The first thing I thought about when I started considering how to work on the problem of my failing creativity was how to attack the problem. As I write this I am watching previews of the movies of 2024 and thinking about the stuff that is coming out and what that means about what sells and what people supposedly want and what, above all else, are the standard narratives. I think the first step for me is to avoid falling into expectations and to think about the stories I write as natural things again and, as such, begin to create narratives that are linked to a space and place that is real vs. expected.
I am working on being a better version of myself, so I need to be thinking about what it means to write a better version of a story.