Your Worst Day Writing Should Be Better Than Your Best Day At Your Job! Is It?

Do You Remember When Writing Stopped Being Fun? Do You Know How To Make It Thrill You Again?

I Do.

Writer's Block isn't just being stuck wordless, staring at a blank page or screen.

It's you plodding through scene after scene, hating your characters and your words, loathing every sentence you drag out of yourself
It's you writing, backing up, erasing, writing, backing up, erasing, and never making progress
It's you flipping endlessly through a thesaurus, looking for the one word that's right... and then the next one... and the next one, and never finding the words that are good enough
It's you finding every excuse in the world to NOT do the one thing you know, somewhere deep inside, you still want to do more than anything
And yes, it's you, staring at the cursor on the blank screen, blinking... Blinking... Blinking...

Dear Fellow Writer,

Holly Lisle--photo by the author, copyright 2006 My name is Holly Lisle, and I'm a full-time novelist. I've published more than thirty novels since I went pro in 1991, with imprints of Harpercollins, Time-Warner, NAL, and Scholastic, as well as with Baen and Tor, and have foreign editions and translations of my books published in Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, and more... I write regularly, I make my living at it, and I love my work.

**My Novels**
	The Silver Door, Orchard Books, in progress Hawkspar: A Novel of Korre, Tor, June 2008 The Ruby Key, Orchard Books, May 2008 Night Echoes, Signet Eclipse, April 2007 I See You, Onyx, July 2006 Talyn: A Novel of Korre, Tor, August 2005 Last Girl Dancing, Onyx, July 2005 Midnight Rain, Onyx, Nov 2004 Gods Old and Dark, Eos, Mar 2004 The Wreck of Heaven, Eos, Apr 2003 Memory of Fire, Avon Eos, May 2002 Vincalis the Agitator, Warner Aspect, March 2002 Courage of Falcons, Warner Aspect, October 2000 Vengeance of Dragons, Warner Aspect, October 1999 Diplomacy of Wolves, Warner Aspect, November 1998 In The Rift: Glenraven II, Baen Books, April 1998 Curse of the Black Heron, Baen Books, March 1998 Hell on High, (with Ted Nolan), Baen Books, May 1997	Wrath of the Princes, (with Aaron Allston), Baen Books, March 1997 Hunting the Corrigan's Blood, Baen Books, February 1997 The Devil and Dan Cooley, (with Walter Spence) Baen Books, December 1996 Glenraven, Baen Books,September 1996 Thunder of the Captains, (with Aaron Allston), Baen Books, July 1996 Sympathy for the Devil, Baen Books, January 1996 Mall, Mayhem and Magic, (with Chris Guin), Baen Books, August 1995 Mind of the Magic, Baen Books, May 1995 The Rose Sea, (with S.M.Stirling), Baen Books, September 1994 Minerva Wakes, Baen Books, January 1994 Bones of the Past, Baen Books, March 1993 When the Bough Breaks, (with Mercedes Lackey), February 1993 Fire in the Mist, Baen Books, August 1992

To the right, you'll see all but one of my novels, in reverse order of publication. (I did one novel under a pseudonym, and though I like and and am quite proud of it, under the terms of my contract, I can't list it.) It's pretty clear from the length of the list that I've been doing this successfully for quite a few years.

I've written millions of published words of science fiction, high fantasy, urban fantasy, suspense/paranormal, YA, and a couple of books that are, frankly, just about impossible to categorize. I've also created a series of writing courses, done a hundred-thousand-plus words of writing articles and workshops on the web, and have written some short stories that have been published in collections, but I'm primarily a novelist, so I've just listed the novels. Looking at my list of publications, you wouldn't think I'd ever been blocked.

So how big a block could we possibly be talking here? Couple of weeks, a little bit of antsy-ness? Some artsy-fartsy angst while I hung out with my friends and bemoaned being stuck?

Not so much.

