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Check out the Embracing Uncertainty Workshop, October 20, 2025!

The draft feels stuck, the notes aren’t talking, and your outline suddenly looks like wishful thinking. We’ve all been there. Trevor sits down with writing coach and historian-turned-book coach Christina Larocco to unpack a calm, repeatable way to turn uncertainty into momentum—without waiting for a muse or getting lost in another stack of sources.

Christina shares the simple two-column exercise that changes everything: list what you know on one side and what you don’t know on the other. Those unknowns become concrete questions, and questions become small, focused experiments you can run in a single session. We dig into structured freewriting, constraint-based prompts, and playful methods—from writing a paragraph three ways to sketching a three-panel comic—that coax clarity when the page feels hostile. You’ll hear how to stop the common avoidance loops: surface-level tinkering, endless research, and premature abandonment of promising drafts.

Together we challenge the plotter vs. pantser binary and show how both camps can cross-train. Plotters plan for discovery so surprises strengthen structure instead of derailing it. Pantsers add light scaffolds to restart momentum when instinct stalls. Then we map these tools to the 12-week year framework: breaking a chapter into solvable questions, scheduling micro-experiments, and measuring progress by decisions made, not hours suffered. Whether you’re shaping an academic article, a business book, or a novel’s messy middle, you’ll leave with practical moves to reduce panic, invite curiosity, and make the unknown do the work.

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My team and I help writers get their writing done. If you're stuck, it's not a knowledge problem. It's not a skill issue. And it's not a motivation or willpower thing. You know what you need to do and how to do it. The problem is consistent execution: getting the writing done week in and week out.

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