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","someone in the story will suffer a steep fall from grace.","this story will play out entirely in a single room.","someone in the story has amnesia.","this story spans five generations of a family.","someone in the story will sigh meaningfully every five pages.","the flashbacks in this story will become vitally important.","the authority figures in the story cannot be trusted.","politics will play a major role in the story.","the cast of characters are all baby boomers in the story.","the cast of characters are all millennials in the story.","the protagonist is not introduced until the second third of the story.","the story is written entirely in dialogue.","the story is written in eye dialect.","two of the characters are in the middle of a divorce.","most of the story takes place over the course of a road trip."],"twist":["You should write the story in the second person POV.","The story is told by an unreliable narrator.","The story is set in the 1970s.","Someone else will leave a controversial will.","There is a dog... and the dog lives.","It's an unhappy ending.","An enemy will also become a valued friend.","An unexpected birth in the family will also change everything.","You should write the protagonist as an anti-villain.","The story is set in the 1940s.","A natural disaster will change everything.","Midway through the plot, all other problems will be foregotten in the face of a zombie apocalypse. ","Midway through the plot, the story will turn into a murder mystery.","Midway through the plot, the story will turn into a pscyhological trhiller.","Someone who was presumed dead will return. ","A case of mistaken identity will occur.","An unexpected gift will change the direction of the plot.","Someone's faulty memory will end up being the game-changer.","Midway through the plot, the story will turn into a ghost story.","It is revealed that two people were unknowingly switched at birth.","The story is a retelling of a Shakespearean tragedy.","The story is a retelling of a Greek drama.","One of the characters will turn out to be a hallucination.","You should write the story in reverse chronology.","The story is set in the 1920s.","The story is told non-linearly.","You should write the story as a piece of flash fiction.","The story takes place in two different timelines. ","You should base the protagonist on a famous historical figure.","The story's last scene revisits its opening scene from another perspective.","You should tell the story in epistolary form.","The story is told from the perspective of a child who doesn't fully comprehend what's happening.","You should tell the story in the form of a cookbook.","You should tell the story in the form of a diary. ","You should tell the story in a series of blog posts.","The story takes inspiration from the song, \"I'm a Little Teapot.\"","The first half of the story is a work of fiction being written by one of the characters.","The main character dies at the beginning of the story."],"category_id":114,"created_at":"2019-11-10T12:00:52.000Z","updated_at":"2019-11-10T12:00:52.000Z"}
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