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- Tip -
Sleep on it
Nighttime is a much busier time than you may think. It is a time when ideas travel freely everywhere around the body, and the room, and then come back in a new order.
A night of sleep often produces an answer to something we feel uncertain about in a story.
Sleeping on it is an important tip for storytellers.
(You can also put-stories-away-to-sit-in-the-dark.)
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