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- Module 1: Defining Your Opening (Or: What Exactly Are You Quitting?)Week one we get specific. 'I can't finish anything' is too big a sentence to fix. You can't finish what, exactly? An opening sequence in a screenplay is not the same beast as a chapter one in a novel,6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: Where Do You Reliably Quit?
- 1.3Meditation: Welcome to the Drafts Folder (a Loving Audit)10
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Drafts Folder Eulogy: A Short Ceremony for the Ones That Didn’t Make It15
- 1.6Companion Blog: Why Your Drafts Folder Is Trying to Tell You Something (And What)10
- Module 2: The Opening Architecture (Five Moves, In Order)Week two is the mechanics week. Every opening, in every form, has the same five moves: Hook, Anchor, Question, Move, Threshold. Forget what the writing books taught you — this is the working version,6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: Which of the Five Moves Are You Skipping?
- 2.3Meditation: Five Moves, Three Breaths Each8
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: How I Wrote the Same Opening Twelve Different Ways and Learned the Lesson on the Eleventh15
- 2.6Companion Blog: The Five Moves Every Working Opening Makes (And the One You’re Skipping)10
- Module 3: Restart Patterns (Why You Keep Quitting at Minute Fourteen)Week three we look at restart patterns — your specific, repeating, predictable way of quitting. Most writers think their stalls are random. They're not. They cluster. There's the Excitement Drop (you6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s Your Restart Pattern?
- 3.3Meditation: Minute Fourteen Is Not the End of the Movie8
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: A Field Guide to My Own Quits: Twenty Years of Data15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Your Stalls Aren’t Random. They’re a Pattern. Here Are the Four Most Common.10
- Module 4: The Restart Project (Pick One. Finish Its Opening. This Week.)Week four you stop drafting new openings and finish one OLD opening. You pick one project from the 47-Document Inventory. You apply the five moves. You finish the opening. You complete it, in full, th6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: Which Sleeping Draft Wants to Be Finished?
- 4.3Meditation: The Draft That Won’t Let Go9
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Draft I Resurrected Seven Years Later (And the Draft I Finally Buried)15
- 4.6Companion Blog: When to Resurrect an Old Draft (And When to Bury It With Honors)10
- Module 5: The Opening Playbook (Your Personal System, In Writing)Week five you build the Opening Playbook — a personal document that holds YOUR five moves, YOUR Quit Point, YOUR restart pattern, YOUR intervention cards, and YOUR ten favorite published openings anno6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Belongs in YOUR Playbook?
- 5.3Meditation: Drafting the Document That Will Save You Later12
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: The Playbook I Wrote in 2019 That Saved Me in 202415
- 5.6Companion Blog: Why Every Working Writer Has a Personal Playbook (And You Probably Don’t)10
- Module 6: The Six-Opening Showcase (Plus What You Do With This Now)Final week. You'll have six finished openings by the end of this week — one from each module. We close the course with a showcase exercise: you'll select your strongest opening, polish it lightly, and6
- 6.1Module 6: Overview20
- 6.2Mindset Maven Test: Which of Your Six Openings Is Asking To Be Finished?
- 6.3Meditation: Pick One (A Closing Audio)11
- 6.4Writing Prompt: Module 630
- 6.5INSPIRATION: What I Did With the Six Openings I Wrote in 2018 (Spoiler: Three Are Books Now)15
- 6.6Companion Blog: Six Finished Openings in Six Weeks: A Method, Not a Miracle10
Mindset Maven Test: Where Do You Reliably Quit?
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