A "No" Is A Receipt, Not A Verdict. Start Counting.
Course Overview
Five modules on the psychology of submitting plus the actual mechanics — query, synopsis, pitch package. Mindset and craft on the same page. You leave with twenty things ready to send and the muscle to send them.
What You’ll Get
- 5 modules on submission fear, self-paced, no cohort, no calendar
- Query Mechanic Workbook + Pitch Package template
- 5 Mindset Maven Tests that name the pattern instead of scoring you
- 5 Book Maven Meditations — audio, roughly 39 minutes of it
- 10 printable toolkits
- 5 writing prompts, submitted or not — that part's yours
- 5 original essays from L.A. Walton, written for this course
- A DARE in every module. They're small. That's the trick.
This Course Is For
- Novelists who keep running into submission fear
- Poets who keep running into submission fear
- Memoirists who keep running into submission fear
- Anyone who has read about this problem and still has it
- Writers who will actually do the small thing: Submit one thing to one place this week
Course FAQs
How long does this take?
About 5.0 hours across 5 modules, and it's self-paced, so that's a floor not a schedule. Most people take longer because the DARES are the point and the DARES take days.
Is this craft or mindset?
This one sits on submission fear. I don't teach commas. I teach courage — and then, where the craft genuinely is the fix, the craft.
Do I need a manuscript in progress?
No. The prompts work on whatever you've got, including nothing. If you're mid-draft you'll move faster, but a blank file is a legitimate starting position here.
What's actually in a module?
An overview lesson with the FAQs, a mantra and a quote, an audio meditation, two printable toolkits, a Mindset Maven Test, an original essay, a companion blog post, and a writing prompt you can submit. Eight pieces. You do not have to use all eight.
Where does it start?
Module 01 — "The Maths Of No." Every working writer has a stack of nos taller than yours.
Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 30 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Module 01 · The Maths Of No8 Items
- 1.1Module 01 · The Maths Of No30 Minutes
- 1.2How Do You Process A No?” — The Recovery-Style Quiz20 Minutes1 Question
- 1.3The 24-Hour No Recovery Sit” — 10 Minutes10 minutes
- 1.4Writing Prompt — Module 01
- 1.5The 100 Nos Tracker10 Minutes
- 1.6The 24-Hour Re-Submit Card10 Minutes
- 1.7The Year I Set A Goal Of 100 Nos And Got 14 Yeses Instead” — An Essay15 Minutes
- 1.8Aim For 100 Rejections This Year. You’ll Get A Yes By 30.10 Minutes
- Module 02 · The Query Letter8 Items
- 2.1Module 02 · The Query Letter30 Minutes
- 2.2What’s Sabotaging Your Query?” — The Six-Pattern Diagnostic20 Minutes1 Question
- 2.3Pre-Query Calm — A 4-Minute Reset4 minutes
- 2.4Writing Prompt — Module 02
- 2.5The Query Letter Workbook — 12 Pages10 Minutes
- 2.6The Comparables Excavation Sheet10 Minutes
- 2.7The Query Letter I Rewrote 47 Times And The Two-Sentence Version That Worked” — A Working Essay15 Minutes
- 2.8Your Query Isn’t Bad. It’s Doing Too Much. Take Half Of It Out.10 Minutes
- Module 03 · The Synopsis8 Items
- 3.1Module 03 · The Synopsis30 Minutes
- 3.2What’s Eating Your Synopsis?” — Five-Pattern Diagnostic20 Minutes1 Question
- 3.3Stand Outside Your Own Plot” — 8 Minutes8 minutes
- 3.4Writing Prompt — Module 03
- 3.5The Synopsis Spine Worksheet10 Minutes
- 3.6The Three-Length Synopsis Builder10 Minutes
- 3.7The Synopsis I Rewrote Fourteen Times And The 150-Word Version That Got The Deal” — A Working Essay15 Minutes
- 3.8Your Synopsis Isn’t Boring. It’s Doing The Wrong Job. Let It Be Bones.10 Minutes
- Module 04 · The Pitch Package8 Items
- 4.1Module 04 · The Pitch Package30 Minutes
- 4.2How Ready Is Your Pitch Package, Honestly?” — Readiness Audit20 Minutes1 Question
- 4.3The Pre-Send Ritual” — 6 Minutes6 minutes
- 4.4Writing Prompt — Module 04
- 4.5The Pitch Package Build Checklist — 6 Pages10 Minutes
- 4.6The Request-To-Send Speed Run Template10 Minutes
- 4.7The Request That Came At 11:47pm And The Package I Sent By Midnight” — A Working Essay15 Minutes
- 4.8Build The Folder Now. The Request Always Comes At An Inconvenient Time.10 Minutes
- Module 05 · The Send-Day Protocol8 Items
- 5.1Module 05 · The Send-Day Protocol30 Minutes
- 5.2What Will Stop You From Pressing Send?” — The Final-Hour Diagnostic20 Minutes1 Question
- 5.3Pre-Send Calm — 11 Minutes To Press11 minutes
- 5.4Writing Prompt — Module 05
- 5.5The Send-Day Ritual Sheet10 Minutes
- 5.6The 48-Hour Post-Send Plan10 Minutes
- 5.7The Twenty Minutes Before I Pressed Send On A Manuscript I’d Carried For Six Years” — A Personal Essay15 Minutes
- 5.8The Send Is The Skill. Everything Else Is Practice For The Send.10 Minutes
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