Become the Writer You Want to Be
Discover the Imaginative Storm: a proven method to unleash your creative flow
“After Imaginative Storm, writer’s block is a myth.”
— Abdullah Erakat, screenwriter
Developed by celebrated writers and teachers Allegra Huston & James Navé
Experience our easy, enjoyable writing method ~ for free!
Every Thursday, we offer our Prompt Lab.
Every Saturday, we host Writer Playtime.
Are you ready to amaze yourself? We’re excited to share our writing method with you.
Thursdays 6 pm Eastern
Saturdays 12 pm Eastern
The Creators of Imaginative Storm
Allegra Huston and James Navé
Our work has been featured in
What makes our collaboration so unique and powerful?
Our decades of experience cover the writing spectrum: from classic literature to slam poetry, from bestselllng books to old-time storytelling, from professional publishing to creative exploration.
Together, we’ve developed a method that speaks to every kind of writing:
Novels and short stories
Memoir and creative nonfiction
Poetry
And every kind of writer: bold or unsure, confident or anxious, aiming for publication or writing just for yourself.
We’ll show you how to get your rational mind to dance with your imagination, and generate writing that’s powerful, creatively satisfying — and unmistakably yours.
How does our method work?
We write by hand, using a 10-minute timer which frees you from the need to “write well.”
We offer a writing prompt, which eliminates writer’s block.
We make lists, so that your imagination has toys to play with.
We read our writing aloud, which trains you to appreciate your strengths and develop your writing voice.
Each time you do this, your creative flow strengthens. Your ideas multiply. Your writing becomes more vivid, more confident, more you.
What’s our secret? Write what you don’t know!
Most writing advice tells you to “write what you know.” But that’s exactly what stifles your imagination.
When you write what you don’t know, you don’t pre-think what you’re going to write. You approach your ideas and memories from unexpected angles. Our writing prompts provoke your curiosity and intrigue your imagination.
So, you surprise yourself with what flows onto the page.
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
Replace criticism with curiosity
Surprise yourself every time you sit down to write
What holds you back is not lack of imagination — it’s lack of trust in your imagination.
The Imaginative Storm method builds that trust.
What our writers say:
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"After Imaginative Storm, writer's block is a myth."
Abdullah Erakat, screenwriter and journalist
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"Every session has been deeper and more fulfillling. It's infusing my entire life with creativity."
Chris Minnich, businessman
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"It's like meeting a part of myself I didn't know existed. What a gift!"
Wendy Shaw, artist
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"You helped me overcome my critic. I went from being a fearful writer to a joyful one."
Corinne Crone, intimacy coach
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"Write What You Don't Know is like a bible for me now."
Dan Stenabaugh, writer
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"It's life-changing. Even if I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing."
Deborah Williams, publicist and educator
What the pros say:
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“Brilliant! Your exercises are both common-sensical and revolutionary.”
Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-wining novelist and visiting professor, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
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“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
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“Extraordinary in the way it turned my mind inside-out.”
Lan Samantha Chang, novelist and director, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
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“It unlocked my writing abilities. I recommend it to my students.”
Judy Walgren, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, professor of journalism, Foothill College, San Francisco
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“Working with these clever prompts, you end up feeling creatively and spiritually well-nourished.”
Nicole Perlman, screenwriter, Guardians of the Galaxy
Gems from our writers, and the prompts that inspired them
