When I'm coaching writers, whether in Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) training, or straight coaching there's always one thing we need to overcome before the writer can use his skills effectively: FEAR.

Fear kills creativity, and unless you make your own accommodations with your terror, you'll never be the writer you could be.

Here's how to overcome your fear.

* If you're procrastinating, create a mind map and chunk your writing project down into itty bitty tasks you can complete in ten minutes;

* If you don't know how to write something, get a model to see how it's done, and/ or ASK. If you're one of my writing students, you KNOW I'm always here for you;

* Schedule your writing time, and then write when you're supposed to be writing. Once you've written it, you can fix it (that's called editing). BTW, researching is NOT writing :-);

* Meditate. If you don't know how, get a book or a teacher. Ten or 20 minutes of meditation a day clears the junk out of your mind and lets you focus -- I'm much more creative when I meditate than when I don't. If you have an iPhone/ iPod touch, I recommend the Mindfulness app, it's great;

* PLAY. Writing should be fun. When it stops being fun, stop writing -- you're making things worse when you try to force yourself.

Links:

Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) http://sellwritingnow.com/Home/training.html

Coaching: http://angelabooth.com/For-Writers/For-Writers/coaching.html