#206. Student Spotlight: How Gina Elizabeth Went From Stuck to Publishing Two Books in Just One Year

Fiction Writing Made Easy

Savannah Gilbo

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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After years of getting stuck at chapter six, Gina Elizabeth finally discovered the missing piece that helped her finish writing not just one novel, but two books in a single year. Today I'm chatting with Gina Elizabeth, indie fantasy romance author of the Bonded in Blood series (and Notes to Novel graduate!), about her transformation from someone who couldn't finish a book to a published author of multiple books. In this episode, you'll hear us talk about things like: [04:00] Why she couldn't...

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0:55.7	My constant was always going back in editing and that was not working for me. Like going back
1:00.2	and editing a couple of chapters and then only writing up to chapter six like that, it just
1:04.1	wasn't working. So when I started leaving those notes and doing those magical revisions
1:08.4	or just saying like add in a fun scene here with these
1:11.8	people because I just couldn't think of anything at the time and just keep moving. It's great. But as far as
1:16.7	the creative process of the first draft, I find that so free to just be able to keep writing and
1:23.1	just keep moving forward. And if I want to make a change, I'll pretend that I've made it and then
1:28.5	just keep going with the story.
1:32.5	Welcome to the fiction writing made easy podcast. My name is Savannah Gilbo, and I'm here to
1:37.6	help you write a story that works. I want to prove to you that writing a novel doesn't have
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