When you don't know what's next

There are ages and seasons when the question "what's next?" has no answer, and everyone around you seems to have theirs ready. Choosing a career, changing direction, starting over: the crossroads feels like urgency, but it almost never is.

Writing at the crossroads has a measured advantage: you reason more wisely about other people's problems than your own, and stepping back from the self — writing to yourself in the second person, for instance — shrinks that asymmetry (Grossmann & Kross, 2014). The articles in this moment are tools for thinking direction in writing, without gurus and without personality tests.