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NEW STORY PROBLEMS? CHANGE THE SETTING

New story problems are like cooking a chicken. You know how you’d like it to turn out, but that’s not how it always works. When it’s your Christmas story, and it’s December 24th, you’ve got work to do. Start with your story.

RESOLVE PROBLEMS BEFORE ADDING MORE

Before taking advice on resolving problems look hard at who is offering advice.

SOLVING PROBLEMS ON THE PAGE IS REAL LIFE?

Whether you think solving problems is ‘your thing’ or not, it is. To do it the right way, start with a blank page. No, not the proverbial blank page, canvas, or slate, but a real life blank page. Call it a screen, whatever. It’s blank. Now what?

PROBLEM SOLVERS: WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT PROBLEMS?

Problem solvers without a problem eventually become a problem. If they could keep it to themselves, they wouldn’t be a problem, but when does that happen? For example, the self-described ‘people person’ who turns into a nasty troll when people disagree with them. We’ve all got ninety-nine problems lined up in prioritized, triaged, next-one-up order, […]

LIFE QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY FLATTENED CHICKEN

    To flatten a chicken use a pair of meat scissors and cut along one side of the backbone from the neck to the parson’s nose. Open up the bloody carcass and do the same on the other side.   Use scissors instead of a knife to avoid the ‘blade slipped on a rib […]