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Professor asked us to write a short story starting from a quote by Anne Tyler of all people. It reads "Once upon a time, there was a woman who realized she'd turned into the wrong person". What can I do with this?

>> No.14219659

>>14219654
>Once upon a time,
Ew
what ideas do you have so far OP?

>> No.14219663

write about a broad who is a whore and then wishes she was a stereotypical wife with kids

>> No.14219667

>>14219654
Write the plot of the hentai "Metamorphosis."

>> No.14219668

>>14219659
I honestly have none. I thought I could push some bullshit about an egotistical middle-aged woman climbing her way to power through questionable means and losing her family and kids in the process, or this >>14219663

>> No.14219671

>>14219654
Make it a story about a chance encounter. A literal "turning into" as in bumping into someone by accident. The wrong person could be lots of things. Chinatown gangster. An ex she had been thinking of the day before. Someone who challenges her notion of the world. A guy who looks exactly like Borges but is actually a mafia boss. Whatever.

>> No.14219678

>>14219654
Make it about a transsexual man who decides to detransition.

>> No.14219687

>>14219654
>Once upon a time, there was a woman who realized she'd turned into the wrong person
Write about a tranny who regrets chopping its dick off.

>> No.14219695

Write about Edelgard, from the critically acclaimed video game "Fire Emblem: Three Houses" for the Nintendo Switch.

>> No.14219710

>>14219654
Read "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" by JD Salinger. It's a short story about this same theme

>> No.14219717

>>14219654
Is your professor a 50-something woman? The quote's from Back When We Were Grownups and it looks like it's a 'midlife crisis for women' book.

>> No.14219719

>>14219671
Do this, but make it an ex-lover she blew off in high school. They talk for an afternoon and she's smitten with him. Then she tries to fuck him but he rejects her because he's married and just forgot to wear his wedding ring that day

>> No.14219723

>>14219717
>Is your professor a 50-something woman?
Yes

>> No.14219820

>>14219678
This

>> No.14220153

>>14219654
If you want to win college, manipulate liberal teachers obvious biases. Write a story about some tranny or something -- EASY A. College is easy, its all about jerking off your professors ego. Just figure out what they want and give it to them.

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>>14219678
This

>> No.14220708

>>14220153
Unless you are learning real things.

>> No.14220740

Use talktotransformer.com to generate the whole thing. Put in the the prompt, generate text then use the last sentence or two to generate more. Eg:

Once upon a time, there was a woman who realized she'd turned into the wrong person. She abandoned her identity and became nothing but an object, stripped of much of her humanity and ultimately making the world a poorer place for it. A rare reason to laugh.
"But I made you happy for my sake. Even if the Crimson Princess doesn't remember me, it's alright. I… even if you can't remember me, there will still be a place for me within this world." "Your whole world… is but just a foundation. Each time a new Princess is born, that Princess will open a hole in the world. But where does this hole go?...

Well, the truth is, the Cloud in your heart is the path that, on its own, leads nowhere.

Sometimes you go off the path. Sometimes you are lost on it.

But, we all want our princess. So let us bring her to life, shall we?"

>> No.14220749

House-wife that moonlights as a serial rapist. Kept woman by day, psychotic criminal by night.

>> No.14220756

>>14219663
this was pretty much my first thought when reading that quote
I've spent way too much time on /r9k/

>> No.14220798

>>14219654
Once upon a time, there was a woman who realized she'd turned into the wrong person. "A magical wand is a dangerous thing", she thought and screamed, because the voice in her head was not human at all.

>> No.14220820

>>14219654
A woman sitting in a waiting room, she just got her aids diagnosis. She wishes she didn't let black guys fuck her ass.

>> No.14220836

Because she had turned into a woman to begin with, who are always wrong.

>> No.14220863

Once upon a time, there was a woman who realized she'd turned into the wrong at the moment she sat in a black sofa.

>> No.14221017

>>14220708
Whats real to you? Endless meaninglessly abstracted equations? Sounds like autism to me

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>>14219667
Fantastic idea and guaranteed results in University as long as the person grading it isn't a degenerate like myself.

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>>14219654
Make it about a sex-positive feminist repenting and coming to Christ.

>> No.14222151

>>14219654
Write about how she passed up all these meaningful opportunities to instead browse an imahe board

>> No.14222164

>>14219663
>>14219667
>>14219678
>>14219687
>>14220749
>>14220820
>>14220836
>>14222030
holy FUCKING SHIT when did /lit/ become so fucking based and redpilled??????

>> No.14222167

>>14219654
It’d be a great opportunity to write a sarcastic, anti-feminist parody of Kafka’s metamorphosis.

>> No.14223598

>>14219654
Retelling of the metamorphasis by Kafka but more realistic and horrific

>> No.14224321

>>14219663
first thought i had lmao this>>14219654

>> No.14224338

>>14219654
She was he who realized she is actually a he from the begining= trannysuicide

>> No.14224350

>>14219671
This is what you should do OP. Fuck your professor's obvious bait. Have the MC be a milquetoast protagonist and literally bump into some zany character and get mixed up in their zany conflict.

>> No.14224366

Start by letting some chad quote the quote, call it gay in the second line and then just write a short story about the chad.

>> No.14224382

>>14220153
Unless you mayor at a real program, at a real university in a real country. Only the US is this fucked up, in the West universities are still places where you learn things.

>> No.14224800

>>14219654
>>14219654
> This woman, oddly enough, was a professor.
> She was paid to teach creative writing skill to hopeful artists at a great institution.
> She knew there must be a mistake; this was clearly not who she was!
> With no other choice (as this woman wasn’t bright, right or wrong) she went about her teaching job.
> Her name is (the professor) and she thinks people are starting to catch on that she had turned into someone she shouldn’t be!

>> No.14224901

>>14219671
Also make her tsundere.

>> No.14224915

>>14219654
write about a tranny who chopped her tits off and sewed a carrot to her clit who realizes she got memed by the jews and offs herself

>> No.14224982

Perfect intro for terrifying body horror.

>> No.14225002

>>14224982
Could do a female version of The Metamorphosis.

Philip Roth did a book called The Breast which is a similar idea, though it's about a guy who turns into a tit.

>> No.14225080

>>14220153
I did this once for a class unrelated to my major and earned extremely high grades on every exam and essay, only to somehow end up with an A-.