today's writing lesson

If you're grappling with a problem in your story, and then you think up a solution, and then decide (as you should) that no, that solution is too easy, so you toss in a complication, but you still don't quite know how to make it work . . .

. . . then the answer is in fact to toss in another complication.

Throw plot twists at it until it works¹, sez I.



1 -- Method not advised for all stories. But it works for some.