This story gave me quite a headache at first. 25 ideas?! I panicked. Where am I going to come up with so many that haven’t already been done to death?? So I pushed it off until the last minute, all the while stressing about it to no end. With a little bit of creativity, though, the piece turned out pretty well. I guess a requisite skill in the magazine industry is to be able to sell anything with your writing.

From our senior editor Meghann:

Just wanted to say that you did a really great job with this one! I’ve read a million of these stories, but your tips made it interesting and fresh!

See the whole slideshow at Redbookmag.com.