Part of my process is admittedly reading a lot of trash between working on chapters. I go and seek out popcorn material. I crawl through webtoon for low grade villainess isekai and reincarnation dramas and read maybe 20 chapters before getting bored. I find shit tier manga and read every chapter. Every anime season I find the most mid show in the lineup and eye it for a rainy day.
This part of the process is so important though because I walk away thinking hard about how I would Make It Good and that's the secret sauce for really stretching the brain muscles
