The secret ingredient missing from your writing life 🤝

Published 28 days ago • 1 min read

Reading time: 26 seconds

Writing is solo sport, kinda like marathon running.

You sit. You type. You stare at the screen. Alone.

I think that's one reason we feel like we're "blocked," the isolation doesn't lend itself to circulation (especially not of words).

When I first started writing, I did not fancy myself a writer and didn't know there were other writes--just like me--trying to figure it all out. Man, was I excited to find them! (You know who you are!)

I had a picture of what real writers did, and it was (among other things) that they just sit down and write. They had a background in journalism or had taken tons of writing classes or whatever.

Then I discovered a podcast and it not only changed how I saw myself (yes, I was a real writer!), it gave me what I didn't even know I wanted:

A community of other writers.

Suddenly, I had:

Mentors who validated that I was doing some things right, and helped me see what I could be doing better (shoutout to the guy who told me my first book was "shit"—best advice ever!)
Friends who understood the struggle (Deborah Coonts telling me I was a "real writer" meant the world)
Other writers who celebrated my wins and helped keep me sane when I was struggling

When I built a community of other writers around me:

📈 My word count and productivity skyrocketed

💡 My ideas multiplied because I was having cool conversations (one of my co-authors called it "idea sex" 🤭)

🎉 My motivation stayed hi!

🚀 My books got done!

Chapter Seven of There Is No Such Thing as Writer's Block is dedicated entirely to building your writer community:

✨ How to find mentors (even famous ones!)

✨ Making genuine writer friends (not just networking)

✨ Conferences that actually matter

✨ The art of reaching out (without being weird)

Plus, my exact three-step process for connecting with writers you admire.

Learn How to Build Your Personal
Writer Community Starting Today

Tomorrow: The final piece of the puzzle—cracking your personal writer's code.

Together is better,

Honorée Corder.
Author. Executive Book Producer.

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