FREE 5-DAY LIVE EVENT · JUNE 22-26 · 12:00 PM ET · ZOOM
How to Finally Finish and Publish Your Half-Written Story
You’ve carried this story long enough. Spend five days turning your stalled draft into a live pitch for a national editor.
The folder is there on your desktop. Or maybe it’s a notebook buried under a stack of mail, or a voice memo you recorded in the car three months ago.
You have a story that matters, but right now, it’s just a ghost haunting your To-Do list. You’ve told yourself you’re procrastinating. You’ve worried you don’t have the "MFA-level" talent to pull it off.
The truth is simpler: Writing is a vocation and a craft, but most writers are never taught the actual labor of finishing. You don’t need more "inspiration." You need a system that respects how your brain actually works and turns your creative force into a finished manuscript.
That change starts June 15th.
What We’re Doing
How to Finally Finish and Publish Your Half-Written Story is a high-intensity, five-day sprint for memoirists and essayists who are tired of living their writing life in private.
We meet on Zoom for one hour daily. This isn't a passive webinar. You will use the FINISH Framework to dismantle perfectionism and the Writer's Life OS to organize the chaos of your creative process.
By Friday, you won’t just have a "better draft." You will send a real pitch to an editor at a national publication like HuffPost Personal.
This is for you if...
You’re a writer juggling a career, a family, and a thousand other obligations.
You have a "half-finished" graveyard of essays that deserve to be read.
You want a professional level of organization paired with deep creative confidence.
You’re done waiting for a "perfect block of time" that never arrives.
Meet Your Guide
Author of two essays that have gone viral to more than two million readers each.
+ BlogHer Voices of the Year award winner.
+ Anthologized along with work by Roxane Gay, Ashley C. Ford, Mindy Kaling, and Audre Lorde.
+ Nominated for Best of the Net.
+ Included in round-ups from Memoir Monday.
+ Contributor to a 2021 Washington State Book Award-winning anthology.
+ Coach to 100+ writers.
WITH PERSONAL ESSAYS IN:
The Path Forward
On Day 5, once your pitch is in the world, the door opens to The Finishing School for Writers. This is our intensive coaching program designed for writers who want a permanent seat in the creative room.
Whether you join us for the long haul or just for these five days, you will leave with a sent pitch and a system you actually believe in.
Five days. Live on Zoom. 12:00 PM ET. June 15–19. Stop being a person who wants to write. Be a writer who finishes.