How to Write Without Triggering Your Writer’s Block
In my last article, How Your Brain Sabotages Your Writing Process (and What to Do About It), I talked about how writers with trauma around creativity and self-expression are often taken down during the writing process because their nervous system gets freaked out when they sit down to write. When the nervous system gets freaked […]
How Your Brain Sabotages Your Writing Process (and What to Do About It)
In my last article, You Really Want to Be a Writer. So Why Do You Have So Many Problems Actually Writing? I talked about the dysfunctional cycle many writers are trapped in when they’re dealing with writer’s block. Most writers who are struggling with writing blame themselves and are weighed down by the heavy shame […]
You Really Want to Be a Writer. So Why Do You Have So Many Problems Actually Writing?
Being a writer is hard work, any writer can tell you that. But what many writers won’t tell you is exactly how deep their writing problems go. There are countless writers out there who deal with constant guilt and shame around the writing process. Either because they’re not writing very much, or they’re not writing […]
Do You Feel Like Your Inner Writer Is Trapped Inside You? It’s Time to Look at the Uncomfortable Truth.
Writer’s block comes in many forms, but perhaps one of the hardest to deal with is that feeling that you can’t seem to say what you really want to say. You feel like there is a writer inside of you—the true writer that comes from the true you—but every time you sit down to write […]
3 Better Ways to Organize Your Story for Writers Who Are Pantsers (Instead of Using a Traditional Outline)
Some writers are plotters (which means they meticulously plot every detail of their novel before they write it), and others are pantsers (which means they plan nothing and fly by the seat of their pants), but what I’ve found after working with hundreds of writers is that most writers fall somewhere between the two. Identifying […]