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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 down willy-nilly into landscapes that delight, confound, and terrify us. Yikes! Does that thought terrify you? Perhaps it delights you, but you have no way of finding your White Rabbit or the Rabbit Hole! |
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What You Need A Certified Wonderland Guide!
That's where I come in! As your writing coach and mentor, I guide you to the Rabbit Hole by joyfully accepting my transformation into the White Rabbit. How did I get this certification? Since the time I was a little girl, I loved to write stories. I believed in my inner world, which was more fun and safer than my outer world. I was a daydreamer. Flighty. Different. I wasn’t an A student or a College Boards superstar. I didn’t test well. I was too quiet, too excitable, too sensitive, too lost inside myself. I was a challenging child for my mother. My father was my savior. A beloved math teacher and a fiction writer, his love of writing made my escapes into imaginary worlds acceptable. I shared my stories with him; he helped me develop then. He told me about the importance of dialogue and developing strong characters. We discussed writing techniques all during my growing up. He believed in his writing and relentless sent out his short stories, only to compile a stack of rejection slips. But he never gave up. Eventually he sold his stories to Esquire Magazine . When his mind was ravaged by Alzheimer's, he talked incessantly about Michael Oliver O'Toole, his hero in a series of Detective novels he wrote. In the end, his mind was gone but he still had his imagination! |
Following in my father’s footsteps, I began sending out my stories, and collected a pile of rejection slips! Finally, Fate looked kindly on me and I began selling my children’s books, which led into middle school and YA novels and then into adult novels that drew me into wildly unexpected landscapes inhabited by characters who gave me the rides of my life!
I discovered that I didn't need to get it right the first, second or third time. I didn’t need to have the story plotted out. What I needed to do was learn the fiction writer's craft, trust in the creative process no matter how labyrinthine is seemed, have faith in myself as a fiction writer which meant picking myself up when I stumbled or crashed and burned as all artists do, and to never give up writing.
I discovered that I didn't need to get it right the first, second or third time. I didn’t need to have the story plotted out. What I needed to do was learn the fiction writer's craft, trust in the creative process no matter how labyrinthine is seemed, have faith in myself as a fiction writer which meant picking myself up when I stumbled or crashed and burned as all artists do, and to never give up writing.
But something was missing. I realized that like my father, I was born to teach and I was hungry to teach others who needed their creativity and passion to write validated. So, one day I took my then stack of six published books to my local newspaper and asked if they would write a story about my desire to start a Writing Workshop. To my utter surprise, they gave me a center page spread! Five women signed up. That was in 1985 and I have never looked back. Since then I have coached and mentored hundreds of writers.
On this journey, I discovered that I instinctively understand the quirkiness, sensitivities, frustrations, fears and uniqueness of the creative personality. I am passionate about showing you how to grow as a fiction writer through a combination of teaching you fiction writing techniques and inspiring you to take the chances that fiction writing demands. I love watching how releasing your passion as a fiction writer, your belief in yourself, allows you to fly!
On this journey, I discovered that I instinctively understand the quirkiness, sensitivities, frustrations, fears and uniqueness of the creative personality. I am passionate about showing you how to grow as a fiction writer through a combination of teaching you fiction writing techniques and inspiring you to take the chances that fiction writing demands. I love watching how releasing your passion as a fiction writer, your belief in yourself, allows you to fly!
I Didn’t Need To Get It Right The First, Second Or Third Time.
I didn’t need to have the story plotted out. What I needed to do was trust in the creative process that was never a straight line, to have faith in myself as a fiction writer that meant picking myself up when I stumbled or crashed and burned as all artists do, and to never give up writing.
I Realized I Was Hungry To Teach People Who Needed Their Creativity And Passion To Write Validated.
So, one day I took my published books to my local newspaper and asked if they would write a story on me and my desire to start a Writing Workshop. They gave me a center page spread! Five women signed up. That was in 1985 and I have never looked back. Since then I have coached and mentored hundreds of writers. I discovered
I Discovered That I Instinctively Understand The Quirkiness, Sensitivities, Frustrations, Fears and Uniqueness Of The Creative Personality.
I love teaching, working with women and me who struggles I recognize as my own. I am passionate about showing yo how to grow as a fiction writer. I find working with other writers struggling to learn, develop and share to be fulfilling and fun. We always laugh a lot! I understood on a visceral level the importance of your understanding fiction writing techniques and how that understanding gives you options as a writer you wouldn't otherwise have. I love watching how releasing your passion as a fiction writer, strengthens your belief in yourself, allows you to fly!
I didn’t need to have the story plotted out. What I needed to do was trust in the creative process that was never a straight line, to have faith in myself as a fiction writer that meant picking myself up when I stumbled or crashed and burned as all artists do, and to never give up writing.
I Realized I Was Hungry To Teach People Who Needed Their Creativity And Passion To Write Validated.
So, one day I took my published books to my local newspaper and asked if they would write a story on me and my desire to start a Writing Workshop. They gave me a center page spread! Five women signed up. That was in 1985 and I have never looked back. Since then I have coached and mentored hundreds of writers. I discovered
I Discovered That I Instinctively Understand The Quirkiness, Sensitivities, Frustrations, Fears and Uniqueness Of The Creative Personality.
I love teaching, working with women and me who struggles I recognize as my own. I am passionate about showing yo how to grow as a fiction writer. I find working with other writers struggling to learn, develop and share to be fulfilling and fun. We always laugh a lot! I understood on a visceral level the importance of your understanding fiction writing techniques and how that understanding gives you options as a writer you wouldn't otherwise have. I love watching how releasing your passion as a fiction writer, strengthens your belief in yourself, allows you to fly!
All This Qualifies Me As Your Certified White Rabbit Guide For Your Journey Into Wonderland!
If you’re looking for a writing coach and this approach resonates with you, feel free to call me at 914 962 4432.
If you’re looking for a writing coach and this approach resonates with you, feel free to call me at 914 962 4432.
"Emily opened up a new door to my creativity. She showed me how to connect to my imagination – and my writing has really taken off!" ~ Vallerie Huyghue
No one knows as well as Emily Hanlon how to access that deep and rich inner world where our best characters and stories live." ~Janet King
"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? The angel, bright or dark, must be conjured before words can truly attach." ~Kurt Blankmeyer