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Why Writing Your Book Feels Like a Battle with Julia Packwood

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Authors Who Lead - Learn to write a book from bestselling authors and leaders
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Dec 22, 2025
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Send us Fan Mail Julia Packwood has the idea. She feels the call. She even has deadlines and bylines. Yet when she sits down to write, it feels like a battle. In this episode, Azul reframes that struggle: the hard feeling is not a problem to be fixed, but rather a rite of passage. Then the conversation turns practical, moving the writing practice out of the office and into nature, separating drafting from editing, and measuring progress by words, not time. A warm, honest episode for anyone tr...