Let bread dough rest for ten minutes before you shape it. The gluten relaxes while you wait, so it stops fighting you and stays where you put it.

Title each half-formed idea with the question it was trying to answer, not its topic. Later, you'll search for the question you were stuck on, and the note will surface.

Squint until the chair turns into one dark shape and the window into one light one. Then draw those two shapes first. Your eye stops arguing with the details.