Today, standoutbooks encourages writers to play a little and figure out what they can do without, inspired by these experimental works.
I know I had a lot of fun, and learned a lot, from writing Gu, a novella told in second person and cast in the form of a documentary about a fictional technology.
https://www.standoutbooks.com/writing-inspiration-experimental-books/
Disturbing and full of contradictions, a non-statist, secular, feminist region in Kurdish Syria struggles with ideology and the nearby war – and maybe gives us a hint of what some future governments might look like.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia-in-hell.html
Came across this via a post on Goodreads. May be of interest if you’re starting out freelancing, but already reasonably competent.