Three years ago, I was stuck in a dim office on Wall Street. I stared at spreadsheets that looked like rain on a windshield. I was making good money but felt empty inside. One night, I opened my laptop and typed a sentence about my childhood in India. That sentence led to a paragraph, then […]
I spent three years on my first novel. I never finished it. The story was stuck in a folder, 47,000 words long, going nowhere. I blamed writer’s block and my schedule, but the real issue was I had no plan. Then I found James Thayer’s writing podcast. He showed how to write with before-and-after examples. […]
