It’s Time To
( finally) Write Your Book

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Tell me if this sounds familiar:

You’ve been carrying your book idea around for awhile. Years, if you’re being honest.

You’ve accumulated a library of books about writing books, most of which have a bookmark sticking out of them at around the one-third mark.

You’ve bought a handful of beautiful notebooks and filled their first dozen pages with brainstorming and sketched-out plans that started out exciting and ended up overwhelming. 

You’ve opened a blank document on your computer, typed out a few tentative sentences, deleted them, tried again, deleted them again. You’ve rinsed and repeated. And repeated. And repeated.

Then you set the books and the notebooks aside. You closed the blank document, opened a browser window, and typed “how to write a book” into the search bar. You spent hours in the rabbit warren of advice, sifting through the zillion-and-one ads promising a finished book in 30 days or less.

Despite all of this, you’re still lost — and now you’re also intimidated. (What the ever-loving-fudgsicle does “objective correlative” mean?*)

So you…

…closed the blank document. 

…shelved the notebooks. 

…closed the internet browser. 

You promised yourself you’d return to it later.

When the kids are older. When the car is paid off. When you’ve had a chance to read all those craft books.

But later is now. And your life is no less jam-packed than before.

Still, you haven’t let your book idea go. You’ll be damned if you let that happen.

I get it.

And I’m here to tell you that you can write this book. That it does matter. And that you are the right person to write it.

*I’ve got the definition right here! An objective correlative is a fancy writing term that means "the literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it." This can look like using, say, rain in a scene to symbolize a character's sadness. It could also mean using an external thing a character thinks they want (a new house!) to represent what they really want (a place to belong!). See? Stick around and you'll learn all sorts of fun things!

Welcome!

I’m so glad you’re here!

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I’m Cindy, an Author Accelerator-certified book coach and recovering lawyer with a delightfully messy resume and a life-long love of swear words. (Pearl-clutchers beware!) 

Along with swearing, I also have a life-long history of learning my lessons the hard way, and writing was no exception.

I took my affinity for rigor (see “recovering lawyer”) and applied it to my pursuit of becoming a writer. I scoured every popular formula laid out in craft books and joined intense word-count challenges. I went on writing retreats and enrolled in writers’ groups and took writing workshops. I researched famous writers’ processes and read my way through the syllabi of more than one MFA program.

I was sure that more knowledge was the answer. It wasn’t.

What I ended up with was a patchwork: disparate bits of useful knowledge buried under piles of ego-driven "feedback," empty cheerleading that left me unsure what was missing, sentence-level advice that lacked connection to the story as a whole, and a general sense of confusion about how to do any of it "right."

I knew there had to be a better way. And there was.

It was working with a book coach.

Someone who could hold my whole vision for the book and make sure each piece was doing the right work to reach that vision. Someone who could encourage me and keep me accountable. A trusted creative partner to help me get the (right) words on the page so that I could stop spinning and get my book written before I wasted any more time trying to figure it all out by myself. Someone to celebrate with me each time I reached a milestone.

 And reach them I did. I completed my draft. I started revising. 

But the best part was that I remembered that writing is fun. Really fun. Like any long-term project, there were some tough moments. Sure. But I looked forward to writing again. I felt excited to get to work, to see what came to life on the page.

I loved making progress. I loved being coached. 

And that led to a new thought: What if I could provide this kind of fun, accountable space for other writers?

So I decided to become a book coach myself. 

I spent two years doing practicum work with more than a dozen writers as I completed my certification, distilling all the craft knowledge I accumulated over more than a decade into a practical, meaningful process for writers who are stuck but ready to make it happen. 

Now, I work with fiction and non-fiction writers to help them refine their book’s structure, get the right words on the page, and get their book out into the world and into the hands of readers.

In other words, I learned the hard way so other writers don’t have to. So you don’t have to. 

Don’t waste any more time trying to figure it all out by yourself. 

Let’s get your book written. Together.