Become the Writer You Want to Be
Experience the Imaginative Storm
A proven method to unleash your creative flow
Writing Prompt of the Week on Zoom
Write boldly. Share freely. Grow creatively.
Join our free Prompt of the Week sessions on Zoom. No pressure, no prep, just real-time prompts, creative connections, and momentum to keep you writing.
Saturdays 12 pm Eastern
Thursdays 6 pm Eastern
The Imaginative Storm Method
Feeling stuck, stifled, or unsure how to begin your writing?
You’re not alone—and it’s not your fault.
Most writing advice tells you to “write what you know.” But that’s exactly what stifles your imagination.
Imaginative Storm show you a different path—one that frees your creativity, silences your inner critic, and helps your writing flow with clarity, confidence, and emotional power.
We teach you to write what you don’t know—so you surprise yourself and rediscover your voice every time you sit down to write.
When you write what you don’t know, you will:
Break through writer’s block
Write with emotional truth and power
Cultivate your unique writing voice
Stop overthinking and start flowing
Turn confusion into creative clarity
Feel alive, awake, and fully connected to your words
The Imaginative Storm isn’t just a writing method—it’s a creative rebellion. If you’re ready to trade predictability for possibility, you’ve found your people.
The Creators of Imaginative Storm
Allegra Huston & James Navé
We come from very different writing worlds—literary and performance, publishing and poetry—but that’s exactly what makes this work so powerful for you.
Together, we’ve developed a method that speaks to every kind of writer—structured or freeform, hesitant or bold. Whether you're writing your first sentence or your fifth book, we help your rational mind dance with your imagination—and create work that’s unmistakably your own.
What makes our collaboration so unique and powerful?
Our work has been featured in
What the pros say:
-
![Kate Christensen]()
“Brilliant! Your exercises are both common-sensical and revolutionary.”
Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-wining novelist and visiting professor, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
-
![]()
“I felt encouraged to try new things. It brought joy back to my writing process.”
Jahman Hill, poet, author of the award-winning one-man show Black Enough, and professor, University of Alabama
-
![]()
“Extraordinary in the way it turned my mind inside-out.”
Lan Samantha Chang, novelist and director, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
-
![]()
“It unlocked my writing abilities. I recommend it to my students.”
Judy Walgren, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, professor of journalism, Foothill College, San Francisco
-
![]()
“Working with these clever prompts, you end up feeling creatively and spiritually well-nourished.”
Nicole Perlman, screenwriter, Guardians of the Galaxy
What our writers say:
-
"After Imaginative Storm, writer's block is a myth."
Abdullah Erakat, screenwriter and journalist
-
"Every session has been deeper and more fulfillling. It's infusing my entire life with creativity."
Chris Minnich, businessman
-
"It's like meeting a part of myself I didn't know existed. What a gift!"
Wendy Shaw, artist
-
"You helped me overcome my critic. I went from being a fearful writer to a joyful one."
Corinne Crone, intimacy coach
-
"Write What You Don't Know is like a bible for me now."
Dan Stenabaugh, writer
-
"It's life-changing. Even if I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing."
Deborah Williams, publicist and educator
How the Imaginative Storm Method Works
You don’t need to write perfectly. You just need a way in.
That’s what the Imaginative Storm method gives you—a simple, powerful writing practice that unleashes your imagination, breaks through writer’s block, and delivers your voice onto the page.
Here’s how it works:
You write by hand, using a 10-minute timer to focus your mind.
You follow a creative writing prompt—questions, images, word lists, sounds.
You don’t try to “write well.” You write freely and without judgment.
You read your words aloud to hear your natural rhythm and tone.
Each time you do this, your creative flow strengthens. Your ideas multiply. Your writing becomes more vivid, more confident, more you.
Gems from our writers, and the prompts that inspired them
