AROUND THE WRITER'S BLOCK

This guide for writers uses recent breakthroughs in neuroscience to create an easy-to-follow program for ending writers block, procrastination, and other self-defeating behaviors.

Do you… • Want to write, but find yourself unable even to start? • Edit your first page over and over, and feel unable to move on? • Keep your schedule so full that you don’t have time to write? • Suddenly remember ten other things that require immediate attention when you sit down to write? • Delay or fail to meet deadlines? • Sabotage your own efforts with lost files, accidents, or missed appointments? You’re not alone. Many writers are plagued by “resistance,” a group of behaviors including writer’s block, procrastination, postponing, and self-sabotage, that prevent us from being able to get words down on the page, and can make us feel adrift, hopeless, worthless, discouraged, and ready to give up. The good news is that you don’t need to be superhuman to beat writer’s resistance. You just need to learn what’s going on inside your brain and harness that knowledge to develop a productive writing habit. A writing and creativity teacher for more than twenty years, Rosanne Bane has given thousands of writers the tools to understand and bust through writer’s block and other self-defeating writing behaviors.