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• Include a strange liquid that is important to your plot.
• Give a character an important article of clothing.
• Make one of your characters fall in love with the villain.
• Give a character a sudden obsession for an entire chapter.
• Have one of your characters keep a journal.
• Make a character cry.
• Have a character reveal a terrifying secret.
• Introduce a character who only uses big words.
• Include someone speaking a foreign language in your next chapter.
• Include a body of water that your characters must cross.
• Make something blow up.
• Include something hidden under a rock.
• Have one of your characters receive an anonymous note.
• Send your characters to the worst party ever.
• Make one of your characters really moody.
• Have one of your characters enter an eating competition.
• Include a sea creature in your next chapter.
• Add a scene where an ordinary act has unexpected repercussions.
• Include a flashback in your next chapter.
• Send your characters out for a meal together.
• Write a scene you'd never thought you'd write.
• Give one of your characters a mental breakdown.
• Include a cliffhanger at the end of your next chapter.
• Include a piece of technology that goes berserk.
• Have a character wake up with a mysterious accent.
• Include as many puns (or similes) as possible in your next chapter.
• Put a character in a situation that you were in yesterday.
• Have one of your characters go missing for a chapter.
• Write a scene where a character talks with his or her conscience.
• Make your characters play a board game.
• Add a scene where a character stumbles into a secret room.
• Have a non-important character say the most memorable quote you can think of.
• Have a character to talk to him- or herself in the mirror.
• Include a parade or a circus in your next chapter.
• Add a very descriptive breakfast scene.
• Make a character faint.
• Add a character grinning mischievously because...
• Write a scene where your characters have a deadline.
• Kill off a character.