled to the methods of survival that the character had on them.

Something about the character's survival is genuinely less emotionally impactful than a character death would have been.