It’s not going to write itself.

You know what I’m talking about.

Your book. Your essay. Your poems. That thing, that’s been sitting in your body for so long and you KNOW you need to get it out, but where do you even start, and how do you find the time, and what if you can’t even really articulate what it is yet, and OMG this is so overwhelming let’s put the idea away.

Except it keeps waking you up in the middle of the night. Poking you, while you’re walking the dog or doing the dishes.

Allow me to share some very bad news with you: it will not become less poky with time.

Believe me, I know from my own experience – and, I’ve edited or produced 13 books for other people. In most cases, the people had waited an average of 7 YEARS before they really got going.

The commonality among each and every one of them? That project hunted them down. Eventually, it got too loud, and they realized that if they didn’t at least start working on it, they could very easily see themselves never doing it. And that was unacceptable to them.

Perhaps you’re familiar?

So let’s make a start.

Consider this your official invitation to join me in bringing your work into the world, creating possibilities you can’t even imagine right now.

And lest that sound a tad dramatic … I know from the past 25-ish years as a published writer, and 17-ish years helping other people write, that possibility-creating ideas can't have a tangible impact until they're put into a material form — aka words — where they  can actually DO something.

My dream is that we get to the end of our time together and there's several new stones thrown into the pond of the world, making ripples we can't imagine now.