Street Writers: a writer's survival kit

Street Writers: 10 Minutes of Writing Motivation, Inspiration, and Hacktivation

Writing is hard. We toughen you up for the long brawl - with jokes, mighty metaphors, and the occasional battle over whether Hemingway would've used a Pomodoro timer.

Based on the long-running podcast Street Writers, this book is your pocket-sized creative shove: part craft guide, part therapy session, part kick in the ass. Authors Dan Chichester and Mark Bellusci - award-winning copywriters, screenwriters, content creators, and seasoned vets of the word wars - deliver sharp, funny, and relentlessly honest takes on what it really means to write.

It's not a how-to book. It's a why-aren't-you book.

Whether you're just starting out, grinding through another draft, fending off feedback, or desperately Googling "what's the point of writing anymore," this book meets you where you are - with advice that doesn't sugarcoat the struggle. Instead, it wrestles it to the ground, buys it a coffee, and tells it to get back to work.

Inside, you'll find:

• Tips that work - From avoiding clichés to dealing with writer's block, procrastination, and the existential crisis of seeing someone write your idea better than you.

• Behind-the-scenes reality - From pitching, critiquing, and finishing your work (yes, finishing - that coffee is for closers).

• Guest insights - From acclaimed writers, editors, buddhist teachers, Academy Award winners, and narrative designers who know how to take the punch, dodge the contract clause, and keep the pipeline filled.

• Real talk - On surviving rejection, protecting your creative energy, and remembering why you even do this crazy thing in the first place.

All of it delivered in quick-hit chapters - because you've got writing to do.

Whether you're a fiction writer, copywriter, screenwriter, or someone just trying to write something without throwing your laptop against a wall, Street Writers is your toolbox and a pep talk rolled into one. Pick it up when the words aren't flowing. Or when they are, and you want to make them better.

No fluff. No guru-speak. No excuses. Just writing - 10 minutes at a time.