From the course: Conquering Writer's Block

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- [Instructor] When Joanne Rendall and I were working on the second book in our "System Divine" series, we encountered many instances of writer's doubt. The plot gave us so much trouble, as second books in a series often do. We would think of a plot point that we loved, and then the next day determine it didn't work, or that it opened up a whole other set of problems. During one of our writing retreats, we were particularly stuck on a plot problem and so every morning, we walked around the block discussing it. And no matter what we did, how many times we thought we'd had a breakthrough, we'd always end up back where we started with the exact same problem. Until one day, we did have a breakthrough. Not on our particular plot problem. That came later. The breakthrough was about our process. Every morning, we would walk the same loop around the block, and it seemed like every morning, we would talk ourselves in circles about the plot. Hmm, coincidence? We didn't think so. Is it possible,…

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