Don't fear the blank page; it fears you.

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. If, however, 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 go of it.

In these pages you won't discover magic 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 start, how to keep going, and how not to throw our manuscript in the recycling bin every night. And all this with exercises, examples, small writing failures (that became lessons), and large doses of honesty.

The book you hold in your hands is not (only) a writing guide. It is an anti-panic manifesto for all those who have stared at the blank page and felt it mockingly stare back. Because stories are not written by those who aren't afraid, but by those who are very afraid, yet continue to write because they can't do otherwise.