Joanna's Mindfulness book - https://www.thecreativepenn.com/mindset/

https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/book/structuring-your-novel/

KM Weiland book and workbook

https://thecareerauthor.com/threestorymethod/

J and Zach story method

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0999296345/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0999296345&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=8072ad1746fb6eddf1f071323c377062

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TRANSCRIPT

Stephen 0:50In this episode of discovered word, Smith, I continue talking with Jackie Penn, who writes us Penny Appleton. Instead of interviewing This time, we're actually discussing a topic of concern, which at the moment, is how to keep writing, when times are tough. We've all been dealing with the shutdown lockdown of our countries of our place of business of our stores. And sometimes that can affect you as a writer. And we discussed this a little bit back and forth. It's a new format for the podcast, I hope you like it, let me know what you like or don't like about it, or if you have ideas for future topics. So here's the continuing discussion with Jackie pan.

Jackie 1:32I'm a bit stuck at the moment. And I go back to her books. And so I've got the successful author mindset here next to me, because it's partly covered that I've just published one. So the sum of your Christmas wedding has, has just gone out. So it's now out on Amazon. So that makes five and I'm a bit tired. But I thought during this time, I should be getting on with the next book. So I've got three good ideas. And one of the people on Joe's website, Jane Dixon Smith, she's she's our cover designer, and she's designed me three covers for the next three books. So I find it easier to work when I visually have got the idea. So the three covers of them. Anyway, I'm a bit blocked. So this is from Joe's book, the successful author mindset. She said, if you're blocked after finishing a book, when you think you should immediately start another one. Here's an excerpt from my journal a week after finishing gates of hell, her fifth full length novel, my mind is completely empty. I will never have another idea. What if this book is the last one? Or what if I never have any more ideas, my whole life is now bound up in writing books, and being an author. And if I can't write another one, I'm finished. I'm broken. This is underneath. I've written a number of other novels since then. So clearly that feeling is temporary. And I now understand that the emptiness is just another part of the creative process. So don't worry, fill the creative well. And then trust emergence, do some research, read other things. Think of your mind as a pipe, you have to put things in at the top for the ideas to come out and the bottom, take a break. So that's been really helpful because you think it's only me, I'm all alone doing this. But actually, you're not everybody feels like that.

Stephen 3:26Do you get patches. And I love that. And I get other patches where I feel overwhelmed with life and work. And I just have a hard time writing as for ideas that I have too many of sometimes. And I have to watch so I don't jump to between one and the other and never finish anything.

Jackie 3:48Yes. This I can understand that. Especially since I'm retired and I live on my own and do you have a family and another job and you know that that's quite difficult, isn't it? You've actually got to do the discipline of setting aside the time when do you write