Writer Unleashed
Writer Unleashed is a weekly podcast for fiction and memoir writers. It's a deep dive into story techniques, writing craft, and the mindsets that help you write with unstoppable momentum and create stories readers can't put down.
Writer Unleashed
285. What Overthinking Is Costing Your Novel
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Nanci Panuccio
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Season 7
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Whether you're staring at a blank page or halfway through a draft, overthinking can bring your novel to a standstill. Different symptoms, same root cause: both writers are trying to solve problems they're not ready to solve yet, overthinking to the point of paralysis. In this episode, I share a four-part framework to help you stop chasing certainty and start getting more clarity and direction for your story.
Links Mentioned In This Episode:
One Day by David Nicholls
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand