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Episode 20: Five Common Barriers to Growing Your Writing Practice and How to Move Past Them

Episode 20: Five Common Barriers to Growing Your Writing Practice and How to Move Past Them

Update: 2025-10-27
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Do you ever promise yourself you'll write tomorrow—and then tomorrow never comes? In this episode of Write, Writer, Write! Deborah Froese explores five common barriers that keep writers from developing a steady, satisfying practice. From time and energy depletion to perfectionism and loss of purpose, you'll find practical ways to meet each challenge with self-compassion and curiosity instead of judgment.

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Find out the details https://deborahfroese.substack.com/p/join-the-manuscript-momentum-challenge. It begins on November 1, 2025. Forget perfection. Promise you'll show up, stay steady, and build momentum, because that's how you'll grow as a writer. The challenge is free, and you have the opportunity to receive one of three reviews of up to 10 pages of your writing.

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Episode 20: Five Common Barriers to Growing Your Writing Practice and How to Move Past Them

Episode 20: Five Common Barriers to Growing Your Writing Practice and How to Move Past Them

Deborah Froese