I discuss the success and failure of different ways of getting myself to write, spend 15 minutes thinking of possible answers to a plot question (while you also work), then come back with a quick summing-up and a book recommendation.

Sound for the 15 minutes: birds in the breeze in the cherry tree (mostly linnets and chaffinches, I think).

Books mentioned: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, and The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington.

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