Is built with focused, immediate implementation in mind. No fillers, no unnecessary modules, and extraneous exercises that look like you’re working on your writing on the surface but do nothing but add to the distraction and overwhelm and further sabotage your writing.
No fillers, no unnecessary modules, and extraneous exercises that look like you’re working on your writing on the surface but do nothing but add to the distraction and overwhelm and further sabotage your writing.
Knowing what is behind the self-sabotage, knowing how to get through it, and stop it, gives you the confidence in yourself and your writing, to persist when others walk away.
We’re going to start by looking at the most common reason writers feel stuck: the lack of conflict. Everything has been wrapped up far too nicely and there is nowhere else to go with the story.
When we don’t feel like writing, often it is because we are bored with the story we are working on. If we’re bored, then our readers will be bored. This module covers practical techniques to make you more interested in your story, by making your story more interesting.
You think you’ve got your plot right i so you start writing and then you start thinking, this would never happen, that can’t work, I’m making all kinds of twists and turns to explain why your character would do something. The whole time you’re thinking that it’s just convenient, a short cut. Your bullshit meter is going off. Is it a plotting issue? Is it even fixable? I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t!
Whether you’re just starting your first draft, or half-way through your third round of edits, there may come a time when you don’t know what should happen next, or what is motivating your character, what their goals are, or how to add. When you know your characters, you know what conflict will motivate them to move them forward.