It’s been six years since I started my YA fantasy novel, Elderflower. Six years. In that time, my wife and I have had four kids, I’ve started a business, lost some hair—and I’m still working on it.

Writer’s Block. Writer’s Bain, more like. Why do we get writer’s block, and how do we cast it back to the shadow from whence it came?

Writing can be wonderful. It can also be torture. That’s why you need a WHY—a reason to keep doing the work, even when the fun runs out.

Every great story begins with a spark. For me, it happened on a drive to work. I was daydreaming (as usual) when I imagined…