Could not possibly
Tell a story that could not possibly happen.
:- Doug.

Each time you tell, your story spirals you around, showing you more, and subtle, and nuanced.
:- Doug.
The object of your story is not to tell things done but to expand teller and hearer.
:- Doug.
Write about your reader: a portrait of the person at the time of reading or hearing. Write from the reader to you.
:- Doug.
Write a dream you had or make up one. Now have each character and object speak to the dreamer. Now the dreamer becomes each in turn (as a chair, I am seeing this, feeling this, thinking this…).
:- Doug.