Hmmm... not too sure if I'll ever apply that XS
I'm not the best fiction writer.
I've tried my hand at NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), which comes around every November, but have always failed miserably around the 5000-10000 words mark (the goal being friggin 50,000 words XO).
My last one was about a roomba, and some other IoT appliances, all inhabited with AI and who spent most of their time doing their jobs while chatting over an intranet. The Roomba eventually decides to explore, and accidentally triggers a virus that's been hibernating in the system. And suddenly they've got 2 new entities that are seemingly against each other trying to convince all the other appliances (including air condition systems, a mini-society of security drones who venerate their "mother" the Net Security AI, and a couple of Roomba's and previously deactivated armed security drones who've now gone online under the orders of the more aggressive of the two new entities) to join them, yet strangely enough some of the appliances don't seem entirely "themselves" anymore...
They also try to uncover the truth about what happened to the Master's, who haven't been back in Ages (though as far as I got, they never uncovered enough information for the reader to determine what "Ages" meant for a IoT appliance...)
Yes, My idea of fiction is very out there XP
Feel free to try another option. Sometimes it's nice to continue someone else's train of thought or to use an established character. That's what I've found anyway.