A Free 5-Day Writing Challenge to Rise Above Self-Sabotage
may 12 - 16
Self-sabotage is the biggest obstacle you face to realizing your writing dreams.
Your writer's brain is both your biggest asset and your biggest liability....It’s the source of all your talent, and simultaneously responsible for holding you back.
Gaining control of your mindset is the key to finishing books you start—and building your audience.
In the Mind Over Manuscript Challenge, we’ll spend 5 days learning and using the best mindset tools to keep your writing going and your inner saboteur sidelined.
The Mind Over Manuscript Challenge includes:
Daily mindset lessons and live coaching
Journal prompts and exercises to loosen the grip of your inner saboteur
Daily progress on your manuscript and accountability from your fellow writers
There's no better way to end self-sabotage than mindset coaching WHILE you are taking action.
You’ll choose a simple goal for the week that will move you forward on your current manuscript and get the mindset tools you need to actually sit down and do the work. (Yes, I’ll give you guidance on what makes a good challenge goal.)
During this 5-day challenge, you will learn…
Day 1: The importance of the story you tell yourself + live group coaching
Day 2: How to loosen the grip of your inner saboteur + live group coaching
Day 3: How to deal with external obstacles to your writing + group coaching
Day 4: Who you want to be vs. what you want to do + group coaching
Day 5: How to make a plan to keep going + group coaching
This challenge is the best place to start for anyone wanting to show up for their writing and themselves.
“Things have been going better than they have in probably a decade! For the first time in a long time, I feel like I’m making progress towards my ideal schedule. I cannot begin to tell you what a relief this is. This work is an absolute game changer. A thousand times, thank you!”
“You’ve given me a blueprint, a template, that I can now make my own in terms of goal getting that I didn’t have before.”
“I was making my world so small because I was always giving away my power…I was able to rewire my brain to retake control over what’s really important to me.”
“I was able to give myself permission to honor my ‘why’ and what drives me to write. I was able to sit down and push everything else aside and focus on what is driving me for my writing.”
“I’d been struggling to find the motivation and organization needed to revise a messy draft #1 for almost a year. With Sue’s guidance and support, I managed to complete the full draft #2 of my first novel, in just three months! This was a total game-changer.”
Plus, win some fun prizes!
Throughout the challenge, you’ll have the chance to win…
GRAND PRIZE:
Six months in the Happily Ever Author Club
Bullet journals
Laurel Denise planners
meet your hosts
Hi, I’m Sue Campbell
I’m a marketing and mindset coach who’s helped hundreds of writers overcome inhibiting mindsets so they could finish their manuscripts, grow their platforms and sell more books.
I’m also a writer who used to tell myself terribly disempowering stories that had me completely blocked until I was around thirty years old.
While solving my own creative self-sabotage, I started helping others do the same, founding Pages & Platforms in 2018. We helped writers write the best story possible and find an audience for it, but in order to do that, most of my work was getting writers out of their own way. In 2022, I decided to make my unofficial therapist role for my clients a bit more official by becoming a certified life coach.
The challenge will also be supported by two of the best developmental editors out there:
Rachelle Ramirez helps writers develop their stories and believes stories are our most important catalyst for change. She has an MA in psychology from Goddard College and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Masters in Creative Writing Program on merit scholarship. Before becoming a developmental editor, she served as a mental health counselor and as the executive director of a national writing community.
Anne Hawley is a third-generation native Oregonian, a graduate of Portland State University. When she's not editing stories, she's writing them, reading them, researching them, or analyzing them on The Editor Roundtable Podcast. She specializes in helping writers discover the heart of the story they’re trying to tell so that they can tell it more beautifully. She's the author of Restraint, a love story set in 19th Century London.
Through running webinars, workshops, the Happily Ever Author community, private coaching clients and Goal Getter School for Authors, we’ve developed a toolkit to help writers overcome self-sabotage and reach goals they’ve been procrastinating for years.
Now we want to share it with you.
Join us for the Mind Over Manuscript Challenge, and make your dream of creating a reliable writing habit a reality!
Join us May 12-16 and say goodbye to self-sabotage!
see what last year’s attendees had to say
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This week was wonderful. I feel like I’m finally accepting who I am, and who I can be one day. It’s funny, somehow accepting myself as I am opened up all this space within to explore new things. I’m able to write now without judgement, and I’m curious to see where my writing takes me! Thank you to the hosts and panelists for making this possible, and to everyone here for being so generously vulnerable and uplifting! I’ve loved the live sessions, and am looking forward to catching up on the replays 🙂
— Divya
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I had a goal to get unstuck on my novel and move forward in the messy middle with 5K more words. Having set that goal publicly and being accountable with a daily update, made me sit in the chair and just write - not edit, not polish, just write forward. I’m happy to report that so far I’ve written 5,384 words not including today’s 1K - which WILL get written. That makes me a very happy camper. Plus, I got a whole lot clearer on my ending. Hooray!! Thanks Sue. Awesome challenge.
— Kristin
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Was the kick in the pants I needed. I’d finally found some folks to start a SHEG group with (literally my favorite day), but I still was having trouble writing because it needed to be perfect. Now I’m making progress, and it’s getting easier.
— Courtney
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This challenge was just what I needed to kick procrastination and laziness to the curb. For months I’ve been tinkering here and there, mostly relaxing, unwilling to risk burnout again. But like Edward Kenway says in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, “It ain’t work if you love it.” I’ve switched genres and am more in love with writing than I’ve been in a long time. My goal was to write 10K words this week and ended up with over 13K, and I’m still writing! I’m still excited about the story and am looking forward to writing future novels in the series. Doubts be damned! I can do this!😁
— Lois