In 1995, I Would Have Quit Writing
If I'd Had Another Way to Pay the Bills

In September of 1994, I found out that my ex had been abusing our kids when they were over at his place. We're talking felony abuse here, for which he was eventually convicted. But there were no convictions in 1994 or in 1995. Instead, there were endless trips to the police for the kids to give their stories, countless trips to the therapist, trips to hospitals to gather evidence... It just never ended.

But there's more. During this time, I was supposed to be writing Glenraven with Marion Zimmer Bradley. However, not long after we signed the contracts, she ended up in the hospital with complications from a stroke and diabetes, and she wasn't able to do any writing. So the entire project, from conception through completion, fell on me.

The bills were pouring in, my second marriage imploded, my carefully nurtured savings died a hideous death.

And I blocked solid. I had a computer and contracts for several novels. Kids. Cats. Bills. A nice new house we'd bought that I could no longer afford. And I couldn't write a word of fiction to save my life. I hated writing. I hated trying to write. I especially hated failing to write.

I Lost the House.
But I Got My Writing Back.

I couldn't make the payments, and the kids and I ended up several states away, renting a rundown trailer I still think of as the Cockroach Cabana. I'd say worse things about the place, but I have a special fondness for it, actually. Awful as it was, it was where the kids and I found peace and solace, and built our new family.

And it was where I got my writing back.

Actually, it was where I took my writing back.

I went looking for my muse, determined that I was going to get Glenraven done by the contract date, or as close to it as I could manage. We needed the money, and that book was make-or-break. So were the three others I had contracted and lined up on the runway, stalled and waiting behind it.

I'm not sure how I came up with the technique I eventually used to beat my block. It didn't exactly appear to me as the skies opened up. But I know it worked. And I remember when it started working. I was sitting in the spare bedroom of that trailer, staring at my computer, needing to write, but playing solitaire because I didn't have any words. I was listening to the Rush CD Roll The Bones, and the song Bravado was playing.

One Line Kicked Me In the Head
And Woke Me Up

If the dream is won, but everything is lost...

I realized that I'd won my dream, but I was letting it slip away from me. I'd beaten the slush pile, I had a stack of signed contracts and a stack of waiting deadlines. I'd conquered the odds millions of other writers were still fighting against, and I was letting my shot at my dream die.

And I said, "The hell with this."

I sat thinking, in a very focused and specific fashion, and for a while the room around me and all the problems of the past year and all my struggles went away. After months of not communicating, suddenly my muse and I connected. As funny as it sounds, we were talking, and as we talked, I started writing, trying to find my way through the story. I now use this technique all the time.

The whole process was intense. I was, for about an hour, completely absorbed in my conversation with my muse, my subconscious, the heart of my writing---whatever you care to call it. I submerged myself into my search for my lost story, in connecting with the fragmentary start of a novel that had become alien to me. I came up with a way to get everything my muse was throwing at me down on paper---a second technique I use regularly to brainstorm ideas and kick writer's block out of my way.

Things clicked, and over the next few days, they kept clicking. I kept using my new techniques, I kept writing, and within about two months, I finished the book---a little late, but not a lot---and Glenraven went on to be very well reviewed, to sell steadily, and to introduce a whole new group of readers to my work.

I Wish I Could Say That
Magical Hour Stuck With Me

Writing deadlines can create stress, and so can late-paying publishers, and kids and neighbors and just life itself. From time to time I forgot to use the lessons I learned writing Glenraven. I never got hugely blocked again, but I did struggle. It took years, and me hitting a serious wall with Vengeance of Dragons, for me to come up with the third technique, one that gets me going every working day, and makes the whole process fun.

I take days off now. When deadlines permit, I take whole weeks off.

Muses need down time, and so do I. When I'm ready to write, I know I'll be able to. I believe in regular writing, but I don't believe in grinding out words like I was working for some corporate slave-driver.

When I write, I just about always have fun.

Are You Writing? Just As Importantly,
Are You Having Fun When You Write?

I've run across four types of real writer's block.

