Avoid the top 5 mistakes writers make!
It’s a myth that writing has to be difficult.
It doesn’t.
Are you ready to discover the profoundly SATISFYING stories you can write?
Then avoid these mistakes to write (more)!
Hi, I'm Tessa Smith McGovern. I've taught writing for 22 years (since 2011 at The Writing Institute, Sarah Lawrence College). I'm also an award-winning, Amazon best-selling writer selected as a 'Featured' author by Kirkus Reviews.
Some people think writing is a mysterious process, that it can’t be boiled down to a simple approach.
But the truth is, there IS a simple approach - blocks you can avoid - to start writing.
And these mindset shifts work for ALL types of writing from literary fiction to genre fiction.
Writing becomes easy once you know what to avoid.
Writing becomes fun again, and so deeply rewarding!
That’s why so many people - published and unpublished - continue to write their whole lives.
My new, free PDF download, compiled from my years of experience as a writer and an instructor, can teach you the top 5 mistakes to avoid and unlock all the stories inside you.
And the best part? You can post these mindset hacks somewhere prominent and avoid slipping back into the old, bad habits of thinking.
You can come to the free, weekly sprints to get writing, get organized, and become the writer you long to be.
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Let me teach you 5 mindset hacks to smash writer's block and get writing.
The hard truth is this: Sometimes, even though you yearn to write and know you have stories inside you, life’s just too busy and you haven’t got time to think up any good ideas. It can feel like the Muse has abandoned you.
At other times, you walk around with characters and story ideas in your head and maybe you get a few ideas down on paper - or you even start to write the story - but then things blow up at work or the cat gets ill or your family needs you and those ideas - suffocated by inattention and lack of time - evaporate.
And it can be hard to work on a story when you don’t know if your idea will work in the first place.
What would be a good first sentence?
What if your character is boring?
What happens in the middle?
How do you craft a satisfying ending?
So days turn into weeks and still you haven’t written the story. Before you realize it, that pressing, once-vital idea evaporates into thin air.
The story that could-have-been never sees the light of day while other writers, with stories that might be less compelling or well-written, continue to write and publish.
How do they do it? They have the right mindset.
Imagine if you had the right mindset...your words will flow and you’ll never lose another idea to the ether again.
And after 25 years of writing and 22 years of teaching, I've discovered the #5 most common ways writers sabotage themselves.
So even if you've started and abandoned a story before, even if you’ve never even begun to capture your ideas on paper…
It's not too late to start.
Yes, I promise, it's not too late to turn everything around.
Imagine if you could let go of self-doubt and get your ideas out of your head and onto the page? If you could just smash writers' block and start writing?
- ā€‹Break the endless pattern of thinking about story ideas and wishing you could write them and instead, enjoy getting those words down on the page
- ā€‹Stop reading other people’s stories or watching TV and thinking, I could do that! and start enjoying the process of crafting your own stories.
- ā€‹Go to bed each night feeling satisfied because you’ve shown up for your Creative Self and feeling excited about the next day’s creativity
- Enjoy the deep sense of accomplishment that comes from finishing a story in a way that delights and satisfies you
- ā€‹Feel the joy of capturing your creativity in a productive way, of creating a story others can also enjoy.
- Become the writer you long to be
...all just by adopting 5 simple mindset shifts.
What if you could see instant results?
Yes, really.
What if you eliminate those blocks and the ideas in your head become the first draft of a story readers enjoy?
What if you start writing today with a step-by-step guide?
What if this was the best time investment you ever made in your writing journey?
I’m sure you know many people who have goals to write but year after year nothing changes. They’re still stuck in the same old rut. You don’t want to be one of those people.
None of us is immortal. We only have a limited time on this earth to create something meaningful. But if we don’t get started, it’ll never happen.
Very often, what gets in the way is an image in our head: the perfect story with perfect sentences that people linger over saying, wow, that’s thrilling/mind-blowing/beautiful! We dream of creating a story that does this because it’s exactly the experience we had as readers. It’s probably one of the things that made us want to write in the first place.
But it’s a trap!
A trap we create for ourselves...we know the first draft won’t be perfect and the pain of falling short of our dream - of disappointing ourselves - stops us from moving forward.
Break the endless pattern of procrastination
and GET INSPIRED and start writing.
Go to bed tonight feeling satisfied
that you took action to FURTHER YOUR PROGRESS AS A WRITER.
Easily face down the blinking cursor
on an empty page, armed with a new mindset!
Why do we forget that those stories that inspired us were once messy first drafts, too?
If your favorite authors had never written the first, messy draft, those stories you love wouldn’t exist.
And it’s exactly the same with YOUR stories.
If you don’t start writing, get the first messy draft on the page, you have nothing to revise. Nothing to turn into a satisfying story.
Introducing...
Top 5 Mistakes Writers Make: Avoid These to Write (More)!
This free PDF download will help you start writing even if:
- You've never done it before
- You have no ideas
- You have too MANY ideas!
- You don't know how
- You've started and stopped writing and given up in the past
Here's What To Do Next
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You can access it anytime, anywhere, on your phone, tablet, or desktop without having to wait for an arbitrary start date.
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