Where to take your character (or yourself) when you feel stuck

500 words, twenty minutes, a character free-write, a scene: whatever it takes to get us to the page

Hello dear writers,

Today, we will write. 500 words, twenty minutes, a scene: whatever it takes to get us to the page.

Today, I’m thinking about the grocery store. If we go there alone, nothing usually happens, except our thinking, which might also be 50% of everything. And yet so many choices take place. And those choices shape, in seemingly small ways, …