What is one of your bad habits? Invent a character who has the bad habit, but a much worse case of it than you have. Write a story where this habit gets your character into trouble.
Your move, writer.
Start with the habit of leaving things until the last minute, then push it to absurd extremes. One path: a wedding planner who books every vendor, including the officiant, forty minutes before the ceremony, and the story becomes a slapstick countdown of near-misses and improvised solutions. Another path: a lighthouse keeper who always means to fix the lamp tomorrow, and one stormy night tomorrow finally runs out, turning procrastination into a quiet, tense survival tale about the cost of delay. Or go gentler and funnier: a dragon who keeps putting off cleaning his hoard, until the clutter buries his only treasure map and he has to enlist a skeptical knight to help him dig through decades of junk, trading fire-breathing menace for cheerful chaos and an unlikely friendship.
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