THE STORY CATALYST
1:1 IDEA TO OUTLINE COACHING
THE ROCKET-BOOSTER WAY TO GET YOUR BOOK STARTED
1:1 Idea to Outline
FOUR SESSIONS + 4,000 WORDS OF CUSTOMIZED REVIEW PER SESSION
Do you have an idea for a book that won’t let you go? Have you been jotting down ideas and writing scenes for years?
Want to get clear on which book to write first?
Do you sometimes think, ‘If I could only find a structure for this, I could finish it?’
A 1:1 Idea to Outline coaching package will provide you with vision and skill to get your writing project off the ground in a one-on-one setting with customized review. The package includes four consultations with me.
(Or, revive a long-cherished project that you want to bring alive again.)
I’ll help you dial in your hook, find a structure that will carry you through the drafting process and capture your unique voice.
WHO I HELP
I help writers of transformative nonfiction, memoir, self-help, fiction, narrative nonfiction (journalistic, researched nonfiction) and more, such as nonfiction on topics like leadership, personal development, psychology and spirituality.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
One week ahead of each one-on-one session with me, you’ll send 4,000 words and your working outline. I’ll send feedback — love notes, prompts, areas for development — and resources customized to your book and your craft.
We’ll meet for 50 minutes, and I’ll record it on zoom for you.
This package is for four sessions, so I’ll review a total of 16,000 words and meet with you four times.
A SPECIAL DISCOUNT THROUGH SEPT. 3
This package normally goes for $995. But for the next THREE people to sign up, I’m offering it for $775 — that’s $220 off, a 25 percent discount.
That’s right! For under $200 per session, you’ll get my eyes on 16,000 of your words, which is the sweet spot for gaining “proof of concept” — the assurance that this is a story that needs to be told and you are the one to tell it.
WHY YOU SHOULDN’T WAIT
My 10+ years of clients will swear by it as vital to giving them momentum and clarity for their projects.
I sharpen your vision. I build your capacity with skills and resources. I hold space for your vision to become your vision, in your voice.
You’ll also tap into my proven outline resources — which provide just enough structure AND let your story breathe.
WHAT THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES
- Review of 4,000 words per session
- Four 50-minute consultations
That’s a total of 16,000 words with coaching notes.
Note the objective of this service is that you develop a living, breathing outline, guided by an expert book coach, which prepares you for drafting chapters for a full manuscript or a book proposal. While it includes coaching notes, it is not a full developmental edit.
The intention is for you keep writing, find your structure, dial in your hook, develop your voice and head off any issues that could hold your book back. The goal is to leave the four-session package with unmistakable momentum.
SUPER-SWEET BONUSES
If you purchase this package, you receive my Story Catalyst starter kit for free, as well as membership in the growing Story Catalyst community on Mighty Networks; access to monthly group calls; discounts on specialized Story Catalyst craft classes.
LET’S DO THIS!
To find out how to get started on your book, or figure out the right package for you, sign up for a free 30-minute call with me here.
This link takes you to where you can pay your deposit and book your first call. Upon booking, I will send you a Project Greenlight email with instructions for how to begin, resources that will guide you, The Story Catalyst Starter Kit and a proposed meeting schedule for our four sessions.
SEE WHAT BOOKS MY AUTHOR CLIENTS HAVE PUBLISHED
WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR FUTURE PUBLISHED SELF HERE
Tell me why you’re ready. Or tell me how you’re getting ready. Write a Letter to Your Future Published Self here. If you give me your email, I’ll send you a note two years from now.
OTHER SERVICES I OFFER
Maybe you’re not ready for this one. Maybe this is making you realize that you need to make sure your manuscript is an absolutely “yes.” Here are some of the other services I offer to help you get there.
- 1:1 book coaching and development
- Idea-to-Outline coaching
- Chapter Draft Support coaching and editing
- Developmental Editing of full manuscripts
- Path to Publishing Package – Find Your “Right Fit” Literary Agent
- Editorial assessments and revision plans
- Contemplative and generative writing retreats in settings such as Ireland, Taos, Scotland and Utah canyonlands
- Story Catalyst writing craft classes
- Story Catalyst community
- Uncommon Hours classes in designing and de-stressifying the writing life with leading-edge time management hacks and practices of mindfulness and creative visualization
- Uncommon Hours community
- Brand Catalyst branding and content creation that helps you engage your audience, raise visibility and build a thriving author platform
- Social media consulting on strategies for garnering media attention and audience engagement and development of coherent, captivating content marketing that builds your audience
- Creativity coaching about living a flourishing writing life
- Abundance coaching
- The Fire: consultations about agent query letters, targeting literary agents; consultations about publishing “companion pieces” in mainstream news outlets and magazines, literary journals to make the case for your book; consultations about publishers and other places to submit your work
- Consulting on leading retreats for writers, creatives, wisdom teachers and body-mind-spirit healers
START WRITING WITH PURPOSE NOW!
