After finishing the Immortality Virus I planned on moving on to a new rough draft \u2014 Born of Two Worlds. Instead, I suffered 3 months of pure, agonizing writer\u2019s block. I couldn\u2019t force myself to put a single word on the page.I don\u2019t want to get into a long discussion of writer\u2019s block today. There are many causes and just as many solutions. For me, this time, the solution was to gtive the first two chapters of \u201cBorn of Two Worlds\u201d to a friend who gave me a few tips and assured me that this version i far superior to the original.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019ve written 4 chapters in 2 weeks (and those weeks included Christmas and New Year\u2019s). Sometimes, you need a little outside perspective to help you see the way through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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