not to overthink and just start writing This is advice that has been so useful to me as a writer, too. If there's something on the page, you can edit it (later)!

19. Stephen King once said that his muse is a man who lives in the basement. Do you have a muse? I found this to be SUCH a strange anecdote to include in the question?! Maybe it's a famous SK quote that the question writer expects people to know? Anyway, I looked it up, and at least the full context makes slightly more sense than just "a (metaphorical??) guy in Stephen King's basement." (To me, anyway!). XD