Listening and hearing are not the same things.

You can listen to what your story is trying to tell you, and not hear it.

Every day, when you sit down to write, you’ll go on a rollercoaster of storytelling. Some days will be fantastic. Other days will be awful. Yet others will be dreary and dull.

And in all of those days will come a moment when you’ll stumble and know something is wrong. 

You don’t know what. You only sense it. Your instinct is to either start fixing it, or to ignore it and plod...