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title: Practical Blockers
category: Workspace
tags: workspace, blockers, revision, planning
contextKey: workspace.practicalBlockers
micro: Find scenes blocked by missing decisions, research or planning details.
quickTitle: Practical blockers
quickSummary: Practical Blockers shows scenes that need attention before drafting or revision can proceed cleanly.
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# Overview

Practical Blockers collects scenes where something is preventing smooth progress. The blocker might be missing research, an unresolved timeline choice, unclear motivation or a continuity question.

# When Should I Use This?

Use this queue when you have planning energy, or when drafting keeps stalling because too many decisions are still open.

# How To Use It

Open a blocked scene, read the blocker note, and resolve the smallest decision that would make the scene workable again.

# Example

A scene may be blocked because you have not decided how a character enters the locked room. Clearing that question may unlock several later scenes.

# Writer Tip

Blockers are not failures. They are signposts showing where the story needs a decision.

# Common Mistakes

- Trying to draft around a blocker that affects continuity.
- Leaving research tasks vague.
- Treating every warning as equally urgent.

# Related Guides

- [Writer Workspace](/Help/Article/workspace.overview)
- [Scenes](/Help/Article/scenes.overview)
- [Locations](/Help/Article/locations.overview)