A number of published authors I’ve talked to say it doesn’t exist. I think that answer crushes a lot of people. You think things like “that’s why he’ll be successful and I won’t” and the like. That doesn’t do anybody any good.

I mention it because of my latest podcast scene. I usually write the rough draft in a day, this one took me 4! Well, that’s not exactly true, I wrote it today. The other 3  days were spent figuring out what I wanted to say. This is the root of writers block.

You have to figure out what is holding you back, and tackle that problem. The hard part is working through it. This is why a lot of people work on other projects when they come down with writers block. I don’t like that approach much, because I never want to go back to it later.

This time, the culprit was length. I try to keep these podcasts down to so many episodes (we don’t want to go over 10 for any one story). Basically, I wanted to rush it. I took notes for days trying to figure that out.

When I get it, I use charts where you put something in the middle of a page and work your ideas outward like a web. It helps me figure out what is well thought out and working, and what isn’t. Anyone use different methods?