I finally hit 50,000 words on my novel draft after hearing a kid in a coffee shop

I was at The Daily Grind in Austin last week and overheard a teenager telling her friend about a character who could only tell the truth on Tuesdays. It made me realize I'd been overcomplicating my own magic system. I went home and just wrote the simplest version, and the words finally started flowing. Has anyone else had a random conversation unlock a block like that?

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craig.parker7d ago

Overheard a barista ranting about gnomes once.

noahs827d ago

That whole garden gnome thing got weird online a few years back. People were convinced they moved on their own at night. Read a bunch of forum posts where folks swore they'd come home to find them facing a different way. Probably just bored neighbors messing around, but it made people nuts.