One of the best writing exercises to cultivate your storytelling, visualization, and emotional resonance as a writer is to take a mundane thing—
a pen, for example—
and craft a story about it.
Most authors and artists use this technique. You have a pen. Now the pen is your character. How far can you go with it? Can you use it to make its journey emotional? Can you use it to make it a tragic story, a gripping one, or something else? Maybe it's a lost pen with a history, from hand to hand, watching moments that changed lives. Maybe it's a pen that has written love letters, legal documents, or stories that never saw the light of day.
The objective is to challenge yourself to look beyond the object—
to reach the most inner depths of emotion and imagination. Such practice not only makes you a more capable writer, but a more emotionally smart person, capable of better seeing value (even in small things), and a more effective storyteller overall.
Experiment, and you will find the worlds that you can create from nothing but a pen.
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This is a great exercise, Somay Gupta! I'd done it a few times, and I'm developing a script where I took a subway train and built a story around it.