Reverse Engineering - What's Your Thing of the Week?

Reverse engineering to figure out the principles that they use. You can lift this principle from writing excuses, and probably any number of books on writing or world building. If you dissect things that have influenced you, and you find that as a thing you love, now that's a principle you own. And so if you need to write a love scene, maybe go watch some love scenes to get your head into that space,. pull that feeling from your inspiration so that you can then feed it into your own work.