Who is Your Favorite Antagonist and Why? Mine is Ted Lasso.
Welcome to
LOVING THE PROCESS
A writing community where we help writers get out of their heads and into their hearts, because that's where the magic is.
Don't Know Where to Start?
8 Part Intensive (aka Writers Retreat in a Box)
The Heart of The Story
This guided 8 part journey offers recorded lessons & powerful prompts designed to cause breakthroughs in your understanding around the one thing no story can be without: the deep emotional arc of your protagonist. Once purchased, you can listen to the pre-recorded prompts over and over from the convenience of your phone.
Need Help Getting Unstuck?
8 Part Intensive (aka Writers Retreat in a Box)
Embracing Your Villains
Give your Heroine/Hero a challenge worth turning the pages for. This 8 part intensive (with pre-recorded prompts you can listen to on your phone) will ask you all the right questions, in just the right order, to help you dive deep and develop an epic Antagonist that help bring your whole story to life.
Need to Develop a Slow & Steady Writing Practice
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Do you have a story you need to write but feel like you never have enough time?
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Are you wasting energy beating yourself up about not writing?
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Questioning your own talent?
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Driving yourself crazy with stops and starts, and false promises to yourself?
Do you wish someone would just give you an easy roadmap to follow, so you could just embed writing time into your schedule and ensure you keep moving forward, no matter how busy things get? Want to finally give your inner storyteller the satisfaction it deserves?
Join the Slow Writing Community
You'll get weekly bite sized challenges that guide you from concept to completion, and a writing community to share it with, via monthly Zoom check ins. $14.99 per/mo. First month is FREE. Cancel anytime. There's nothing to lose but your guilt over not writing.
A word from our Founder, Holly Payberg-Torroija
Hi. My name is Holly and as a writing and creativity coach there is one thing I know for certain: your stories are important. And they’re not going away.
Sure, you can try to keep kicking the can down the road, and wasting energy beating yourself up about not writing them if you want. But I’m here to suggest that your stories won't be ignored. They want to be written for a reason. That, often, they are the key to your growth and ultimate fulfillment, and potentially the key to others growth as well.
So don’t you owe it to yourself, and your potential audience, to take your stories seriously? To learn how to allow your stories to flow freely onto the page and do what they do?
If you're ready to take that leap, consider letting me help you. I know and love the writer’s mind. I know the special brand of resistances it puts up. Which is why I have used every inch of my 30 plus years of personal writing experience to create a process based system with the power to circumvent those resistances, until writers have the strength to do it for themselves.
Holly is a graduate of both The Second City sketch writing and Improv programs. And has a history of working in all aspects of the entertainment business, from her early days on set working on high profile projects like FRIENDS and ANALYZE THIS, to her development days working as Director of Development for Signature Pictures, and partner in June Bug Pictures, to writing and producing her own indie content such as the family comedy THE GUARDIANS, and show running several award winning digital series THE SEX TRADE, GG'S JAVA JOINT and FEATHERS AND TOAST.
Testimonials
Kelly Carlin
Holly's Heart of The Story Intensive took me from having lost the thread and motivation to write the book I wanted to write to enthusiasm, clarity and a whole new angle. Her ability to make me feel safe enough to explore new areas and depths is profound. I think she’s a writing witch!
Harriet Kamakil
Holly's coaching helped me find my voice and the courage to tell my story. Her kindness, compassion, wisdom and humor provides a safe space to explore my writing using a proven process that truly works.
Pam R.
I only dreamed of writing a novel and now I'm actually doing it, thanks to Holly's incredibly skillful guidance. She's provided the tools to match my creativity so I can bring my story to the page.