Rewritten the same chapters over and over and then one more time
Read your scenes back and thought, this doesn’t even make sense
Jumped between random ideas that didn’t connect
Avoided your story for months because it felt too overwhelming
You and your story aren’t the problem. Unhelpful advice is the problem.
Most writing advice says to just keep writing! Don’t worry if it’s a mess! Use a beat sheet! Struggling is part of the process!
Um, but you HAVE tried all that.
And in the meantime…
Years have gone, and you hate that your book still isn’t done
You feel like a failure when family members ask you about it
You’re starting to doubt whether you’ll ever hold a finished copy in your hands
And, at night, when it’s quiet, you wonder, maybe I’m just not good enough
But you ARE good enough.
After spending 10 years on two novels that felt impossible to finish, I threw my hands in the air and was like, there has GOT to be a better way.
And the more I talked with other writers, the more I realized we’re all hitting the same problems over and over.
So I created a better way.
One where you:
See your story come together in days, not months
Know your story works before you write 300 pages
Finish a story you’re really proud of
It’s called the Story Milestones Method.
And in the last 10 months alone, it’s helped 200+ writers go from feeling like they can’t do it to…literally doing it.
Take Marcella. She spent two years guessing what should happen in the middle. Three days into Story Milestones, she knew exactly what should happen.
You can too.