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Book Writing SIG – July 2023
July 12, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
$10.00 – $32.50Title: The Courage to Write What’s True
Host: Kim O’Hara, Book Coach
Guest Speaker: Abigail Morgan Prout, Author & Coach
CCEs: 1.5 Resource Development
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Location: Virtual meeting via Zoom.us / Your link to join the conference will be sent after you register. Remember to login before registering for the event.
Description
We go a bit deeper in this month’s SIG, discussing the idea of permission in writing to shift the narrative to a different model or genre. We tend to box ourselves in creatively because we think we should project a message, story or our experiences in a certain way as writers that conforms to our profession. In this act, creativity can be squashed or authentically muted.
Imagine a space and time where you could write about what you care about versus what you think you should be doing. It can take courage to write above the norm, but if your storytelling is not going to move you, there will be little to no effect on others.
All great books start in a reclamation process. Joined by Professional Certified Co-Active Coach and Award-Winning Author Abigail Morgan Prout, the intent of this session is to guide you through a conscious and informative conversation to form a new pattern and rhythm of writing. Without discounting structure or the importance of having outlines, book coaches, editors, we show that you can mold, craft and then shift. Taking ownership of your authorship (a class Kim taught with Abigail as a participant) is one of the keys to discovering your unique path to writing that feels good and true for you.
Abigail will discuss her process of coming to her decision to write a book of poetry, and we will have paired sharing of the process for each participant through informed exercises.
Shifts in your writing perspective to expect include:
- Tools to process and channel your authentic creativity
- Ownership of the voice within craves a new narrative
- Listening and observing what resonates with your audience.
About Abigail Prout
Professional Certified Co-Active Coach Abigail Morgan Prout is a leader and a trainer for other coaches through the Co-Active Training Institute. Initially thinking she needed to write a coaching book, a long pause and connection with the nature around her on Lopez Island (where she calls her home) allowed her poetry to come to the surface. Walk Deep, her first book, won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize, a 2023 Nautilus Book Award, and is currently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Walk Deep was published by Wayfarer Books/ Homebound Publications in October 2022. This book is a love letter to Lopez Island, specifically to a forest path on Lopez Hill that functions as her muse. Abigail is passionate about the role that nature and poetry plays in personal transformation and leadership. Every morning you can find her singing to the island forest with her silky black lab, Bella.
About Kim O’Hara
Book Coach to Best Sellers® Kim O’Hara brings her decades-long knowledge of the art of writing books to coaches, leaders and executive clients who, when writing about their journey, illuminated and inspired readers through their narrative. Called a book sherpa, ride and die, BFF, miracle maker, and guardian angel by her clients, Kim provides clarity to hopeful authors about their purpose in writing a book and a foundational structure to execute their vision to a wider audience. Kim’s clients’ books have appeared on the Wall Street Journal Top Ten Business Books and USA Today top one hundred, as well as top non-fiction and business books in Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Her clients’ books have been distributed by top publishers including Penguin Random House.
Her two-decade career in Hollywood as a movie producer and screenwriter adds that special edge of storytelling and crafting a story that entertains as well as evokes emotion. She is a sought speaker at women’s leadership conferences and is a contributing expert for top business publications on book writing. She hosts a successful podcast, You Should Write A Book About That.™
You can find Kim at kimohara.com as well as kimoharabooks.com. You can also sign up for her newsletter at http://kimohara.substack.com.
