One trick to generate ideas you can try is role reversal.
Here’s how it works.
All you do is to take a pair of characters in a familiar setting and swap their roles.
Here are a few to get you started.
Cat chasing a dog
Student teaching the teacher
Child parenting the parent
enforce going any further, take a moment and try and think up some other pairs.
Now let’s have a look at the cat and dog situation and see what ideas that might spark.
What might the dog be thinking?
What might the cat be saying?
How might it be different if you changed the expressions on the charatcer’s faces? Feel free to copy the above image and try this out for yourself right now.
What’s next?
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