Because I was having a hard time writing, I ran with the first idea I was able to come up with and tried to have fun writing! The story I came up with featured a lonely protagonist who stumbled across a seemingly healthy, but three-headed kitten. Though she is initially a bit scared and disgusted by it, she takes it in and becomes endeared to it. The local shelter tells her they can’t take it in, so she does so herself, having gained a new friend.
The genres I chose to rewrite in were Sci Fi, Horror, and Mystery
Because I found myself writing so many extra words and taking so long on my first story, I just wrote synopses for each genre. I think this decision was good, since fully writing these stories would have been more time consuming than the extra detail was worth. I still got a very strong visual in my head of each and knew the plots well.
Of all these genre stories, I enjoyed the Sci Fi the most. It was also the most similar in plot to the original, but the genre allowed for changes in setting and character that made for an even stronger narrative. A lonely apartment could become an isolated spacecraft, and a strange, mutated kitten could become an alien creature. I was immediately very excited to visualize this story.