User blog comment:Freedom killer167/I'm new and just want to know/@comment-6761334-20130731131944

I agree with writing something that scares you. I would add that it you can find a way to take something mundane and mix it into your story it can be a very effective technique.

Also, you could read several of your favorite pastas .... and then writing something that is entirely unlike them. At least for me, if i try to emulate something I like I tend to fail (This might be why so many spin pastas are not very good. It is difficult to capture the essence of soemone else's story.). If I incorporate a theme, or a setting, or minute detail into an entirely different story it tends to go far better.