how do you come up with an original story, rather a narrative that has this world/reality in mind but in a sense of something different
there's 2 ways: you can wait until the story comes to you, which sometimes it does, or, if you don't think you have time to wait for that, then you can use another trick which is to write down 10 story ideas and make half of them bad on purpose. by purposely making half of them bad, half of them will be good. sometimes the bad half is good