Savannah Gilbo
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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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I want you to treat your stuckness as a clue and follow that clue to figure out what's going wrong.
Again, I'm going to link to an episode where I talk about the three most common places people get stuck.
If you feel like this is the myth that's really holding you back, then definitely go listen to that episode.
And then what I want you to do is solve that problem before you make your stuckness mean that you're bad or your idea is bad or that you're just not cut out to be a writer because that just isn't true.
All right, so those are the five beliefs that I see holding writers back from finishing their drafts all the time.
And I want you to notice that all five of these myths pull your attention away from the work your story actually needs.
They tell you to add more time, make more effort, find more information, or polish things that don't need polishing instead of identifying the specific decision, page, or problem that's keeping your draft from moving forward.
And again, this is why you can care so deeply about your novel, work on it for years, and still feel as though you're getting nowhere.
I see it happen all the time.
You're probably just trying to solve the wrong problem or trying to solve too many parts of your novel at once.
And I want you to remember that finishing a draft becomes much more manageable and enjoyable when you have a process that helps you identify and execute the most useful job in front of you.
Sometimes that job is going to be deciding what your protagonist wants, why they want it, what the conflict will be like in your story.
Other times it's figuring out what's going to happen in the very next scene.
And sometimes it's just writing an imperfect scene so you can keep moving and refine it later.
Again, the goal isn't to know every single thing before you start or to get every page in front of you right the first time.
It's just to have enough clarity to take the next meaningful step and to know what to look at when you get stuck.
And once you start approaching your story this way, finishing stops feeling like a mysterious ability that other writers possess and you don't.
Instead, it becomes a series of story decisions that you can make and problems that you can solve one at a time.
And if you want my help with this, if you want to get your hands on my step-by-step process that I use with other writers to develop their ideas, map out their story, and write their first draft all the way to the end, then that's exactly what I teach inside Notes to Novel.
Enrollment's opening again very soon.
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