31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers—Day 29: Develop Your Curiosity.

Day 29 — Develop Your Curiosity.

If you’ve ever watched children play, you know how integral curiosity is to them.

The inevitable question—Why?—is part of every conversation as is their insatiable need to take things apart and see how they work.

Writing requires that level of curiosity. We have to be open to the world, to people, to events and circumstances, and see what we can learn from them. Otherwise, we are just writing the same thing over and over again: the same characters, the same situa...