Okay. I have a new test for every author system you’ve ever bought, built, downloaded, color-coded, or rage-quit:

What does it tell you to do after a bad week?

Not on the beautiful Monday when you’re rested, when the book and your muse are behaving, nobody needs anything, and your brain decides to cooperate.

No. I’m talking about after the ball-buster deadline at work. After the sick kid. After the scene that wouldn’t come together. After you’ve spent seven days taking care of everything except the thing you promised yourself you would protect this time. Because this is where most writing systems suddenly have nothing useful to say.

You miss a day? Catch up.

You miss a week? Just work harder.

You lose momentum? Try being a better writer because a real author wouldn’t be this easily de-railed.

What?! What kind of system beats us up for being human?

The book mill system tells you that you’re inconsistent, undisciplined, and maybe you just weren’t good enough.

Except—no.

If you have five, ten, or fifteen published books sitting on your shelf, the shelf has already settled the question of whether you can finish.

You can.

The repeating breakdown isn’t evidence that you can’t do the work. It’s evidence that your current process only knows how to operate under ideal conditions.

You don’t have a sustainable writing system.

You have a good-week system.

A sustainable process isn’t one you never leave. It’s one that knows how to bring you back.

That’s what I want to help you find.

I’m making room for more free Unstuck Author Calls this week.

Bring me the unfinished draft. The abandoned launch plan. The marketing strategy eating all your writing energy. The slipping income. The giant pile of things you’ve tried that worked for nine days and then fell apart.

You do not need to organize it before we talk. The mess is useful.

I’ll listen for the pattern, help you identify whether the real block is in the book, your writing process, your capacity, or the business you’re trying to build around it—and show you the first thing I think needs to change.

If Write Like You’re Wired is the right place to build that change, I’ll show you what working together would look like.

If it isn’t, I’ll tell you that too.

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You don’t need to prove you’re worth helping before you get on the call.

Bring me the mess.

Look, we know that resetting our minds means resetting how we eat, too. This body is a vessel but if we don’t take care of it, how can we work?

This is generic advise that I had to implement on myself this last week. When I get depressed, I tend to eat… cereal and the same thing for breakfast and dinner. So, if this rings for you, great. If not, who cares because I needed to hear this.

But since I’m trying to make being an author a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE, I’m going to continue to include this… and more.

Workout

Look, sitting around a lot actually ages your body. Here’s a quick video that I found that helps move the body. I’ve got so many more because… JFC, I am too young to feel this damned old.

My YouTube Channel

I talk more in-depth about what sustainability has to look like with all the personalities because a one-size-fits-all approach can’t work.

Look, I’m refusing to quit because I don’t want to and I don’t want you to. I don’t have it all figured out, but I’m not letting that stop me, either. So, if you’re interested in figuring out how to write more sustainably so you can create a living from something you enjoy doing, I’m hear to rally with you, develop tools to help you, and help you create a system that will keep you writing as you live your life.

Frankie

P.S. Ask your current writing plan one question: If I disappear for seven days, what exactly am I supposed to do on day eight? If the answer is “catch up” or “just work harder,” let’s talk because that’s buuuuullshit.