Great advice! I especially like "If another story is getting in the way, write it" in light of a personal aversion I have to writers saying "It just came to me." Stories, especially personal stories, are not autonomous and don't just "arrive." They are in us, always. We just may not yet have found the right way to release them. Ted Hughes' infamously gross statement about how Plath approached poetry like a carpenter who, if aiming for a table, was perfectly content to get a chair, might sound like an apt (if condescending) metaphor, but, like, who are you to speak for her? If any writers out there are trying to write a table story and end up with a chair, that's fine, but don't give up on the table! It's in there somewhere! Overall fabulous advice.