Tending the Story
One-to-one work with writing, storytelling & creative practice
Sometimes you need someone to sit beside the work with you—to read what you have written, hear what you are reaching for, and help you find a way further in.
We can begin with a piece of writing, a story you want to tell, or the desire to make something without yet knowing its shape. Together, we follow what has life in it and work with what needs attention: the words, the form, the questions, the places where you lose your way or surprise yourself.
I bring a writer’s attention to language and craft, a storyteller’s ear, and years of working with body, myth, memory, and imagination. You bring what you are making, or what you are ready to begin.
Your writing, your stories, your creative practice
Perhaps you have been carrying a story for years. You have notebooks full of beginnings, poems asking for another pair of eyes, or a manuscript whose shape you cannot yet see. Perhaps you want to write, but keep circling the page.
We begin with what is there. We read, listen, question, and work the material. A memory may need more room. A poem may need fewer words. A beautiful passage may belong somewhere else. We discover what needs developing, what can be composted, and what still has life.
Fairy tale, body, dream, and the living world can offer ways into the writing when thinking alone takes us in circles. We follow what opens, then return to the page—to the particular words, images, rhythms, and choices through which the work becomes your own.
We also tend the practice itself: making time, beginning again, staying with a difficult piece, and learning when to let something rest.
Working together
You bring the work and the questions you are carrying. We might spend a session reading a few pages closely, finding the bones of a larger piece, or writing into a place you have been skirting. We listen for what has heat, where the language comes alive, and what invites you further.
Through StoryBody®, we track the deeper themes moving through your writing and your life: recurring images, memories, sensations, ancestral threads, the stories you have inherited and the stories you live inside. Body and mythos enter into relationship. A memory placed beside a fairy tale may reveal something you could not see before. We follow these threads through inspired writing, attending to what they stir and where they lead.
Embodied (w)rites of passage give this deeper process a framework. We enter the material, stay with what is churning, and work with what we find. We turn it over, question it, write into it and around it. We sort seeds, preserve what still has life, and give what we are discovering creative form.
There is room for writing that remains raw and private, and for work that asks to become poetry, memoir, or another form. We begin to discover the difference between writing something out and making something from it. Close reading and attention to language, rhythm, image, and structure help us shape what we want to carry forward.
Ways to work together
We can meet weekly, every other week, or monthly, depending on your project and the rhythm of your life.
Wild Seed · Three sessions
A place to begin, return to your writing, or bring attention to a particular piece. We follow your questions, explore possibilities, and find a direction you can carry forward.
Wild Bud · Six sessions
Time to deepen the work. We track the threads emerging in your writing, develop your material, and attend to voice and craft as the project takes shape.
Wild Bloom · Twelve sessions
An ongoing relationship with your writing and creative process. Room to enter more deeply, stay with the tangles, and return to the work through writing, reflection, shaping, and revision.
Begin a conversation
Tell me a little about what you are writing—or longing to write—and where you would welcome support. We can consider together which rhythm and commitment would serve your work.
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The Wild Seed
It all begins with story. A seed. A seed myth. We crack open your story. We braid the mythic into your personal life story. You write your way more deeply in.
For someone who jump start on a creative writing project, or to amplify voice.
Bring your creative seed —we’ll turn make it sprout!
The Seed Package — 3 sessions (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly) for creative ignition and discovery -
The Wild Bud
Let’s go deeper.
You have a desire to deepen your writing craft, to amplify your voice, and/or to work on a specific project.
Life Story Writing coaching will assist you in shaping your project into fruition, clarify your voice into greater authenticity and/or support you in your writing/creative process by keeping you steady, disciplined, on track to your writing goals.
The Wild Bud — 6 sessions (weekly, biweekly or monthly) For braiding the mythic with the personal and/or deeper support crafting, shaping, editing, wild voice activation and more) -
The Wild Bloom
You have a desire to deepen your craft over a longer period of time —bring your project, bring your dreams, your vision for your creative body of work and we will slowly tend your creative seeds to blooming manifestation. Perfect for seasoned writers or individuals wanting to deepen their writing container in a transformative process.
The Wild Bloom —12 sessions (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly) for deeper support on all levels of taking a project from start to finish; sparking inspiration and creative activation; activating voice, and more)