J.A.W.D.
The only [couple of] thing[s] that I can think of as an answer[s] to this question would be:
Write about what strikes you, whether it's something completely outlandish and obscene (like an overtly schizophrenic cop who delights in taking joyrides with his buddy, the number he calls Forty-Ninety-Teen-Hundred in his cop car with the siren on full blast) or something fun and light and funny (like a dog whose owner decides to spend the next sixteen days playing fetch with the dog and then the dog ends up being the owner of the owner) or something serious and dark (like about the actors in a silent detective movie from the 1920s who actually do the work of their roles in the dead of night). Write about what strikes you. But one thing that you must never, ever shy away from is research. I cannot stress this enough. If your story has even some teeny tiny bit of a realistic element that you're not so sure about, look it up, and then look it up again somewhere different. The last thing that you need is a reader to come up to you on the street and be like, 'That's not how the school system in Indonesia is. Bastard.' And you feel bad and stop writing for fear of making errors.
Write about what strikes you, whether it's something completely outlandish and obscene (like an overtly schizophrenic cop who delights in taking joyrides with his buddy, the number he calls Forty-Ninety-Teen-Hundred in his cop car with the siren on full blast) or something fun and light and funny (like a dog whose owner decides to spend the next sixteen days playing fetch with the dog and then the dog ends up being the owner of the owner) or something serious and dark (like about the actors in a silent detective movie from the 1920s who actually do the work of their roles in the dead of night). Write about what strikes you. But one thing that you must never, ever shy away from is research. I cannot stress this enough. If your story has even some teeny tiny bit of a realistic element that you're not so sure about, look it up, and then look it up again somewhere different. The last thing that you need is a reader to come up to you on the street and be like, 'That's not how the school system in Indonesia is. Bastard.' And you feel bad and stop writing for fear of making errors.
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