Brave Purpose Author Method - Write your book in six months.
Talk with Michele. Together, you’ll turn your conversation into a manuscript.
The heart of it - You speak your book into existence.
Together with Michele, you’ll engage in a series of recorded interviews that become your book over the course of six months.
TSS. Talk Story Sessions
You and Michele will sit down, and you’ll tell her about your book the way you would tell a friend over coffee. She will ask questions, you talk, and she will record the whole conversation. What you said comes back to you as manuscript pages in your own words, ready to read and react to.
UAV. Unique Author Voice
Before you draft a single chapter, Michele will build your Unique Author Voice (UAV): a 46-dimensional read of how you use grammar, logic, and rhetoric, rooted in the classical trivium. Every page you and she write gets measured against that profile. Your book sounds like you on your best day.
Where authors get stuck - If you’re trying to write something like this, here’s where most authors get stuck.
The missing roadmap.
Most writers have no clear path from the idea in their head to a finished manuscript. Every week turns into a decision about what to write, and the decision usually wins. Michele brings the roadmap, so your time goes into the writing.
The borrowed voice.
It is easy to write the way the books on your shelf sound. Your own voice is already there and it is the best thing you have. Michele helps you find it and write the whole book out of it.
In six months, you get:
- A finished manuscript in your own voice.
- A written walkthrough of your publishing options.
FAQ - What writers ask Michele.
- What kind of books do you work on?
- Nonfiction, memoir, spiritual formation, poetry, and curriculum. Michele has written across that range herself and works well with authors writing creative nonfiction rooted in their lived story.
- Do I need to have written anything yet?
- No. Plenty of writers start with nothing on the page. If you can talk about your book, you can start. That is the whole point of a Talk Story Session (TSS).
- How much time will this take?
- A conversation with Michele, plus a block of your own time to read the pages that come back and tell her what is right and what is off. Some weeks are heavier than others.
Not just books.
Most of Michele’s coaching is with authors, but not all of it. One pastor asked her to coach him on hearing God’s voice, and that has become part of her practice. If you’re working on something that isn’t a book, whether it’s a season of life, a calling, or a spiritual practice, reach out. If it fits, Michele will let you know.
Michele works best with authors of nonfiction, especially books rooted in your lived story: memoir, testimony, spiritual formation, and curriculum. Novels and fiction aren’t her specialty. If that’s what you’re writing, she’ll gladly point you toward someone who is. But if your book is true, she’s in her element.
Ready to write your book?
Start with a conversation. Michele will take it from there.