Writing COACH

Writer’s block?

Creative impasse?

Is art imitating life?

Rather than looking at the craft of writing as the author telling a story, I place the burden back on the muse. The design of the story is to transform the author, and the writing itself a testament to that transformation.

When guiding clients through the writing process, I work with the story-teller’s mythic journey as a means of unlocking the story’s trajectory. It is a skill inspired by the mystic priests of the Q’eros tradition in the Peruvian Andes with whom I studied.

These medicine men and women draw maps of consciousness to plot where energy is flowing and where it’s stuck in order to help people break through blocks in their health, relationships and destiny. They then guide them to plot new points at the mythic level to allow these changes to flow into ordinary life.

Cartographers of the soul

I use a similar process to chart how a story is tracking in ‘the field’. After studying at the Four Winds Society, I have now adapted this practice to take advantage of my experience as a writer and editor. I draw out the story that wants to be told.

We will co-create a mythic map to see how the energy is flowing, where it is flourishing, and where it is stagnating; and then make precise changes to facilitate a more harmonious narrative flow. 

Let’s co-create! Reach out for an exploratory session.

I liken ghostwriting to the shamanic concept of shapeshifting. Both require the surrender of one’s ego, and both require a total immersion in the worldview of another.

The science of high sensitivity has given me an evidence-based insight into why I have an intuitive ability to capture the mood of a room and the hidden motivations of people with such acuity. Highly sensitive people (HSPs) absorb more information from their environment and by necessity process that information deeply.

The EQ of highly sensitive people can be tapped as a resource to make tangential connections across events.

As a ghostwriter, I am sensitive to the authentic voice of the author, the nuances of their expression, and the primacy of their perspective. In essence, I serve their needs, not my own.

My passion for psychology and spirituality gives me a unique perspective on how to read between the lines and even how to interpret a pause. A subject’s cadence of speech and tonal emphasis can reveal more than a raw transcript might indicate.

I still have an ear for editing breaks (splice and dub cuts) from my early days as a radio journalist. I know where the cut took place. It stands as a metaphor for the total attention I pay to all the parts that comprise a speech, address, or informal conversation. Nothing escapes my notice.