Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26006155-20200110013134

Jacky720 wrote: Precisely.

I'm talking about situations with multiple working solutions. So that is not the example I am looking for. Well, I would treat each seemingly working solution as a story path to research, seeing how well each holds up as time goes on and more clue and insite into them are revealed.

I wouldn't discount an idea until there was a compelling case against it.

I would follow each branching idea until the branch broke, backtrack, then see if progress could be made trying a different set of assumptions.

9 times out of 10, the branch breaks when you test it. Failure follows failure, until finally one possibility does stand out from the rest as being much more plausible. Then you try to move forward using that assumption, and see if the story continues, or if it dead ends without a satisfying resolation.