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With the right guideposts, even writing for fifteen minutes is a dynamic meditation that also produces something tangible.
If sitting still has never worked for you, a writing practice can. Because your hands are moving and words are landing on the page, your focus has something to organize around.
Whether you're new to writing or you write every day but the work has gone flat and you can't figure out why, this practice can help.
Book a free 30-minute call"Stephen has a unique capacity for listening that allows him to understand the feeling that I'm struggling to communicate, and sometimes blindly seeking, in my writing. On many occasions, with a few insightful words he's helped me clarify and amplify my connection to my true and powerful voice."
Shawn N.
Most people experience writing as something outside their control. It either flows or it doesn't. When it doesn't, the blank page feels adversarial, and the instinct is to back away or force through.
But there's navigable terrain inside that experience, and once you can recognize these states, you can work with them.
It helps to have someone support you in the process who's been through it enough times so you stop second-guessing and start trusting what you feel.
We meet every two weeks for twelve weeks. Between sessions, you write three to five times a week (with pen and paper or whatever works for you) for fifteen minutes.
On calls, we talk about what happened when you practiced. It's completely optional for you to share what you wrote. My job is to reflect back what I'm hearing so you can see your own process clearly and to call out what's happening so you learn to navigate the terrain on your own.
Everything is
private and confidential.
My job is to help you see your own process
clearly and name what's working so you can do more of it.
"Stephen masterfully guided the creative process with just enough structure, just enough push to help reconnect my inner voice with its outer expression."
Justine R.
We've all had good intentions to launch some new habit, whether it's trying meditation and quitting or starting a journal and getting bored. This is the practice that sticks.
Being able to name things gives you agency over your own process and your inner landscape.
Roughly 20,000 words.
That's what fifteen minutes a day for twelve weeks adds up to. Within it will be passages that surprise you and sentences that came from a clear place you didn't know you had access to.
In the last three or four sessions, harvesting becomes the work. We go through what you've written together, find what's alive, and sort it into gold, compost, and cuts. You leave with pages that are the beginnings of something.
"I cannot even begin to express how deeply moved I was. My novel took a different shape and thanks to a creative writing exercise that Stephen gave us, I wrote a new prologue that helped me understand my character so much better. My novel was literally transformed in a day. I expected the block I had been feeling to go away, but I didn't expect the floodgates of creativity to open as they did."
Jennifer S
You want to get in touch with your authentic voice.
You feel scattered or overstimulated.
You're drawn to analog and physical things but haven't found your practice yet.
You're a writer whose work has gone flat and you want to find what's alive in it again.
You're looking for journaling prompts or creative writing exercises. This isn't about telling anyone what to write. It's about what happens to your attention when you do.
You want someone to edit your manuscript. I do that work as a separate offering.
You need crisis support or therapeutic intervention. This practice complements therapy but isn't a substitute for it.
Twelve weeks of biweekly sessions. Three to five writing sessions a week between calls, fifteen minutes each. Written reflections after every call. Email for support when you need it.
One-on-one work with an experienced writing coach typically runs $150–250 an hour. This is six sessions, written feedback throughout, and twelve weeks of ongoing support.
$1,200
Installments available if that's easier. We'll figure it out.
If after the first session it's not a fit, you pay for that session only.
Book a free 30-minute call"He was able to draw out of me what I wanted from the story without setting any terms for me. He would listen, ask questions and reiterate until it became clear."
Gina C.
"The writing exercises brought ideas and memories out of me that had been hidden or buried for years. Three pages later I found myself forgiving myself for something I'd done in the past."
Rachel M.
Start with the Weekend Writing Marathon — a self-paced guided weekend that takes you through the full practice. It's $29, and the best way to feel whether this is for you before committing to anything larger.
Explore the practiceWe'll talk about what you're looking for and whether this is the right fit. I'll write back within 24 hours.
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TMMW
To Map, Must Walk.
The map is the finished work. It emerges after you've walked the territory. To make the map, you have to walk first.