Let’s live the life written
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AUTHOR SUCCESSES
“A tale of resilience and grace, Little Sister chronicles, in riveting prose, a surreal childhood and does so without rancor or self-pity.”
~Amazon
PATRICIA CHADWICK
Little Sister
Post Hill Press, 2019
In this memoir, Patricia Chadwick writes about growing up in a Catholic cult, where children were separated from their parents. She gives an interview on CBS to Dana Jacobson. (Patricia came to me through kn literary, and it was an honor to help her finish this book!)
A change at the cellular level. Part travel memoir and part spiritual guide, Cleanse Your Body and Reveal Your Soul is one woman’s transformative quest with Ayurvedic Panchakarma (a fivefold detoxification treatment involving massage, herbal therapy, and other procedures) and the profound shifts that led to some sustainable, substantial life changes. Dissatisfied with a mainstream psychiatric practice, Dr. Pentz heads to India, where she undergoes an ancient, rejuvenating cleanse.
In his memoir, David Sorensen explores his identity as a coda, or a child of Deaf adults. He describes his experiences with the roles often placed on codas at a young age, such as interpreter, confidant, and decision-maker. His story reveals a person seeking acceptance and belonging while straddling the Deaf and hearing worlds, and shows how he found reconciliation within himself and with both worlds.
As a British citizen of Nigerian ancestry, Ade Anifowose had lived an invisible life—until he found a home in Atlanta with his American wife. One day on a Greyhound bus near the border of two countries, at a border patrol checkpoint in Las Cruces, New Mexico, officers stopped his bus. “Are you an American citizen?” they asked. Down the row, he heard, “Sí, sí, sí.”
He could not answer yes. He had been living and working in the United States for over 25 years, but…it was complicated. The moment of truth had come. “You’re going to have to step off the bus,” the officer said.
In one moment, the trajectory of his life changed unalterably. My Invisible Life is a narrative memoir that kicks off with his deportation from the United States of America, after living most of his adult life with his wife and family, friends and a large network of community. When he first moved to Atlanta in 1993, he had been on a search for belonging and found that he could be more African in Atlanta than in England. Now, he had been told that I did not belong.
PUBLICATION NEWS COMING SOON!
Have you ever wanted a way to bend the ear of the Universe – that is, the loving energy behind all creation? Yes, that Universe, the one that renders absolute and perfect manifestation. Know that the Universe hears what is in your heart. It hears exactly what you want for your greatest life.
Can your life be so crazy that it ends up making you functional?
If crazy can be influenced by a life beginning in rodeo and functional can be influenced by a profession as a therapist, then the answer is easy: You decide.
What it is to be “crazy” and what it is to be “functional” are relative to the individual. Sometimes, it takes a lifetime to distinguish between the two. And sometimes, it takes a book filled with a lifetime’s worth of experiences. Even those considered crazy.
OCD? It’s in there. Anxiety? In there. Trauma? Take a number. Substance abuse? All depends on how you define “abuse.”
Yet despite the titillation from the full-frontal crazy, the heart of this story is in resilience. And if you think resilience can only come from positivity, enlightenment, or deep breaths… think again.
We’re suffering.
We suffer individually and collectively. We suffer from an epidemic of worry. An epidemic for which we’re desperately seeking solutions, the perfect medicine for what ails us.
And we’re so connected. Yet, more disconnected than ever. Disconnected from our essential nature. Disconnected from our place in it all.
In our striving, we suffer. And in our striving to find solace for our suffering, we suffer.
All of this, Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D., understands.
In The Do-Nothing Cure: A Physician’s Tales, Teachings and Tools for Finding Your Way Home to Health, Muehsam, an extraordinary physician, teacher and thought leader, presents the antidote to suffering. Drawn from her years of exploring the heart of health, The Do-Nothing Cure presents Muehsam’s path out of a modern world that is frenzied and disconnected and into a realm where suffering does not exist and health resides. Living at the Guest House is how we find our way home to Absolute Health.
Forthcoming in 2021 from New World Library