Looking for solutions

Most writing problems have more than one possible solution. The vast majority have more than two, or even three. Of the possible ways of solving a particular writing problem, one of them always looks easy and safe (often, this is the obvious one that one thinks of first); it’s not exciting, but it’s something the writer knows how to do and it will (the writer thinks) work.

All the other possible solutions look hard. They will require a new viewpoint character, or possibly a new protagonist. T...