Sam Wall asked Link Neal:

Did you have writer's block at all?

Link Neal I'm not going to say we didn't have writer's block, but the fact that our writing process was so deeply collaborative; I think that helped us sidestep the blocks that I hear are common when writing alone. Rhett and I have collaborated on pretty much every creative endeavor we've worked on. And we've grown pretty adept at spurring one another on when the creative momentum lulls. Usually, one of us can provide a creative spark when the other hits an impasse. Plus, with most every project, at the outset we seek to get as detailed as possible in articulating and shaping our ideas into one cohesive vision. With the novel, that meant detailed world-building and story outlining before we really got too far into actually writing. Since we knew where the story was going from the outset, I think that really helped us clear a lot of the potential for prolonged writer's block.

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