Why traditional writing advice doesn’t work
Most traditional writing blogs today are inane, outdated, and just generally unhelpful.
You know the ones - the ones that talk about plot points and characterisation, sentence structure and three story arcs. These blogs have their purpose (for a small segment of well adjusted creatives looking to expand their education), but they're next to useless for the issues that way more writers actually need help with, like creative blocks and feelings of worthlessness.
When I'm stuck on a project, I have never gone to a traditional writing craft blog, read an article and been like: "Oh wow! I'm cured now!"
If knowledge on its own was enough to inspire action and destroy writing blocks, everyone and their mothers would have written a book by now. Writing craft blogs just aren’t enough. Never have been, never will be. And I’ll tell you why:
They don’t speak to the part of you that’s scared.
Writing takes so much more than facts and figures and we all know this. And therefore, it’s not craft posts we need —
It’s courage.
