If you expect this book to tell you how to write the bestseller of the year, put it down and step away from the shelf. However, if you want to learn how to start, how to keep going when everything goes wrong, and how to find your voice again when you think you’ve lost it, then don’t let it out of your hands.

In these pages, you won’t discover magical recipes for success, but you will find the truth of two authors who share the same love for writing and have battled the same monsters for years.

Together, we will learn how to begin, how to keep going, and how not to throw our manuscript into the recycling bin every nightfall. And all this with exercises, examples, small writing failures (that became lessons), and large doses of honesty.

The book you are holding is not (just) a writing guide. It is an anti-manifesto of panic for all those who have stared at a blank page and felt it staring back at them ironically. Because stories are not written by those who are unafraid, but by those who are afraid—very much so—yet keep writing because they simply can’t do otherwise.