Why Writers Struggle to Find Flow — and the Simple Practices That Bring It Back

Why Writers Struggle to Find Flow — and the Simple Practices That Bring It Back

April 30, 2026 · 37 min

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The episode explores the challenges writers face in achieving creative flow and offers simple practices to regain it.

Send us Fan Mail What does it really take to get into a state of creative flow and what pulls us out of it? In this Editor's Round Table episode, I’m joined by fellow editors Sarah Chauncey and Lynn Shattuck to explore the Law of Increasing Flow: a framework built on presence, strategic rest, and stopping before you hit empty. Together we dig into the problem of tech distraction, the power of the subconscious mind, and why percolation–not pushing–is where so much of the real writing happens. ...

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Host: Lisa Cooper Ellison

Guests: Sarah Chauncey, Lynn Shattuck

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