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The Writing Trick That Unstuck My Novel
Ever hit that moment in a story where everything just… stops?
You’re tens of thousands of words into a novel and suddenly the story feels stuck. The momentum disappears. The next chapter won’t come. The whole thing feels like a pill stuck in your throat.
In today’s Wordslinger 10-Shot, J. Kevin Tumlinson shares the writing breakthrough that helped him restart a novel he abandoned nearly two years ago—and the surprisingly simple storytelling technique that unlocked the entire book.
The answer wasn’t rewriting the premise or scrapping the story.
It was adding a subplot.
In this episode, Kevin…
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