Savannah Gilbo
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3,356 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Savannah Gilbo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For quite a while.
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But she had a full scene by scene roadmap, like we talked about earlier in tip number one.
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And once she was able to get back into her writing, everything was right there waiting for her.
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So she finished that draft in about six months of actual writing time.
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Some of that was before the baby, some of it was after the baby.
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And then shortly after that, she got multiple offers of representation and ended up signing with her dream agent and her.
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Novel is now out on submission.
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There's also Jackie, who wrote a lot of her novel in the smallest slivers of time that her life would allow, at her kids' swim lessons, in the drive-thru, and sometimes literally just a sentence or two at a time.
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And those tiny efforts all added up and created her debut novel, The Halo Sinner's Daughter, that she finished in about eight months and has since published.
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I will link to that episode in the
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Show notes too.
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And then lastly, I want to tell you about Stephanie who had a baby while working on her second novel.
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And while she was caring for her newborn, there were writing sessions where the exhaustion and the interruptions left room for only a hundred or so words at a time.
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But instead of deciding that those words weren't enough, she used things like placeholders and little breadcrumb notes and some of the things we talked about today to keep herself moving.
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Through her draft.
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Now, what I want you to notice about all three of the stories I just shared with you is that none of their schedules were perfect.
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And their kids didn't just stop needing them.
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They didn't have a ton of time to just sit down and write for hours.
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But what they did have was a plan, a roadmap of how their novel was going to unfold, and the courage to keep coming back to their desk even though life kept getting in the way.
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And for most people, that is.
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