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Want a Different, Unusual Story? Try a Genre “Stone Soup”
Do you need something different to write? Your usual genre of choice isn’t sparking your creative itch?
You’ve looked through other genres, but they don’t fire them up, either?
Do you want to stay in your genre lane but stick out from everyone else writing in it?
(Why do I sound like a TV infomercial?)
This might help.
There’s a folktale about Stone Soup:
A traveler convinces a village to contribute ingredients to a pot of soup, claiming that he has a magic stone that will make the soup taste better. As each villager adds their own ingredients, the soup becomes more flavorful and satisfying, demonstrating how collaboration and combining different elements can create something greater than the sum of its parts.
(Credit: Automate AI)
The genre you start with is your magic stone.
Add one (or more) to it. Mixing other genres with it could spark up an interesting story idea — even one that sticks out as unique, adds flavor. Changes things up, and makes your story more interesting than the pack
