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Your life isn’t a blank slate. It’s a thousand-piece puzzle.

Between kids, work, health, faith, and relationships, “just write at 5am every day” doesn’t fit for everyone. That’s why professional authors build flexible frameworks that adapt to real life instead of forcing routines that break under chaos.

In this episode, I’ll show you how to use the Jigsaw Puzzle Method to design a writing system that honors your actual life and still makes writing consistent.

You’ll learn:

✔️ Why rigid routines collapse under real-world pressure
✔️ How to name your “corner pieces” and protect your writing block
✔️ The difference between daily, weekly, and seasonal puzzle pieces
✔️ Why flexibility is the secret to sustainable writing
✔️ How one small daily block transforms identity from “aspiring” to professional

🎯 Adventure Challenge: Sketch your life puzzle. Name your corner pieces. Circle one 15–30 minute writing block that actually fits this week. Then write a scene starting with: “When he pressed the last piece into place, the puzzle began to breathe.”

Your life is not chaos. It’s a beautiful puzzle. And writing is one of the essential pieces.

Keep the words rolling and the adventures unfolding,

Bonnie Jean

Next Steps:

Escape into the Land of Zandador (the books I write under my pen name of Author D.K. Drake): Purchase one or all of the Dragon Stalker Bloodline Saga books on Amazon.

Connect: Send me an email at [email protected]


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