>>459617Start being mindful of what you're reading. Analyze what the characters are doing and what that shows about them.
"Hm, this scene would have been cooler if character X had told Y off instead of agreeing, it would have shown the religious side of X and would have started a conflict with Y."
"This line A just said is cool but it would have been cooler if it were worded like this" or "it would have been cooler if he had said something completely different."
You can start deriving your story from media you're consuming while fine tuning and adapting it to a different scenario. Your character Linda could be based on Y, but if she were faced with the situation in the example above, she would have been more combative - that's now part of her personality. Try to imagine how a story you know would change if a small detail changed, then incorporate it into your own story. I'm not saying to be fully derivative, just that you can take parts of what others have written as a guide, modify them and, them into your own story and see where it leads.