Thinking Different

As we make mistakes, we eliminate certain ways of reaching our goal. Mistakes encourage finding a new solution. 

If your initial idea did not work, you are more likely to take a different stand and think of ideas you wouldn’t have thought if that didn’t happen.

Many questions are not directed at the story but at one’s own writing process, like when to plan, when to brainstorm, and when to write.

This also includes one’s own little experiments in the writing process.

• Rewrite an inconsistency to fit the story. For example, give the suspect who went for a walk in the storm muddy shoes and/or a damp jacket.
• Make the implausible plausible. If a character is acting out of character, rewrite the scene to fit the character actions and speech with th...