Complete Block, where the writer simply cannot put words on paper. Though sometimes it happens for no apparent reason, this tends to be the sort of block that hits when the writer's life has gone through a huge shock---death of a loved one; loss of a job; a major illness; a massive financial crisis; and on, and on. The things life can throw at us are endless, and the results on a writer's work can be devastating.
Inner Critic Block, where the writer is still writing, but hates every word that lands on the page, and ends up deleting everything sooner or later, moving from project to project without finishing anything.
Pages of Misery Block, in which the writer is getting pages, and managing to keep them, but is having a miserable time, every day, day in and day out. The writing is less fun than working in a cubicle farm, and the writer frequently questions why he or she is even doing this.
Chemical Block, in which the writer is taking anti-depressants or other medications---or using substances---that alter brain chemistry and that in some cases can completely kill writing.

There's a fifth kind of block, in which the writer dresses in black and goes to coffee houses and writers' meetings where he rolls his eyes and regales friends and anyone else who will listen with tales about the agonies he's suffering with his writer's block. This isn't real writer's block. This is Truman Capote Writer's Block, where the writer can get lots of sympathy and credit for being a writer without actually having to write. Very handy if the writer has a multi-million-dollar advance in the bank and just wants to party. Or where the individual has discovered that claiming to be a writer is a great way to meet girls, (or guys) but has also discovered that producing an actual manuscript is a lot of work.

However, I can't think of a single working writer I've known who's been blocked and who's introduced it as a topic of party conversation. Writers talk about writer's block in the same tones (and at the same volume) that men discuss erectile dysfunction. And for the same reasons.

The stuff we value ain't working, and we're in agony.

What Can I Do
To Help You?

Let me start by telling you what I can't do.

If you're dealing with a Chemical Block---that is, if your writing is blocked because of side effects of medication (or substance use)---this course will not help you right now. If you're blocked because of side effects from an antidepressant or other prescription medication, you're going to need to visit your doctor first, discuss different medications and alternative treatments, and see if, when you make changes in your medical treatment, diet, and exercise regimen, your writing comes back. With a lot of medications, creativity dropoff is a known problem, and if you inform your physician that it's an issue for you, there's a good chance he can help you figure out alternative ways to treat your medical issues.

If you're blocked because of a substance issue (drugs or alcohol) and you genuinely want to write, lose the habit.

If you're still blocked after you've dealt with the chemical issues, come back. I can help you then.

What I CAN do:

Help you break through your Pages Of Misery block and get you writing again, and show you how to have a wonderful time doing it.
If, every time you sit down at the computer, you find yourself hating life, even if you're still getting words, I can help. If writing feels like something you have to do, rather than something you want to do, I can help.
Help you shut up your Inner Critic and get you doing uncritical, spontaneous first drafts.
You'll get a lot more good material to work with in your revisions than your previous labored drafts where you questioned every word. If you look at every word you tap out and mutter, "The Great American Novel never included that word," only to delete your work word by word or page by page, I can help. If you stall, struggling for a first sentence or a next sentence, if you're certain you're not a good enough writer to commit words to the page, I can help.
Help you get past the trauma of Complete Block to relocate your muse, relocate your ideas, and relocate your joy in creating stories and putting words on the page.
If your life lately reads like something you'd watch on Oprah, (or worse, Jerry Springer), or if you just cannot get yourself to write anything, I can help. If writing is a weight on your shoulders, and when you think about it, you just about can't breathe, I can help.

If you truly want to get your writing back, I can help you.

In most cases, in about an hour.

I'm tired of being blocked.
Help me fix it right now.

If you are serious, really serious, about breaking your writer's block, then you need Holly Lisle's How to Beat Writer's Block. With a no-excuses attitude and a unique combination of techniques that she uses herself, Holly will help you break down your block, not just for now but forever. In a little over one hour, How to Beat Writer's Block helped me clear a weeks-long block and get writing again. I now know that I can beat writer's block any time in one hour. This course is the best investment in my writing career I ever made.

