Writer's Rehab - D. B. Giles

Writers Rehab is designed to be a comprehensive self-help book in the form of a 12-step program for writers dealing with emotional or psychological roadblocks with their writing. - - For writers of all genres who've lost their way, are floundering, questioning their talent, filled with self-doubt, suffering from addiction, envy, depression, procrastination, and other challenges, this book is designed to help them nurse themselves back to creative mental health. - -
Writers can use the book as a source to deal with the numerous scenarios they encounter: being stifled creatively, running into mental walls, losing confidence, and experiencing writer's block to the point of depression and creative collapse. -
Author is a veteran script consultant who has worked with more than 2,000 writers. In his role as writing coach he also acted as therapist, shoulder-to-cry-on and hand-holder to many of his clients, listening to their problems and helping them confront what was preventing them from writing. -
Author is himself a writer with first-hand experience at overcoming writer's block, disappointment, depression, frustration, and disillusion, on the path to a successful writing career. -
Author continues to make use of social media with a continually growing database of people who have read his books and articles, former students, clients, and new writers seeking his advice. -
Writers Rehab is the next best thing to being part of a writers support group or going into therapy.