This is an awesome paragraph from book called, Writing Magic, by Gail Carson Levine about what to do when you get stuck while writing a story. she says that she makes herself write down twelve options of what could happen next
I tell myself that I'm going to write down stupid options as well as excelent ones. I write down the stupid one because they are brave. This sounds crazy but ,it's true. Whenever I start a list, my stupid ideas surge forward, but the useable ones hang back. They're shy and want to see how the stupid ones get treated. When they see me behave respectfully to the dopes, they tip toe out into the open. I snag them and write them down, too.
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