Carter Nipper, Georgia
www.carternipper.com

Beat writer's block in one hour?

Yes. Beat writer's block in one hour.

Cora Anderson The course was extraordinarily effective, in terms of speed; I started out dead blocked, and after I finished listening to the audio files I wound up opening my word processor and writing for ten minutes, and producing seven hundred words immediately, without pain or struggle.

It was remarkable.

[One technique] was shockingly effective. I 'saw' the muse in my mind's eye very clearly, and found myself reacting to him as a real, living, independent being immediately; more to the point, I found that association very helpful in regaining a sense of excitement and wonder about my writing and my story.

I didn't come to the course with many expectations, so it's hard to stack the expectations up with the reality. I will say that I found it considerably *more* helpful than, for instance, the Plot Clinic -- which isn't to say that the Plot Clinic was unhelpful at all, but that the Breaking Writer's Block course surpassed it. (The Plot Clinic class gave me a handful of useful tools, but the Block course gave me energy, which is both rarer and more universally applicable.)

Cora Anderson, Washington, US
coraa.livejournal.com

I've mentioned that I write for a living. That means when I'm not writing, I'm edging toward not feeding my family, not keeping a roof over our heads, not paying the bills, not making it. I've been there once. I don't ever want to go there again.

I don't have time to play games with writer's block. I need to be able to work, and work well, every time I sit down to write.
And I need to have the process be enjoyable, because there's nothing like drudgery to kill creativity.

I've developed a system that in most cases takes about an hour, because that's the amount of time I'm willing to sacrifice. I'm assuming that you would rather end the pain of being blocked as quickly as possible, too.

So I'll talk you through it.

I've been "threatening" to write a book since I was 12. I love to read and I've always played with characters in my head -- the laws of gravity aren't quite as unforgiving between the ears.

As I said, I have threatened that I would write a book about one thing or another. I talked about it. I've started about 500,000 times. I've quit 500,000 times.

I just couldn't get the book written. I could write e-mail until it was coming out the wazoo, even though I am limited to using voice recognition to get the words down -- even though VR technology still doesn't work like it does on Star Trek!

I spent about an hour with Holly Lisle's package while her for voice walked me through Beat Writers Block. It was fun and adaptable for those of us with mobility impairments. I am writing again, slowly but confidently.

I am regaining a sense of playfulness with writing. It's NICE not to dread the time I want to devote to my novels.

I actually found out that my voice recognition software may be something of "my second muse." It occasionally pops in like a mischievous gremlin to change what I've done. Sometimes those changes spark whole new directions and ideas.

I'm working on my first novel, or at least the first novel that I'm confident that I can complete. It's something of a "love note" to my Mother, fiction since biography felt like I was "looking up my Mother's skirts." I'm actually having fun with this, looking forward to working!

Lisa Stapp
blssdndcnt.blogspot.com

When you buy Holly Lisle's How To Beat
Writer's Block (And Have FUN Writing From Now On), you'll get:

Short, Sweet, and To The Point: 2:04 min.
The course introduction.

