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<blockquote data-quote="silentspace" data-source="post: 1237279" data-attributes="member: 14316">A couple things that've worked for me in creative writing courses:- Write about an important event in your life, but from someone else's perspective.&nbsp; Like your wedding from your wife's perspective.&nbsp; (Don't tell her though!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )&nbsp; When I've done this I've had insights I would never have had otherwise.- Take a genre that's not popularly accepted (penthouse letters is what I used, but anything works - sci-fi/fantasy, harlequin romances) and write a totally deadpan story, but take the tropes just a little too far.&nbsp; Make it a little self-conscious, but still straight enough to be taken seriously.&nbsp; A good example of this is John Gardner's 'Grendel'.Edit: Not that Beowulf is not popularly accepted, but when you get down to it, it's 'just' a fantasy story&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="silentspace, post: 1237279, member: 14316"] A couple things that've worked for me in creative writing courses: - Write about an important event in your life, but from someone else's perspective. Like your wedding from your wife's perspective. (Don't tell her though! :p ) When I've done this I've had insights I would never have had otherwise. - Take a genre that's not popularly accepted (penthouse letters is what I used, but anything works - sci-fi/fantasy, harlequin romances) and write a totally deadpan story, but take the tropes just a little too far. Make it a little self-conscious, but still straight enough to be taken seriously. A good example of this is John Gardner's 'Grendel'. Edit: Not that Beowulf is not popularly accepted, but when you get down to it, it's 'just' a fantasy story :D [/QUOTE]

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