I Put This Book Aside for Two Years. Here’s What Happened

The Wordslinger Podcast · May 15, 2026 · 28m

Sometimes the best thing you can do for a stuck book is stop forcing it. In this episode of the Wordslinger Podcast, I’m back from a two-day drive from Texas to Pennsylvania, and somewhere along those long highway hours, a stalled novel finally started working again. A book I had put aside nearly two years ago suddenly clicked into place—not because I was grinding harder, but because I’d given the story time, space, and enough life experience to come back to it with new perspective.

This one is for writers, creatives, and creative entrepreneurs who have unfinished drafts, stalled projects…