Commit Or Get Off The Pot: 11:04 min.
If you really WANT to write, you have to commit totally...but it isn't hard. It's just tricky. I'll get you through the tricky part.
If It Hurts, You're Doing It Wrong: 10:28 min.
The walkthrough I used to break my block in 1995, which will connect you with your muse and get you focused on writing again in about ten minutes.
Get Creatively Lost, And Found: 5:46 min.
The technique I use that will, in ten to twenty minutes, give you dozens of ideas on how to fix the problem you're having with your current project, or give you dozens of ideas for new projects---whichever you need right now.
Take Your Muse For A Run: 11:41 min.
My walkthrough in getting your ideas on paper--quickly and enjoyably.
See Yourself Writing With Wings: 4:19 min.
Four-minute daily coaching that will allow you to keep the writing fun every day.
Set Firm Limits To Free Your Mind: 9:03 min.
Follow-up tips, pointers, suggestions, and inspiration that will keep you from getting blocked again.
Write Like A Wild Thing: 6:21min.
How and why this works, how to make it work for you.
How to Beat Writer's Block Handbook: PDF.
Very short, mostly the forms you'll use to keep up with your new directions and new ideas. No heavy theory, no long, dry reads.
YOUR FREE BONUS: 21 Ways To Get Yourself Writing When Your Life Has Just Exploded: PDF.
This report is the first entry in my new CRITICAL SKILLS SERIES and on its own, it sells for $9.95.
You'll find it helpful with any block, but especially if you're suffering from Complete Block because life recently decided to use you for target practice. It's an entire stack of my techniques for using the trauma in your life to write better books---techniques you can instantly apply to your own writing, which will give you at least twenty-one new writing directions right now.
Free Downloads of Future Updates:
I tinker with products. I add extras as I think of them or as users ask questions I discover I haven't addressed. As products get bigger and offer more, the price goes up. However, I like my readers and my customers, so we have this deal. When you buy from me, that's the only price you ever pay for the course. You can log into your account at any time and download the upgraded version of anything you've bought from me.

Total course running time: 60 minutes 42 seconds.

Part of the time you're listening, you'll also be writing. I won't waste your time, I won't meander or load you up with useless theory.

I'll talk you through fixing it, and you'll fix while I talk. Short and sweet.

And Now For the Hard Sell (Not)

This is the place where I'm supposed to do some arm twisting to get you to buy today, right now, Holy Hand Grenades, Batman!, before Time. Runs. Out. I'm supposed to tell you this price is only going to be available for a few days, or the first one hundred customers.

I'm not going to do that. When I figure out how to add more value to the course (extra information, or making it a physical rather than a downloadable product), I'll increase the price. It'll happen when it happens. (When you buy the current version, you DO get to download upgrades at no charge, even when the price goes up.)

So why should you get your copy today?

I figure, if you have writer's block, getting rid of your writer's block today is incentive enough.

This method is what works for me. It's worked for folks you just heard from who also bought the course, and who are writing again. Writer's block is FIXABLE.

If you've had enough of the misery, if you want to get your words back, if you want to have fun writing again, order now.

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I do actually have a limited-time offer for you, but that's so my partners will have something cool to offer you that you can't get anywhere else.

If you buy here today, you'll be able to get How To Beat Writer's Block (And Have FUN Writing From Now On) for the debut price of $59.95.

PLUS all four downloadable Holly Lisle's Writing Clinics:

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Create A Plot Clinic,
Create A Language Clinic,
and Create A Culture Clinic)

...for $19.95---regular price on the clinics is $39.80, a savings of $19.80.

About 50% off.

The clinics will help you write more, write deeper and richer, generate a ton of new ideas, and keep everything organized, too. I've never offered them for such a low price (essentially buy two, get two free), and this offer is just for a few days.

Plus you'll get your free copy of CRITICAL SKILLS SERIES #1--How To Get Yourself Writing When Your Life Has Just Exploded, regularly priced at $9.95.

The Big Beat Writer's Block Package

Umm... Do You Offer A Guarantee?

Of Course. If You Haven't Beaten Your Writer's Block In 30 Days, I'll Let You Keep The Course For Free.

Can I help you beat your writer's block, or just enjoy the process of sitting down and writing regularly? I'm sure I can, but I want you to be sure, too.

Try the program at my risk. It comes with a 100%, no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee.

If you follow the instructions in this course and don't see results in your first 30 days, I'll let you keep the entire course for free.

All you have to do is TRY it for 30 days (Yes, sit down and listen to the audio and do the exercises and dare to fight for your writing dream... don't just order it and then be too afraid to give it your best shot!) and if you aren't getting words on the page again, I'll refund your transaction and you get to keep the course just for trying.

There is absolutely no way that you can lose - except by not taking a chance on yourself and your dream by trying Holly Lisle's How To Beat Writer's Block, And Have FUN Writing From Now ON.

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