27) Don't reject interesting stuff (things for characters to say and do, things to see, places to be, etc.) because the stuff doesn't conform to your idea. Change your idea to wrap it around the stuff.

28) If you have a story in mind to start with, leave it there. Ditto a "character."

29) Apropos the big issues, note that parents don't sit around getting heartbroken about abortion, they get heartbroken because they killed the baby.

30) Or, because the baby was born with fins for hands. It's the particular.

31) Sometimes it's useful to shut your eyes and imagine a scene as if it were in a movie; this helps flatten things and helps you "see" what the scene looks like.

32) Also, when doing the above, notice the things you notice in your own "real" life-like what's at the horizon, how the sun is in the sky, what kind of light's going on, the way the street, ground, grass, dirt looks, your interest in bushes, what's happening at the edges of things-buildings and signs and cars, the sounds of stuff going on around the scene-who's that wheezing? what's that rattle? are those leaves preparing to rustle? Etc.

33) No characters named Brooke or Amber.

34) Study steps 1,7,13,16a, and 24.

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