Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t always just sit down here and write stuff. I’m often hard up for ideas, staring at the blank page like anyone. In moments like those, it helps tremendously to stare at a giant outline in my todo manager, grab something that looks good, and go for it.

We all need writing prompts, don’t we? I blame school for this. We went our whole lives creating what other people told us to create, and then we went into the wider world and could do… whatever we want. And so I have tried to account for this by building a separate routine that creates the structure necessary for writing all this.