Autore: Michelle L. Manning

Hi, I”m Carolyn Flynn, and I”m the story catalyst. Story is my abiding love. Nothing makes me braver, more buoyant and more authentically myself than to be in pursuit of story. If you have found me, you must also yearn to write a book that is bold, illuminating and true. You want to write a book that is worthy of a greater conversation. Maybe you know some parts of your story, but not all. Maybe you seek an enduring path to publication, but the ever-shifting terrain of the book business is disorienting. You”re daunted by discovering the message and delivering that book. I do the courage walk with authors, and together, we are targeted and joyful, attuning to the passion, vision and purpose of your book. My courage walk I”m a writer, and that”s the truest sentence I know. (That”s from my TEDx talk. Watch it here.) Others would not call me rich, but I feel like I have a fortune. I write. I”m abundant. I always have the path to my sacred yes, and it”s the page. What did it feel like the day you met up with your story idea? Or rather, the day your story found you? The day I met up with my creative inheritance was the October day when seven-year-old daring, curious, delightful me walked into a classroom with orange footprints traveling up the wall. Our teacher told us to write a story: Who invaded our classroom last night? Who walked on this wall? Every neuron in my imagination lit up. The scene was set in motion – ghosts passing through walls, witches streaking across a golden moon, spiders to dangle before my sister”s wild-eyed fright. It was pen up, game on. The page was my threshold, and it”s the place I return to again and again. You have a story that someone wants to hear. What would it feel like to joyfully write your way to that story? What would it feel like to stir a new conversation, to provoke new thought? What if your way of illuminating the world was through the page? What if story was the path? I believe in the power of story to elevate understanding, whether it”s through trade nonfiction, fiction, memoir or personal essay. I”m gratified to say that science believes that, too. The latest neuroscience research shows that we”re wired for story, and that we”re wired to share.