I have spent a good chunk of the past two days a little stuck. It’s a day job thing so I can’t just roll a twenty-sided die or add vampires (sadly!) but it does, in the end, have something to do with writing.
The problem was that I wasn’t 100% clear on the problem. Usually, more research is supposed to clarify issues, but as I dove deeper the assignment made less sense, not more.
How to escape this quandary? In the end, I wrote myself a path out.
My approach? Examining the challenge from multiple angles, breaking it down into pieces as bite-sized as I could make them, and outlining whatever ideas came to mind until they stopped being terrible and started to be interesting.
Next thing I knew, I was on my way.
This happened to be a day job problem but I find the same strategy also applies to fiction. In case you, too, find yourself stuck.
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J.R. Johnson 
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