#222. 3 Mindset Shifts Every Writer Needs to Finish Their Novel

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Savannah Gilbo

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Discover the mindset shifts to break out of analysis paralysis, choose progress over perfection, and build your novel layer by layer until it's complete. Feeling stuck writing your novel? You're not alone. Most writers think they're struggling because they don't have enough time, talent, or discipline. But more often than not, the real issue is actually mindset. In fact, it's the root cause of stuckness: rewriting the same chapters, second-guessing every decision, or trying to fix everything ...

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered why some writing advice leaves you more confused than when you started?
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0:27.0	where you are in your writing journey right now. Plus, I'll send you a customized 10-episode
0:32.2	podcast playlist, as well as additional resources specifically chosen for where you're at to help you start making
0:38.4	lots of progress and get to that next big milestone, whether that's finishing your first draft,
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0:56.1	and get a personalized roadmap tailored to where you're at in your writing, editing, or publishing
1:00.6	journey. And when you're trying to juggle plot and prose and theme and character all at once,
1:06.2	you're doing this as well. You're trying to write a finished, polished, layered novel in one single draft.
1:12.8	And the reason that this does not work is because, again, writing a novel is not a linear
1:17.6	process. It is an iterative process in which you make decisions, you test those decisions,
1:23.3	you see what works, you adjust, and then you build on what's strong, you fix what is weak, and you clarify what is muddy.
1:30.3	But you can only do that if you have something to work with, and that something is a complete draft.
1:38.0	Welcome to the Fiction Writing Made Easy podcast.
1:41.0	My name is Savannah Gilbo, and I'm here to help you write a story that works. I want to prove
1:45.9	to you that writing a novel doesn't have to be overwhelming. So each week, I'll bring you a brand
1:50.4	new episode with simple, actionable, and step-by-step strategies that you can implement in your
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