Crossroads Publishing Group
The Difficulty Field Guide · Free
Eight difficulties every working writer faces.
A small field guide for working writers. Not a system, not a method, not advice. Just the eight choice-points every writer, artist, or maker doing real work will recognize, and a set of questions worth asking yourself when each one shows up. Twenty-four pages. Yours by email.
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What's inside
The premise: most of the hard moments in a creative life are not technique problems. They're choice problems. And the choices recur. The same eight or so shapes, in different costumes, across the years.
- The work that pays, and the work that matters.
- Finish what you started, or start what you really want.
- Voice or audience.
- Stay or pivot.
- The life on the page.
- Ship or polish.
- The reader you imagined, and the reader who showed up.
- Persist or quit.
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