I know that it can be tempting to turn down an opportunity like this. No writer wants a formula. We want to do it on our own. Our creative soul craves originality and authenticity.

And absolutely yes, we do. And I have such regard and respect for that fire. That determination means you’ve got what it takes to succeed.

But the thing with creativity, is it can go undirected. It can take you all over the place. A guide is imply there to help narrow the focus, to help move the needle forward in the right direction.

One of my biggest concerns when I was putting together this course, was how to avoid trampling over the authentic voice. What you don’t know is that I do very intuitive work, and there’s an entire section dedicated to actually connecting with and using that subconscious creative mind for faster, more authentic, more powerful fiction. So I love this dedication to being original.

But, everything I know tells me that humans crave a certain structure in their fiction. When it’s off, we feel it. You know, we’ve all read books that drag, or seem jarring, and what’s usually off is the structure or the connection to the belief shift that we talked about earlier.

And all great stories follow the same backbone. I call it universal story structure. It’s that colourful chart you saw earlier. And my whole goal is to give you a scaffold to jump off from. And when we follow universal story structure, we actually get to be more creative. We can take readers to wild and crazy places, and they’ll go with us, as long as the book doesn’t seem to drag or be jarring.

Let me tell you one thing about Universal Story Structure: it’s UNIVERSAL.

Story on a deep level is human. Human beings have an innate but usually subconscious understanding of story. I use this for stories across genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Contemporary Romance. I’ve also assessed Mystery stories, Thrillers, anything I can get my hands on.

In Write Now, I also share the concept of Reader Candy, which is what is it that draws readers to certain genres, what is it they want to experience.

With good Reader Candy, which I teach in Write now, we can take universal story structure, and build it into whatever genre we want it to be. We can even take elements from multiple genres and make them all work together. We can make our story do whatever we want it to do and still appeal to readers. And I show you exactly how to do this in Write Now.

Maybe investing in your fiction feels expensive. You know, the money’s not there, I’ll wait until I have some success to invest and improve my craft. We all know the picture of the starving artist.

I’ve seen, and taken, many writing courses with far less information and impact, that really didn’t go deep, that didn’t really understand or convey the true purpose of things or the connections that exist.

You know, the knowledge that I’m sharing with you, it didn’t come from a course or a book. It came from—I don’t really know where it came from—it came from looking and assessing these connections. That’s what my brain does, it thinks in connections and linear, convoluted paths.

So what I’m saying is, I think what’s in this mentorship is going to blow your mind. And I’ve seen a lot of courses with a lot less being offered for a lot more.

And I also want you to think of the cost of not having a guide. I spent ten years dabbling in fiction writing before I got serious. Think how many books I could have written in those ten years. We can always make more money, but we can’t make more time. So do you want to spend your time figuring out how to write books on your own, or actually writing the books that are in your soul.