I alwaysalwaysalways have stories floating around in my head. Full novels, finished. And it’s not even hard for me to write ( *knock on wood* ) when I sit down to do it. The words flow out of me and I rarely get what most people believe to be “writer’s block.”

When I was at 30k words, I became stuck. I was in that middle part (or at least what was the middle then … a 60k word book became over a 100k word one!) and I’d never been there before and didn’t know where to go. But I jumped ahead and...