In writing, sometimes you just have to get back to basics. I’ve been banging my head against the wall for some time. It turns out that the answer to my problem was pretty simple. In fact, I posted it to my Instagram feed:

Courtesy of My New Dry Erase Board

Something Goes Wrong! Of course! That’s just what I needed. It seems so obvious now, but the truth is it took my friend and fellow writer Dmitri Del Castillo to help ferret it out. He’s great at that sort of thing.

So this concept—Something Goes Wrong—has sent me in a productive direction. Hopefully I’ll have something specific to report in the near future.