STOP Not Writing: A No B.S. Guide to Avoid the Avoidance Tricks of a Non-writing Writer

by B.J. Thompson

Learn How to Retrain Your Brain to Become the Prolific Writer You've Always Wanted to Be...You're a writer. You know you are.You love words.You love stories.But you can't write.You've tried everything. You start, you stop and you drop... every work you've ever tried. And they all, more or less, lay incomplete.By now, you feel frustrated and paralyzed but your passion still smoulders...STOP the cycle.STOP the bad habits.STOP all the excuses.Start reading STOP Not Writing now.STOP Not Writing will give you Actionable Tools to eradicate 22 Known Writing Issues that you can easily learn and put into practice NOW - not later, not some day, but Right Now - that will get you from writer's paralysis to writing prolific.No B.S.No buzzwords.No elitist jargon.No enabling.Just good, old, time and experienced-tested exercises that WILL CHANGE YOUR MINDSET from, "I wish I could..." to, "I am!"Enter STOP Not Writing's virtual Boot Camp with me, your virtual Drill Sergeant, B.J. Thompson - Language Arts graduate, free-lance editor, literary novelist and leader of a writer's process group since 2009 - and I'll promise you won't regret it.I have no time for flowery hand holding or theoretical "How To" crap. And neither do you.Want to Start Writing, NOW, for real and forever?Start reading STOP Not Writing like your literary life depends on it.Let's stop talking about writing and let's get to work.Are you in? I'm drafting YOU. Enlist!

Genres: Writing

112 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2019

About the author

Barbara Thompson is a retired public relations liaison and currently a Calgary, Canada-based freelance editor and author of three literary/historical novels; No More Blood - Epilogue to the life of Truman Capote & In Cold Blood, Eighteen Minutes to the Beast - a Nixon Watergate Thriller, and Sessions - Predator vs. Shrink Who will survive?

The overriding theme in Barbara's work concerns the process of death, whether it be death of an historical icon, an idea or an event, her works cover those final moments when ultimate truth plays the only role. Barbara’s preferred way to tell a tale is through the Non-Fiction Novel approach; whereby iconic people and/or milestone moments in the past are tweaked and warped ever so slightly to reveal an answer to a long-held mystery or a societal question, folding in fictional characters and locales to more colour the story and give it a rich feel and vibrant atmosphere, to better weave the fantasy within the reality.

Barbara grew up in the Lake Country District of southern Ontario, Canada. The only child to an RCMP Constable father and Industrial Accountant mother who grew up very Anglo-Saxon, very Northern Irish. Funeral wakes were a large part of Barbara's life, starting at the tender age of three, so death—its meaning and role in life—took centre stage. With Barbara’s B. A. Degree in Language Arts and her subsequent career in Communications, once retired, writing on life's final moments was inevitable.

Barbara has done extensive travelling and now lives to swim, hike and fish in the Rocky Mountains, enjoy friends and family, leads an avant garde writers group likened on the 1920s Montparnasse style, and pen her tales on either side of Cocktail Hour.

Barbara’s upcoming historical epic, entitled AIR, tells of six US Navy sailors in 1941 as they try to hold on to life after the USS Oklahoma capsizes in Pearl Harbor. All six, trapped below the sea, find out there can be far worse things in life than death. AIR is due to be released in late 2019.

Reviews

[Pat Stanford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical in a Snarky Way

I laughed out loud when I saw the title of this one. Why? Because it is so me.

I am fighting writing my third book with excuses like, "I don't think I can pull it off. I have a #1 Amazon best seller, and another book with 2 gold medals. So what can this author possibly do or to say to me?"

Turns out - a lot.

She is snarky, Ill give her that. I love snarky, so she had me at the get go. But she also gives practical advice to those of us who like to find excuses not to write when we know we should be.

You will enjoy this book. Get it!

[A'Sian Starr Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I Needed That

Very quick read that is straight to the point with practical exercises that is doable. I fell off the writing path for some time but I feel this book gave me the swift kick in the butt that I needed. I have two writing days under my belt so far, thanks B.J.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ideas

Full of ideas and an action plan to get moving on your creative project. No fluff, just solid advice for writers.