Your story won’t write itself.
If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
You are welcome here.
In Good Company exists to help you honor your inner voice and meet it on the page.
This four week writing mentorship, originally designed for a small virtual group, is now available (for a very limited time) as a self-directed course. As soon as you join, you will receive an email with a link and passwords to all four video lessons.
Feel free to schedule out one video per week or dig in and drink from the firehose all at once. Whatever you do, show up for yourself and be amazed at what comes of it. This course, originally $300, is $100 for a limited time.
Choose your own adventure!
Week One:
Starting the ride.
Dealing with scar tissue.
I once heard someone say that not being able to write is a learned disability. We come into this world craving and understanding the ways of story and then, along the way, someone or something assaults our vernacular and curiosity and delight are replaced with fear and shame.
In this first lesson, we get right to work, laying groundwork, collecting the necessary tools, and plotting the path forward.
Week Two:
When the idea of writing feels “scary, scary scary!”
When I was a kid, “No Fear” shirts were a big hit. The pick up trucks in backwoods hick towns had a bumper sticker that read, “Ain’t Scared.” Humans have been trying to overcome fear since the dawn of time, to no avail. Creativity is vulnerable. Writing, in my opinion, is one of the most vulnerable art forms. I have yet to succeed at killing my fear or ridding myself of it. In this lesson, I propose a different, gentler and more welcoming way to deal with our fears as writers: to begin a dialogue with fear and listen when it speaks.
Week Three:
Let the images be your guide.
There comes a point in every writer’s life where you realize that your history, your experiences, and your story are your greatest inheritance. They belong to you and only you, and you get to decide how you spend them. Week three digs into the images of what we remember and why, and how we honor our memories on the page.
Week Four:
Self care for the writer and what to do with all those gatekeepers.
This final lesson is to help you get your hands dirty and empower you to evict all of your writing gatekeepers once and for all. Then you can look around and decide what you want to do with all of this new available space that fear and people pleasing once claimed.
Images by Nate Kaiser of The Image is Found
The act of writing is both sacred mystery and banal simplicity. It’s one of the first things we learn; vowels and consonants spit through baby teeth. Stories can put us to sleep or make sense of the world around us. With words, we learn how to dream and how to tell the truth. Stories make us brave enough to face the monsters in our closets. And sometimes, with pen to paper, we can actually set ourselves free. This is the work that most exites me. This is why I’m here.
— Ash Parsons