Books to Get You Out of Your Own Way

These books are more for motivation in general or for helping to clear psychological and other blocks to progress/success than actual writing advice.

Attwood, Chris & Janet — The Passion Test — Good for helping you identify where you really want to be and changing your focus to help you get there.

Mundis, Jerrold — Break Writer’s Block Now — Helps change your thinking about your writing productivity and thus, gets you out of your own way. Expensive but I expect I’ll conclude it was worth it.

Pressfield, Steven — “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles” — Not an ordinary book about block, because in addition to dealing with block, it talks about the difference between living up to your true self (doing the thing you know you’re ’supposed’ to do, which is possible once you get past resistance) and living a life of unsatisfied desperation.