The World Needs Your Words — Inspiration To Write and Share Consistently
Here’s what I know about DIY-ing your copy, content, and book-writing.
A great writing coach will help you do the writing, not do it for you (a ghostwriter does it for you).
If you're struggling to start or finish your writing projects, you may need to go on an information and course diet. All that reading could be keeping you stuck.
It’s probably a lot simpler and easier than you think.
So what do you do when you’re writing along, and the thought, "I'm not a good writer," pops into your head?
You're plugging along, and then it hits you.
Ugh.
Maybe I should just stop.
Perhaps I need to learn more.
A good coach will challenge you to do your writing and share it — again and again. She’ll never tell you to stop trying and read another book or take another class.
Most of all — I’m willing to bet your writing is better than you think it is.
But how would you know if you've never shared your writing with anyone?
Whether you’re sharing your work in a private forum or with a writing coach while screen sharing, it can initially feel vulnerable.
If you’ve never shared your writing with anyone, your reptilian brain might try to convince you that you’re going to die. First, know that you’re not.1 This is your primitive brain doing its job to keep you safe. Our nervous system senses a threat, and then our fight, flight, or fawn response kicks in.
The next time this happens, notice what’s happening in your body. Maybe your heart races, your palms sweat, your left eyebrow twitches, and you have an uncontrollable urge to run and hide.
When you pause and notice what’s happening inside, you’ll bring awareness to the physical response and be able to take appropriate action.
Get curious, ask yourself what you’re really afraid of, and then listen. That’s all you need to do.
Useful feedback on your writing is about keeping you moving, not criticizing.
A big-hearted coach may pick up on a stray typo or share a best practice and give you the option to tweak it.
They’re also not going to throw anything at you if you decline their suggestions. They’re always just that — suggestions.
Most importantly, no one has ever died from sharing their writing with a writing coach (that I’m aware of anyway).
Many business owners are unlearning writing habits from academia and corporate when they start writing online.
And if you came from either of these two worlds, know that online writing is much, much easier. You can throw away all the rules and have way more fun.
I can tell you after reviewing the writing of thousands of business owners across all experience levels and mastery of the English language, I've never seen a string of words that were completely hopeless.
Usually, the writing — whether we're looking at website copy, a blog, a newsletter, a sales email, a social post, or a book chapter only needs a few tweaks.
Maybe we need to:
Add some words and flesh out a story
Clarify the thinking
Sprinkle in some personality (most new business owners edit this out)
Rearrange some things
Boost readability by making it skimmable
Remove jargon
Simple stuff. And if you've never had a writing coach look at your work before, it might be hard to see your blind spots.
We don’t need your perfect prose — no such thing.
We need your words.
We need you to write from the heart.
We need you to create the impact you're here to make.
To get some input on your writing, you might try:
Asking a friend, biz friend, spouse, or partner. But they’re not your ideal client, so they give you all kinds of well-meaning but bad advice.
Posting in a free Facebook group only to end up with 300 DMs of hungry freelance writers trying to sell you their services.
Obsessing over every word for hours only to overthink and never publish.
Hire someone on Fiverr who doesn’t know you, your audience, or your intentions.
I created my online writing community to help you avoid the frustration of all these things.
Most writing communities are built in 1 of 3 ways:
For fiction authors, not for business owners and business writing
For people to give each other critiques with no expert guidance (OMG, this sounds terrible, and I’ve seen the meanest and deflating feedback in some of these spaces)
Only an expert gives advice without any feedback from the other smart people in the community
The Intuitive Writing School Community is a new and different solution to this.
A blend of business owners with a variety of backgrounds who give each other meaningful feedback based on their experience and seek feedback and structure from a facilitator and coach (that’d be me with 20 years of writing experience).
You need accountability to finish hard-to-write pieces.
You need support to guide your positioning or tone.
You need a safe space to get writing done.
You need to stop self-editing and start writing.
You need to write, edit, post, learn, iterate — and repeat.
You can write AND share your work online.
It doesn’t take as much time as you think to improve your writing skills, either. You’re probably wasting more time obsessing over the writing or procrastinating on writing than actually writing.
Writing your own website copy also isn’t as complicated as you think. Even if you’re not a writer, weren’t trained as a writer, or prefer spreadsheets, a microphone, or a big stage.
You need expert guidance and coaching to help you tune into the words that are already within you, help you get them out, and organize them on the page.
You need to be around other entrepreneurs doing similar things.
You learn from experts, but your peers will help you integrate the lessons into your daily work.
You’ll learn so much more from the questions of others — about things you didn’t know even to ask.
You’ll get ideas and inspiration from other creatives in different industries that you never imagined.
You’ll get energy from other business owners and a coach who holds the sacred space for you to write.
Imagine publishing your website copy, sales page, email nurture sequence, webinar copy (and everything in between) in record time because you put your head down, wrote the thing, and had expert copywriting eyes review it with you live.
You can finally show up as the badass business owner you know you can be.
With words that feel good and sound like they do in your head.
Words you’re proud of and can’t wait to show off because your very own writing coach has vetted your words.
The world needs you and your words.
Here’s to you: getting your words out onto the page and confidently sharing them with the world.
🎉 What happens inside The Intuitive Writing School Community
✍️ Co-writing - 2-hour sessions, roughly 2x a week, for quiet writing time and accountability
🌕 Full moon focus co-writing - 3-4 hours around a full moon for that deep focus and finding your writing flow.
💻 Monthly workshops - Explore a topic in depth, talk through your specific writing questions, and get advice to make your writing more impactful.
📅 Quarterly Planning parties - 90-minute sessions to plan your writing for the coming quarter. Staying consistent with your blog writing, social media posting, and even new offers is easier when you have a plan.
🏁 Monthly Writing Marathons How they work:
We'll warm up our writing muscles for 5 minutes of morning pages
Then, we WRITE! Unlike the quiet co-writing sessions, these are for live feedback and discussion.
When you want some feedback on your writing or to talk something out, just unmute and chat. If I'm working with someone live, drop a note in the chat letting me know you're ready to go next and we'll do as much live feedback as we can in 3 hours.
☕️ Cacao & Connect: A casual time to connect, chat about trends and recent challenges, and get to know other members in a relaxed setting. There might be a prompt or two to kick us off related to the month's theme.
