You Should Write a Book: Let’s Find Your Story

I help strong people write brave stories.

I work with people in recovery who feel called to share their journey. The only problem is they lack confidence in their ability to write or they don’t know where to get started . Whether your interest is fiction or nonfiction, my Addicts to Authors “You Should Write a Book: Let’s Find Your Story” program will help you comb through your experiences, memories and ideas to uncover what you should write and get you started on your book or novel.

You’ll be able to turn your recovery journey into a blessing and create joy from your hardships.

Your recovery story is like a jigsaw puzzle still in the box. In order for its truth to become a blessing for others, you must dump it out, sort the pieces and put them together in a meaningful way.

Imagine what it will feel like to receive an email from someone that says:

“Your book changed my life because it gave me the courage to try sobriety.”

or

“Your novel helped me feel less alone in my recovery. Your recovery story is MY story, too. Thanks for writing it.”

 

The You Should Write a Book: Let’s Find Your Story program will allow you to:

  • Use writing to take ownership of your recovery story through fiction or nonfiction

  • Turn your experiences into a blessing for others

  • Create connection and change lives within the recovery community

  • Unearth your creativity while re-energizing your sobriety

  • Create joy from your hardships

You climbed out of the hole of alcoholism or another addiction and you are living life sober and free. Your sobriety is a hard-earned gift, but you understand that your past hardships are part of your recovery journey. Now you want to own your story and share it to benefit others. You’re stuck because you feel a tug to write in a way that will help the recovery community, but you’re not sure what or how to write.

That’s the exact reason I created my You Should Write a Book: Let’s Find Your Story program – to take you from confusion about how to create more meaning from your past suffering to telling your truth through fiction or nonfiction in a way that creates community and connection with others in recovery and those considering it.

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I am an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach with certifications in both fiction and nonfiction.

The lengthy training and certification process I went through was designed and delivered by Author Accelerator Founder Jennie Nash who has written and published eight books and whose book-coaching clients have landed top New York agents and big publishing deals. I continue to train with Jennie and other industry professionals so that I can help you uncover your story and develop your book or novel idea into a finished manuscript that makes you proud.

Additionally, I developed a unique journaling method called Writing the W.A.V.E.S.© (Writing the Way to Acceptance, Validation and Empowerment through our Stories) that will help you establish a consistent writing practice and mine your stories for the “good stuff” to make meaning from your life’s experiences.

What’s Included in the You Should Write a Book: Let’s Find Your Story program:

  • Two live, online classes

I deliver these classes live so you can ask questions and engage with others in recovery who also want to write. (*Recordings available for those who need to watch later). It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • Instruction and teaching on my unique journaling technique

This journaling techniques helps you capture and mine your experiences and then uncover themes in your writing so that you can take ownership of your story in a new and powerful way.

  • Guidance on how to use your experience, strength and hope in your writing.

This will help you re-energize your sobriety, turn past pain into a blessing for others and impact lives in the recovery community.

  • Writing Workshop

You also get a mini writing workshop based on the Blueprint for a Book© method designed by Author Accelerator Founder Jennie Nash so that you can turn your stories into the foundation for a book or novel.

  • Coaching

I serve as your writing coach, showing you on how to develop your stories and themes into longer works of fiction or nonfiction so that you can answer the urge to make meaning, understand yourself and be understood.

The next class meets June 6 and June 13, 2023

This session is complete and enrollment is currently closed. Fill out the form below to be added to my mailing list and be notified when enrollment opens again.

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  • Week One

    I will teach you the Writing the W.A.V.E.S.© method so that you can uncover your unique experiences and capture them on the page – even ones you thought you forgot.

  • Week Two

    I will guide you through exercises that will help you uncover themes and patterns in your stories so that your truths can come forward in a way that will bless others in the sober community and create connection – a “me too” moment— inside a fiction or nonfiction book. Then I will deliver the mini writing workshop in which I coach you on how you can turn the beginning of your fiction or nonfiction idea into a longer work that will harness the power of story to create joy from hardships, quiet fear, make peace with time, euthanize isolation and create a community of common experience.

 

As a sister in sobriety, I am committed to helping you uncover and write your story. That means that you won’t have to figure this out on your own and you won’t have to work with a writing coach who doesn’t relate to our past struggles and who doesn’t know our recovery language.

 I’ve been a writer my entire life and I know the benefits of putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. I also know how to recognize a story or experience that should be shared. When you work with me, I’ll help you find those story gems inside your experiences, too.

Enroll now for $149. (Price increases to $179 on May 12).

Enrollment is currently closed. Fill out the form below to be added to my mailing list and be notified when enrollment opens again. 

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Here’s what previous clients have to say about working with me.

  • recovering alcoholic writing a book

    Debbie B. Wildwood, Missouri

    “I enjoyed Michelle's class, Writing the W.A.V.E.S., very much. I'm an avid reader, but have no desire to write anything for public consumption. But, I'm on a quest to improve my creativity and spirituality, and Journaling has been interesting to me. I've journaled sporadically over the years, usually when I'm angry or sad. Never enough to get any lasting benefits. Michelle's class introduced me to ways I can keep Journaling interesting, enlightening, and I felt driven to do more! I would recommend this class to anyone who is interested in taking their creative journey to next level. Oh, the insights I've seen!!”

  • Sandy Piper, MSC, LPC

    “The W.A.V.E.S. method is a solid way for anyone to approach journaling. It sparks ideas by tapping into memories and experiences using a creative and full-bodied approach. Would recommend this class for anyone!”

  • Writing in Recovery

    Denise Carter, Missouri

    "What it was like, what happened, what it's like now. That's how I tell my story and that's a good start to a book. I hope my A.A. story helps someone else, and it's helping me to write it with Michelle. I highly recommend her.