BM-050 — The Bestseller Tab Is Killing You
Five modules on breaking the comparison loop. The neuroscience, the math, the mantras. Plus the literal scripts for closing the tab.
Your Brain Is Running A Specific Script. The Script Has Mechanics. Mechanics Can Be Stopped.
Course Overview
Five modules on breaking the comparison loop. The neuroscience, the maths, the mantras. Plus the literal scripts for closing the tab. For the creative whose draft died the day they opened a bestseller's Amazon page.
What You’ll Get
- 5 modules on comparison spiral, self-paced, no cohort, no calendar
- Comparison Loop workbook
- 5 Mindset Maven Tests that name the pattern instead of scoring you
- 5 Book Maven Meditations — audio, roughly 49 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 comparison spiral
- Poets who keep running into comparison spiral
- Memoirists who keep running into comparison spiral
- Anyone who has read about this problem and still has it
- Writers who will actually do the small thing: Map your last comparison loop on paper
Course FAQs
How long does this take?
About 4.0 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 comparison spiral. 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 Comparison Loop Mechanics." Comparison isn't a feeling — it's a loop with mechanics.
- 5 Sections
- 30 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
- Module 01 · The Comparison Loop Mechanics8
- 1.1Module 01 · The Comparison Loop Mechanics30 Minutes
- 1.2What Triggers Your Comparison Loop?” — The Trigger Sorter20 Minutes1 Question
- 1.3Catch The Trigger Before The Tab Opens” — 8 Minutes8 minutes
- 1.4Writing Prompt — Module 01
- 1.5The Loop Mechanics Mapping Sheet10 Minutes
- 1.6The Trigger-Interrupt Card10 Minutes
- 1.7The Comparison Loop I Mapped In 2021 That Stopped Eating My Mondays” — A Personal Essay15 Minutes
- 1.8Map Your Comparison Loop. The Trigger Is The Interrupt Point.10 Minutes
- Module 02 · The Tab-Closing Scripts8
- 2.1Module 02 · The Tab-Closing Scripts30 Minutes
- 2.2Which Closing Script Fits Your Brain?” — The Lifeline Sorter20 Minutes1 Question
- 2.3Rehearse The Closing Script Out Loud” — 6 Minutes6 minutes
- 2.4Writing Prompt — Module 02
- 2.5The Three Closing Scripts Card Pack10 Minutes
- 2.6The Tab-Closure Log10 Minutes
- 2.7The Twelve-Word Script That Closes The Spiral In Forty Seconds” — A Working Essay15 Minutes
- 2.8Write A 12-Word Tab-Closing Script. Memorise It. Deploy When The Spiral Starts.10 Minutes
- Module 03 · Their Chapter One Is Their Twentieth Draft8
- 3.1Module 03 · Their Chapter One Is Their Twentieth Draft30 Minutes
- 3.2What Version Of Theirs Are You Comparing To?” — The Currency Sorter20 Minutes1 Question
- 3.3See Their Draft One (It Was Also Mid)” — 9 Minutes9 minutes
- 3.4Writing Prompt — Module 03
- 3.5The Draft-Version Calibrator Card10 Minutes
- 3.6The Imagined-Draft-One Exercise Sheet10 Minutes
- 3.7The Day I Imagined Donna Tartt’s First Draft And My Comparison Spiral Stopped” — A Personal Essay15 Minutes
- 3.8Their Chapter One Was Their Twentieth Draft. You’re Comparing Wrong Currencies.10 Minutes
- Module 04 · The 30-Day Comparison Detox8
- 4.1Module 04 · The 30-Day Comparison Detox30 Minutes
- 4.2Which Three Triggers Should You Cut First?” — The Detox Planner20 Minutes1 Question
- 4.3The Detox Day One — Cut The Signal” — 11 Minutes11 minutes
- 4.4Writing Prompt — Module 04
- 4.5The 30-Day Detox Plan Template10 Minutes
- 4.6The Daily Detox Log — 30 Days10 Minutes
- 4.7The Thirty Days I Quit Reading About Other Writers (And Wrote Twice As Much)” — A Working Essay15 Minutes
- 4.8Run A 30-Day Comparison Detox. You’ll Double Your Output. Don’t Ask Why.10 Minutes
- Module 05 · Long-Term Comparison Hygiene8
- 5.1Module 05 · Long-Term Comparison Hygiene30 Minutes
- 5.2What’s The Smallest Hygiene Practice You’d Actually Keep?” — The Realist Sorter20 Minutes1 Question
- 5.3The Sunday Hygiene Check” — 15 Minutes15 minutes
- 5.4Writing Prompt — Module 05
- 5.5The Hygiene Calendar — Annual Printable10 Minutes
- 5.6The Quarterly Unfollow Purge Worksheet10 Minutes
- 5.7The Hygiene Schedule That Has Kept Me Out Of The Spiral For Three Years” — A Working Essay15 Minutes
- 5.8After The Detox, Build The Hygiene. The Hygiene Is The Decade.10 Minutes
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