Tuesday, March 24, 2026 · 12 p.m. ET · Live on Zoom
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How to Turn Your Ideas and Journals into Nationally Published Essays

A free one-hour webinar with writing coach and author Paulette Perhach

You have a notes app full of ideas. A journal you've been keeping for years. A story you've told at dinner parties that makes people put down their forks.

And somehow none of it has made it onto a published page.

Here's what's actually happening. Writing and finishing are two different skills. Most writers are good at one and terrible at the other. Nobody teaches you how to close the gap.

That's what this hour is for.

What you'll walk away with:

A system for turning scattered material into a piece with a real shape
A way to break your big scary goal into something you can do on a Tuesday
The one thing to cut from your schedule so your writing finally has a real slot in your life
How to drop into deep work instead of sitting at your desk performing the idea of writing
Why sharing rough, unfinished work is part of the process — and how to do it without losing your mind
The mindset shift that gets you writing again when imposter syndrome has its foot on your neck

You're a memoirist, essayist, or creative nonfiction writer with more material than finished pieces. You're tired of watching another year go by without sending anything out. You know you have something to say and you can't figure out why it's still sitting in a folder.

This is for you if:

This is not for you if:

You write fiction. You're looking for a magic trick. You're not willing to actually show up.

Meet Your Coach

Paulette Perhach has been writing professionally for 20 years, with work published in the New York Times and other major outlets. She won two 2024 Solas Travel Writing Awards — gold for funny travel writing and bronze for best travel story of the year — and was selected for Best Women's Travel Writing, an anthology that published 27 essays out of 1,600 submitted.

She's coached hundreds of writers through her FINISH Framework, a system built specifically for the creative person with a real life who keeps running out of momentum.

She knows what it feels like to get the call. She wants that for you.