Feed your head.
Follow the breadcrumb trail left for you by other writers.
Write down their names — who led you to who.
Kafka > Carver > Murakami > Mitchell etc.
Trace as far back and forwards as you can.
Read your way from one writer to another.
Branch out in any direction.
How far down the rabbit hole can you go?
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