4 Favorite Shortcuts For My Writing Process

Mike Chen
6 min readJul 5, 2021
Some tips for when your writing brain feels like this

I got a lot of lovely feedback on my worldbuilding process, including some questions that inquired further about my writing process. So here are four more shortcuts I use for every project to help expedite creativity — either when you’re crunched for time, out of energy, or just mentally blocked. These probably won’t work for everyone, but hopefully you’ll be able to get one or two helpful items from the…

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Mike Chen

Mike Chen is a Bay Area-based writer of critically acclaimed science fiction. He also covers geek culture and used to cover the NHL. He loves dogs very much.