Roundtable Replay: When Ideas Become Avoidance
Episode 8 Deep Discussion + Community Insights
Author Note:
I should have explained this aspect better…please forgive me, I’m still learning how to cater to writers. Rountable Replay has two parts:
To provide a list of questions, centered on the podcast of a given month. These are conversation starters, so writers can discuss and share their thoughts, feelings, experiences on this subject as well as ask questions.
To provide a private space (a GoBrunch room) where writers can gather to have discussions with one another about the podcast each month. The room has been created and provided, and the current password (changed every month) is available to paid subscribers at the bottom of this article. Just click and enter.
My hope is to schedule time and make myself available for these discussions ASAP. Until then, feel free to comment below, or post in the chat…to coordinate with other writers…use the room at your pleasure.
Make friends.
Ask and answer questions.
-Jaime
This Is What the Room Sounds Like
Most writers read advice in silence.
They nod.
They bookmark.
They close the tab…and nothing changes.
The Roundtable exists because growth doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when writers stop performing certainty and start speaking honestly with other people who understand the work.
The Roundtable Replay is not a webinar.
It’s not a lecture.
It’s not a highlight reel.
It’s a private, off-the-record conversation where writers wrestle with the exact questions raised in this episode…out loud, in real time, with other serious creators.
Below, you’ll find the same core questions we used to open the room. You’re welcome to sit with them on your own.
But the part you can’t see here is what happens next.
That’s where writers admit what they’ve been avoiding.
Where patterns get named.
Where someone finally says the thing you thought only you were thinking.
Access to the full Roundtable Replay, including the live discussion and community insights, is reserved for subscribers.
Because some conversations only work when everyone in the room has skin in the game.
Roundtable guided discussion.
This will fill 60–90 minutes easily if people show up honestly.
Opening Frame (Read Aloud)
“Tonight isn’t about killing creativity.
It’s about learning when inspiration is helping…and when it’s quietly pulling us away from the work that matters.”
Roundtable Prompt Set
1️⃣ Warm-Up — Recognition
When a new idea hits you, what are you usually doing in your current project at that exact moment?
(Beginning, middle, ending, revision, sharing, or stuck?)
2️⃣ The Trigger Moment
Think of the last idea that pulled you away from a project.
What discomfort did it solve for you emotionally?
Fear of failing?
Fear of being seen?
Boredom?
Loss of confidence?
Say it out loud.
3️⃣ The Alignment Test
Looking at your current season as a writer…
Is the project you’re most excited about actually the one that serves you best right now?
Why or why not?
4️⃣ Confession Round
Finish this sentence honestly:
“I keep starting new ideas because finishing makes me confront __________.”
(No fixing. No explaining. Just truth.)
5️⃣ Commitment Question
If you were only allowed to finish one meaningful piece of work in the next 60 days…
What would it be?
And what would you have to stop doing to make that happen?
6️⃣ Accountability Close
What is one uncomfortable page, scene, or decision you will finish this week…even if it’s messy?
Name it.
Name when.
Name what might try to stop you.
If you’re ready to stop thinking alone and start growing together, the Roundtable is waiting.
The monthly password is below.
