Writing Coach"She coaches writing and risk-taking." I overheard that statement one day about myself, and realized it was true. As a writing coach, I believe that success for a writer must be first and foremost about the ability to take risks… because risks are what writing is all about. You won't know how your readers will respond unless you write and publish it! I teach that every challenge is an opportunity; we just have to be able to frame it as such, without getting all knotted up in the risk factor. Our lives consist of humps and bumps; that is "the human situation." It is the unexpected that tests us most, and best sellers are made from that decision to dive into life head-first and then write about what happened next(!). Without the ability to let go and risk new endings, new words, new forms of self-expression, we deny ourselves (and our potential readers) the opportunity to say something in a way it has never been said before. I show clients their "unwritten words" by inspiring them to dig deep inside and look in places where they may never have dared to look. In my free ebook on writing, I quote a passage from one of my novels that relates a true experience that happened during the time I was teaching creative writing workshops in a male correctional facility in Belle Glades, Florida. Here is a quote from that book:
These inmates had every reason not to risk self-love and when I made that statement to them, they "got it" because all of them had already taken huge risks in other areas of their lives—that's how they landed in prison. That golden nugget of "true satisfaction" from having risked all for the sake of the reader is what every writing coach aspires to convey to their clients. The Woman with Qualities, by Sarah Daniels (my penname) is available at Amazon.com. More information about my creative writing services
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