I'm reminded of a T. S. Eliot quote: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." 
(Or the more modern Jobs version, "Good artists copy; great artists steal.") Read stories, watch stories, think of things in your own life that could become stories. Take other stories and change them around, improve them, and expand them.
In MMO RP, I usually think of, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if X happened?" and run with that. I'll often riff off others' stories in an MMO situation, as I tend to work better when improvising than I do when planning in advance. In tabletop gaming or writing, like Warren, I get some scenes or concepts in my head that I think would be really cool, then figure out ways for the story to get there.
One practice you can try is to come up with a random situation and a random tone, then write a short story around that. A fun random generator for this sort of thing is at Seventh Sanctum, though you might have to massage some of its results to make them workable.
(Or the more modern Jobs version, "Good artists copy; great artists steal.") Read stories, watch stories, think of things in your own life that could become stories. Take other stories and change them around, improve them, and expand them.In MMO RP, I usually think of, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if X happened?" and run with that. I'll often riff off others' stories in an MMO situation, as I tend to work better when improvising than I do when planning in advance. In tabletop gaming or writing, like Warren, I get some scenes or concepts in my head that I think would be really cool, then figure out ways for the story to get there.
One practice you can try is to come up with a random situation and a random tone, then write a short story around that. A fun random generator for this sort of thing is at Seventh Sanctum, though you might have to massage some of its results to make them workable.
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((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))
