I recently heard a best-selling author on a radio interview telling how he tackles his book projects. For every one of his books, there was an obstacle he had to overcome.In one case, he wanted to write a novel set in a specific foreign country. Before doing it, he had go live there for a year. That was the obstacle – he couldn’t write the book until he had spent time getting to know the landscape, experiencing the culture, traveling the streets, hearing and speaking the language, eating the food.He took on the obstacle, he wrote the book, and it
