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[Chan790]

You have writer's block. All you need now is someone to pay you to write and you'll have confronted all the challenges of being a professional writer and earned all the merit badges. :party:

Glad to hear everything else is hunky-dory.

If the writer's block sticks, I recommend two books:

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. It's a book about how to address creative block and what causes it. Pressfield is a vocal evangelical Christian but that thread throughout the book is easily ignored as the basis of his argument is psychological and confrontation of self-defeating behavior, including fear of failure. Feel free to ignore his insistence that creativity is divinely inspired.

Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers by Sherry Ellis. It's a collection of writing exercises meant to spark or pull you through various common sticking points for writers; there are a lot of such books like this one on the market but I think this one is the best. The exercises will also help a narrative non-fic author like you, Tobin.