Julie and I have been offering up our monthly b.read.crumbs wisdom for four years now. We’ve written from random prompts, prompts generated by a deck of writing cards, tarot cards, fairy tales, and at one point we grabbed random words from the air and wrote about them.

During these years, we’ve been able to have in-person discussion as well as phone and email chats with each other about all sorts of things, including b.read.crumbs. This month we were at a writing conference, chilling in the hotel...