Important for a Beginning Writer to Know
Writing is an aspect of your creativity and your relationship to yourself. The journey is different for everyone, and depends on more than your writing experience and facility with fiction writing techniques. Often, it is your Inner Critic that stops you from developing as a writer. I take this into account when I develop a writing program for you.
I teach you technique through a teaching method that I call The Five Ingredients of the Scene.
You learn the power of the five ingredients by writing. I never teach in the abstract. I am not someone who stands in front of a class and didactically talks about fiction writing technique. You learn by doing and understanding naturally follows.
During our sessions, we work with your first draft material. I love first draft material because it hold such hidden gems and the possibilities are cosmic!
Having fun is perhaps the most important aspect of our work.
When you are having fun exploring characters and story line, when you happily opening up the jewels that lay hidden in your early drafts, when you are taking risks with your writing and not caring what your Inner Critic thinks, then you are home free! This is where my teaching and support takes you!
- There is no magic to writing fiction. All the techniques can be taught and I know how to teach them.
- The real mystery of fiction writing lies in the untold characters, plots and landscapes of your imagination! Imagination can't be taught. It must be unleashed. I know how do unleash your imagination and the writer in you!
- You’ve had an incredible life, you have amazing insights into the human condition, and even if you are a 95 years old, I bet you have some great stories. I love to work with beginning writers!
Writing is an aspect of your creativity and your relationship to yourself. The journey is different for everyone, and depends on more than your writing experience and facility with fiction writing techniques. Often, it is your Inner Critic that stops you from developing as a writer. I take this into account when I develop a writing program for you.
I teach you technique through a teaching method that I call The Five Ingredients of the Scene.
You learn the power of the five ingredients by writing. I never teach in the abstract. I am not someone who stands in front of a class and didactically talks about fiction writing technique. You learn by doing and understanding naturally follows.
During our sessions, we work with your first draft material. I love first draft material because it hold such hidden gems and the possibilities are cosmic!
Having fun is perhaps the most important aspect of our work.
When you are having fun exploring characters and story line, when you happily opening up the jewels that lay hidden in your early drafts, when you are taking risks with your writing and not caring what your Inner Critic thinks, then you are home free! This is where my teaching and support takes you!