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- Module 1: Meet Your Specific Critic (Hers Has a Voice, a Personality, and a History)Week one is the introduction. Your critic is not generic. She has a voice (often a specific voice you can name), a personality, a set of habitual moves, a few topics she's especially loud about, and a6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: What Is Your Critic’s Specific Personality?4 Questions
- 1.3Meditation: Introductions (a 10-Minute Sit With the Critic, Not Against Her)10
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: Meet Carol: A Profile of My Inner Critic (Twenty Years In)15
- 1.6Companion Blog: Name Your Inner Critic. The Naming Is Half the Containment.10
- Module 2: Drafting Mode vs. Editing Mode (The Two Modes That Cannot Run At Once)Week two we install the fundamental skill of the course: distinguishing drafting mode from editing mode. They are different brain states. They cannot run simultaneously. When the critic gets you to ed6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: What Are YOUR Slip Triggers Into Editing Mode?4 Questions
- 2.3Meditation: The Drafting Block Audio (25 Minutes, No Editing, Hold the Line)25
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: The Three Years I Couldn’t Finish a Draft Because I Edited Every Sentence Twice (The Confession)15
- 2.6Companion Blog: Drafting Mode and Editing Mode Cannot Run At the Same Time (And the Critic Knows It)10
- Module 3: Critic Containment Protocols (Negotiated Working Hours)Week three we negotiate. The critic doesn't leave, but she can be given working hours. We design a Critic Containment Protocol — specific times she is invited (Thursdays at 4pm, when you're editing),6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: What Are YOUR Specific Critic Working Hours?4 Questions
- 3.3Meditation: The ‘You Are Not On the List’ Audio (Boundary-Setting Practice)6
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Day I Told Carol She Was Off the Clock Until Thursday15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Give Your Inner Critic Working Hours. She Will Test the Boundaries. You Will Hold.10
- Module 4: When the Critic Is Right (Sorting Useful Signal from Habitual Noise)Week four is the nuance week. Sometimes the critic IS right. Some of her flags carry information. The trick is to sort her noise from her signal — without letting the signal-sorting become a backdoor6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: What Ratio of YOUR Critic’s Flags Are Actually Signal?4 Questions
- 4.3Meditation: The Capture-and-Defer Audio (Use Mid-Block)2
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Three Times My Critic Was Right (Out Of Roughly Eighteen Hundred Times She Wasn’t)15
- 4.6Companion Blog: Your Inner Critic Has a Signal-to-Noise Ratio. Most of It Is Noise.10
- Module 5: The Hot-Seat Self-Review (Reading Your Draft with the Critic Present, Useful)Week five is the structured self-review. Most writers either avoid reading their own work (because the critic takes over) or read it with the critic in full control. The Hot-Seat Self-Review is a 30-m6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Hijacks YOUR Self-Reviews?4 Questions
- 5.3Meditation: The Hot-Seat Audio (Press Play Before Every Self-Review)14
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: How I Learned to Read My Own Drafts Without Hating Them (and Without Lying to Myself)15
- 5.6Companion Blog: Run a Structured Self-Review. Stop Self-Prosecuting Your Own Drafts.10
- Module 6: The Long Game (Your Critic Containment System, Documented)Final week. You'll compile your Critic Containment System — a one-page reference holding YOUR Critic Profile, YOUR Two-Mode Distinguishing markers, YOUR Containment Protocol, YOUR Signal Test, YOUR Ho6
- 6.1Module 6: Overview20
- 6.2Mindset Maven Test: How Will YOUR Critic Mutate in the Next Six Years?4 Questions
- 6.3Meditation: Closing Audio: The Six-Year Letter to the Critic15
- 6.4Writing Prompt: Module 630
- 6.5INSPIRATION: The Letter I Wrote to Carol in 2018 (And What She’s Become in 2024)15
- 6.6Companion Blog: Write Your Inner Critic a Six-Year Letter (Yes, Really)10
INSPIRATION: The Letter I Wrote to Carol in 2018 (And What She’s Become in 2024)
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