Ways to spark your writing again!! PART TWO
─ .✦ write a character who realizes they've been performing happiness for so long that they've forgotten what the real thing feels like
─ .✦ let a character find out the person who raised them was younger, at the time, than the character is now
─ .✦ write two siblings who never fought as kids and are somehow strangers as adults, neither one able to point to when it started
─ .✦ a character finally gets to say the thing they rehearsed for years, and the moment arrives too small for how big it felt in their head
─ .✦ let a character realize their independence was never a strength, just a wound that got good at hiding
─ .✦ write someone who spent their whole life being the exception to the rule, and finally has to be ordinary in front of someone who loves them
─ .✦ a character discovers the version of the story they were told isn't the version that actually happened, and has to decide which one they'll keep believing
─ .✦ let a character give someone else the childhood they never had, and grieve their own while doing it
─ .✦ write a character who finally stops being the peacekeeper, and watches what the group looks like without them holding it together
─ .✦ a character realizes the thing they call loyalty was actually just fear of being alone
─ .✦ let someone find the exact place their life split into "before" and "after," and realize they've been standing in "after" for years without noticing
─ .✦ write a character who was taught survival instead of living, and the first time someone shows them the difference
─ .✦ a character finally says no to something, for the first time in their life, and has to sit with how much it terrifies them
