Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 25 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Module 1: The Seven Flavors of Writing Fear (Yours Is Specific)Week one is the diagnostic. 'I'm scared to write' is a category, not a diagnosis. We open the manual with the seven sub-flavors of writing fear: Visibility Fear, Disclosure Fear, Quality Fear, Belongi6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: Which Flavor of Scared Are You?
- 1.3Meditation: The Fear Has a Job (and It’s Doing It)14
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: Letter to the Scared Poet Who Hasn’t Shown Anyone a Poem Since 201815
- 1.6Companion Blog: There Are Seven Flavors of Writing Fear. Generic Advice Is Why None of Yours Have Lifted.10
- Module 2: The Scared-But-Moved Log (The Slowest Tool, the Most Permanent)Week two installs the central practice of the course: the Scared-But-Moved Log. A five-line daily entry. What you were scared of. What you did anyway. What happened. How long it took. What you'd tell6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: What Does YOUR Scared-But-Moved Look Like?
- 2.3Meditation: Reading the Log Back to Yourself12
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: The Year I Logged Everything (And What I Learned About Fear From the Receipts)15
- 2.6Companion Blog: Bravery Isn’t a Personality. It’s a Logbook.10
- Module 3: The Embodied Prep Ritual (Body First, Page Second)Week three goes into the body. Fear is a physical event. Trying to write through it without touching the body is why most fear-on-the-page advice fails. This week you'll build a 7-minute Embodied Prep6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: What Does Your Body Need Before the Page?
- 3.3Meditation: The Seven-Minute Pre-Writing Ritual (Guided All the Way Through)8
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Day I Started Doing Posture Adjustments Before Writing (And the Three Years I Resisted It)15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Your Body Knows You’re About to Write Something Scary. Treat It Like a Partner, Not a Problem.10
- Module 4: The Hot-Seat Review (How to Read Your Own Scared Work)Week four teaches the hardest skill of the course: reading your own work that you wrote scared, with kindness AND with rigor, without flinching. The Hot-Seat Review is a structured 20-minute weekly pr6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: Which Inner Critic Voice Hijacks Your Reviews?
- 4.3Meditation: Sitting With the Draft Without Flinching13
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: Twenty Years of Hot-Seat Reviews: A Confession15
- 4.6Companion Blog: How to Read Your Own Work Without Flinching (And Without Coddling)10
- Module 5: The Field Manual (Your Personal Document, Done)Final week. You'll compile the Field Manual — a personal document that holds YOUR fear flavor, YOUR Scared-But-Moved Log structure, YOUR Embodied Prep Ritual, YOUR Hot-Seat Review protocol, YOUR inner6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Belongs in YOUR Field Manual?
- 5.3Meditation: Closing Audio: The Manual Is in Your Hands Now15
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: The Day I Wrote the Chapter I’d Been Avoiding for Six Years15
- 5.6Companion Blog: I Wrote a Field Manual for Writing While Scared. Here’s What’s In It and Why It Worked.10
INSPIRATION: The Day I Wrote the Chapter I’d Been Avoiding for Six Years
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