Question 1066: How to Stop Spinning Your Wheels

jdsawyer Learning / Writing March 8, 2023 March 8, 2023

Caine asks:
On episode 1063 of The Everyday Novelist you stated the following:

“If you lead with analysis beyond at any layer beyond the practical, your asking for years and years and years of spinning your wheels, it will not work”

I feel strongly that I’m in this zone right now. I’m spinning my wheels, if the above is not the exact issue, then it’s a large portion of what I’m going through.

Can you please go deeper into this point? What exactly is happening (in a general sense, since you don’t live in my head)? How am I contributing to it? What do I do to stop it?

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