Free Resources for Writers
Professional Services for Writers
KN Literary Arts
Everything you need to self-publish your book, from writing it to making it real to publicizing and selling it: Coaching, editing, copyediting, proofreading, design inside and out, marketing, online sales strategies.
We recommend KN Literary highly!
Original Impulse: Create Your Writer’s Life
Cynthia Morris is a writing coach and developmental editor, and author of The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book.
Turn the Page Book Coaching
Megan Close Zavala is a developmental editor and coach with a terrific depth of experience as agent and editor. She focuses on memoir and self-help.
Heather Demetrios: writing coach
Heather describes herself as “an author. A writing coach with a focus on mental health and process for writers. A mindfulness-for-writers evangelist and a pushover for passionate people.”
Karen Geiger: writing coach
Karen describes herself as a “JOY concierge. Language nerd. Midlife believer. Burnout buster. Pickleball obsessed. Certified Author accelerator book coach, journaling coach and licensed speech-language pathologist.”
Books on Writing and Creativity
On Writing
John Truby, The Anatomy of Story
Robert McKee, Story
Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir
John Frederick Nims, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Jeanette Winterson, One Aladdin, Two Lamps
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
Ross Gay, The Book of Delights
On Creativity
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
Julia Cameron, It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again
Mihály Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
Scott Barry Kaufman & Carolyn Gregoire, Wired to Create
Stuart Brown, Play
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
Come Write with Us!
Everything we do in the Imaginative Storm is suitable for writers across the spectrum: from those who consider themselves beginners to published writers with many titles to their name.
Join our Weekly Writing Circle on Zoom to write to a random prompt for 10 minutes! We usually have some newcomers, and we will welcome you. It’s on Saturday at noon ET.
Explore our Community Circle site, where we publish the raw material we write in 10 minutes. You’ll get an idea of what’s possible, and how we support one another with appreciation rather than competition or criticism.
Get our Daily Prompt delivered straight to your inbox every morning.
Check out our vast archive of image prompts on YouTube. We guide you step by step in working with the prompt, share what we did in our Weekly Writing Circle Saturday session, and time you for 10 minutes while you write.
Let us guide you step by step through the 10 sessions of the Imaginative Storm method, in our self-paced online course Write What You Don’t Know: Imaginative Storm Writer Training.
Sign up for one of our live workshops, on Zoom orin-person retreats, and explore the memoir, or fictional story, you might write.
Order our book Write What You Don’t Know.