Countless people dream of writing a book one day.

Nearly as many have very good reasons for not getting it done:

• “I don’t have time right now.”
• “I need to grow my audience first.”
• “I’m not sure I’ve earned the right to tell my story.”

What it often boils down to, however, is that they don’t know how to get from “good idea” to “completed manuscript.”

That’s where I come in.

While my career path has been anything but straightforward, working with words has been a consistent part of everything I’ve done in my adult life:

• I earned two degrees with fancy names that boil down to the study of books (some great, some not so much).
• I worked at a boutique publishing company, learning the ropes for every imaginable role.
• I wrote proposals that explained the technicalities of painting to the average homeowner.

For the past four years, I’ve devoted myself to the craft of writing for others—websites, essays, and especially books.

I’ve considered myself a writer since I was a teenager and was lucky enough to publish my first book—a collection of short stories about hockey—when I was in my mid-twenties. As you can imagine, I felt like I was on top of the world.

And then I didn’t write anything “creative” for the next ten years.

It got to the point where I talked about writing as something I’d once done, like that insurance salesman we’ve all met who played quarterback in high school. What changed? Well, I discovered that my problem wasn’t with writing. It was with my expectations about the writing process and with my lack of structure around how I wrote.

Once I realized that I could still write, I devoted myself to the practice of writing—both as a craft and as a mindset. This study has allowed me to develop robust programs that equip my clients to stop finding good reasons to write and instead start writing. And not just start but, more importantly, get their books across the finish line.