Episode 21 - The Sticking Point (or, why it took my three weeks to rewrite a single scene)

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Have you ever been writing and suddenly, you CAN’T write anymore and you don’t understand why? Maybe you just hit a Sticking Point!

In this episode, I talk about this notion to better understand what’s happening when you can no longer write and what to do to keep on progressing, using as an example what I recently live while editing my second (agented) novel.

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Recorded on June 8th, 2026

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