Why Writing Your Book Will Change You As Much As It Will Change the World

Invite in the fire of purification with Bealtaine, the Celtic festival of fire, so you can summon the persistence to turn your writing into art

It takes the tenacity of spring  and the fire of summer to write a book.

In my work as The Story Catalyst book coach, I often say your book will change you as much as it may change the world. 

I help people move from magical idea to a sturdy living, breathing outline; draft their chapters and craft stellar book proposals that get them book deals. But what I really do is help writers become authors.

During the living and writing of my memoir, Boundless (coming September 2024 from Atmosphere Press), I became an expert on becoming. 

Which is delightful to me now but would have been perplexing to hear then. What I thought I had become an expert on seven years ago was being stuck.

divenire

/di-ve-ni-re/

Italian

To become

Black oak bog at the entrance to the processional in th…