30-Day Author: Develop a Daily Writing Habit and Write Your Book in 30 Days (or Less) (Wordslinger 1)

No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic?

The whole point involves more of a “why” for writing daily affirmations. I had to define for myself the reason I was doing this, so that I could mentally justify the work. I needed something that would explain to my brain, in simple terms, the best possible reasons to write these things every day rather than use that time to do something else. And

My why drives every decision, every choice, every allocation of funds or time or resources.

My decision, made long before I rolled into my driveway and made my way wearily inside, was that I would write more books. And more books. And more. Until the world was just filled with my fiction. Because that would get me closer to the mountain than ever.

Writer's block isn't hard to cure. Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.

The headline offers a pain point: “Braverman has only three sunsets to turn back eternal darkness.” That’s pretty potent. The pain for our reader is, “Why does Braverman only have three sunsets? How will he do it?!?” In other words, the pain point is the tension we created by introducing the story in an enigmatic way. We enticed the reader to read

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write.

I was always doing that—deferring what I really wanted in favor of doing something else, hoping it would pay off big and give me the freedom to go do the first thing I wanted.