I’m an avid Dear Abby reader, and I’ve always thought that I’d be good at writing something like that. The only problem seems to be that nobody wants my advice.

So I’ve decided to write down everything that’s been on my mind this week, put it in a safe, unlock the safe as soon as time travel is possible, answer my own questions, and send them back to today.

Here are the results of this experiment:

Dear future self: I’m in the process of writing a novel. I’m almost to the exciting part, but I can’t motivate myself to keep writing. Can you help?

Dear former self: Is this Addy Landon versus the S...