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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Now, here's what I want you to notice about the writer in this scenario.
The advice itself isn't what made this writer stall out.
What made this writer stall out is that they're trying to draft a whole novel without enough clarity around the story's biggest questions.
And that's what made them stall out.
All right, so what do I mean by that?
Well, they had no idea who their story was really about.
They didn't know what that person wanted, why they wanted it, what was standing in their way, the type of conflict they were going to face in the middle of the story.
And they didn't know what was going to change from beginning to end.
And so without this kind of clarity, what happened is that every time they sat down to write, they had all of these decisions in front of them, right?
And every decision was literally a guess.
What happens when we guess all the time?
Well, we get exhausted, right?
Guessing gets exhausting after a while.
And that's why the writer in this scenario tends to run out of steam.
All right, now let's talk about scenario number two because there is another way that this advice can backfire and it's almost in the opposite direction.
Because some writers never run into the problem that we just talked about.
And that is for the simple reason that they never actually start writing.
So they hear the advice to just start writing and they nod and they're thinking, okay, I agree with that in theory.
And then they get freaked out because they don't feel ready to start.
So they immediately go looking for one more thing that will make starting feel safer.
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