Course Overview
Overview
If you’ve been staring at the same blinking cursor for a season and a half, this is your course. The Unfreeze Protocol assumes the freeze is real, physical, and not your fault. It also assumes you can write — you’ve just forgotten what that feels like. We’re not going to inspire you out of the freeze. We’re going to mechanic our way out. Four weeks. Twenty-four lessons. One evidence sweep a week. By the end you’ll have a stack of proof — your own, in your own words — that you can in fact write. The freeze becomes background noise instead of the whole song.
What’s inside
- 4 modules, 24 lessons, self-paced — and self-paced does not mean self-abandoning
- Mindset Maven Test that names YOUR specific freeze pattern (not a generic block label)
- 4 guided meditations averaging 8 minutes — short enough you’ll actually press play
- Toolkit: weekly Evidence Sweep planner + Micro-Start worksheet you’ll re-use forever
- Lifetime access, unlimited retakes, no expiry, no shame timer
- Companion blog post per module — public, shareable, your secret weapon when you want to send a friend the gist
Who this is for
- The novelist whose draft has been open in another tab since February
- The memoirist who keeps writing the first chapter and abandoning it at chapter three
- The screenwriter staring at a blinking cursor and a Final Draft template that won’t load
- The short story writer with eleven half-stories in a folder named ‘maybe’
FAQs
Is this self-paced?
Yes. You finish on your schedule. Lifetime access. You can retake it whenever the freeze comes back — and the freeze will come back at some point, because it’s freeze, not failure.
Do I need to be a published writer?
No. Most of the students in this aren’t. The course works for anyone with a draft and a problem.
How long does it take?
Four weeks at the recommended pace. Eight weeks at the actually-possible pace. Two years if you keep starting and stopping, which — given the topic of the course — would be on-brand.
Is there homework?
There are dares. You can do them. You can skip them. The course doesn’t grade you. You will, but that’s a different problem and we cover it.
Will this fix my writers block?
Here’s what it will do: name your specific freeze pattern, give you four micro-starts you can use forever, and rebuild your evidence base that you can write. Here’s what it won’t: make the freeze never return. Honest answer.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, within 14 days, no questions, no guilt-trip. You shouldn’t have to argue your way out of a course that didn’t fit.
What one student said
★★★★★
“My friend kept screenshotting pages of this course at me. After the eighth screenshot I gave in and bought it. I’m not someone who finishes online courses — I’ve abandoned dozens. I haven’t technically finished this one either. What I do have is the Evidence Sweep, which has lived in my Notes app for going on a year now. That one tool is worth the entire price. I’ll get to the rest of the course eventually. Or I won’t. The Sweep already gave me my money back twice over.”
— Jamie L., editor (also writing a memoir-in-progress, currently in a folder)
Curriculum
- 4 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Module 1: Naming the Freeze (Stop Calling It Lazy)Week one, you stop blaming your character and start mapping your nervous system. Most writers think they're stuck because they're undisciplined. They're not. They're frozen. Different problem, differe6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: Which Kind of Frozen Are You?
- 1.3Meditation: The Cursor Is Not Your Enemy (It’s Your Coworker, and It’s Tired Too)9
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Year I Wrote a Novel On Cocktail Napkins (a short essay)15
- 1.6Companion Blog: If the Cursor Could Talk, It Would Tell You to Calm Down10
- Module 2: The Micro-Start Mechanics (Smaller Than You Think, Smaller Than That)Week two we go small. Surgically small. The trick isn't writing more — it's writing less, on purpose, until the freeze loses its grip. We cover the Seven-Word Start, the Crap First Sentence Drill, the6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s the Smallest Unit You Can Survive?
- 2.3Meditation: The Two-Minute Bargain7
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: How I Wrote a Whole Book Two Sentences at a Time (And Why It’s Not a Brag)15
- 2.6Companion Blog: The Two-Minute Rule Is the Whole Rule10
- Module 3: Evidence Sweeps (Proof You Can Write, Collected By You, About You)Week three we build the case file. Every freeze is fed by the lie that you can't write. The lie survives because you don't keep receipts. This week we install the Evidence Sweep — a five-minute weekly6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: What Do You Refuse to Count as Writing?
- 3.3Meditation: The Receipts Are Real (A Meditation for the Discounted Writer)10
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: Letter to the Writer Who Forgot She Was Writing All Along15
- 3.6Companion Blog: The Lie Your Brain Tells You About How Much You’re Writing10
- Module 4: Weekly Resets (Because the Freeze Returns and That's Fine)Week four assumes the freeze will come back. Not because you're broken — because that's how nervous systems work. So instead of trying to never-freeze-again (impossible, and also boring), we build a W6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s Your Reset Style?
- 4.3Meditation: Sunday’s Job Is to Set Down Saturday11
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: Postcards From the Three Times I Froze and Came Back15
- 4.6Companion Blog: How to Build a Weekly Reset That Doesn’t Become Another Thing You Abandon10