Successful Fiction Writers Are Storytellers.
We journey into the imagination to meet strange, exciting, scary, beautiful, heroic and ugly characters. Our best stories flow from our unexpected encounters in our personal Wonderland when we, like Alice, follow the White Rabbit and fall willy-nilly into unexpected landscapes that delight, confound, and terrify us into writing the stories we are meant, finally, to write. Are you looking for the White Rabbit? Do you need a guide in your personal Wonderland? |
After years of writing successful fiction and coaching hundreds of writers, I know how to guide you in and out of Wonderland, teach you how to make sense of the characters, plots, and landscapes swirling around in your imagination and get them down on paper. I do this in all the programs that I offer: Private Coaching, Mentoring Programs, Weekly Writing Workshops, and my annual Writing and Creative Retreat for Women in Bar Harbor, Maine.
I Understand The Creative Personality One of my desires as your writing coach is to teach you how to smash the distorting mirror that leaves you afraid to take the risks that writing demands. I understand the quirkiness, sensitivities, challenges, and fears inherent in the creative person — they're mine, too. It took me years to appreciate myself as a creative person but finally, I do. It wasn't always easy. I know how to do this for you, too. |
My own story begins when I was little. I didn't speak until I was three-years-old and, even then, I stuttered badly. My mother told me that she thought I was retarded. What she didn't understand was my imagination was my greatest companion. I was happy making up stories and acting them out for my own enjoyment. (I actually remember doing this!)
As soon as I learned to write, I put my stories, mostly about a bunny rabbit family, down on paper. To Mom, however, I was flighty, a daydreamer, introverted, too emotional and too sensitive. And horrors, when she read to me, unlike my sister, I couldn't sit still. I had to get up and dance. |
If you're interested in working with me, please call or email me at 914.962.4432. (I'm in eastern time.) Email me at emily@emilyhanlon.com. "Emily's peculiar genius is helping fiction writers to find, feed, wrestle and live with their demons or muses. Where do my stories and characters come from, how do they take shape in me, how can I allow and at the same times manage, their release onto the unfriendly, staring page?" ~ Kurt Blankmeyer |