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Become the writer you want to be

You’ve probably heard the classic advice, “Write what you know.” Is that helping you become the writer you want to be?

What if you try writing what you DON’T know?

When you only write what you know, it can be a struggle. The words don’t come out the way they sound in your head. You might think it’s your fault: you’re just not a good writer.

It’s not your fault! We’ve learned, over 20 years of teaching workshops, that everyone (yes, everyone) is capable of writing with originality, authenticity, and emotional power.

That includes YOU.

Who We Are

The Creators of Imaginative Storm

Allegra Huston

Author of the acclaimed Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found, the novel A Stolen Summer, and many screenplays and magazine articles. Holder of a First in English from Oxford University, and previously Editorial Director of a major London publishing house.

James Navé

Author of 100 Days: Poems After Cancer, slam poet and emcee, storyteller, co-creator with Julia Cameron of The Artist’s Way Creativity Camps. And holder of an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

We come from opposite ends of the writing spectrum: that’s what makes our collaboration so unique and so powerful.

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THE VIDEO COURSE

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Transform your writing, and your approach to writing, forever!

Write What You Don’t Know

  • Discover how to tell your story

  • Fill your writing with emotional power

  • Teach your inner critic to speak when it’s useful and shut up when it isn’t

  • Cultivate your writing voice

  • Say goodbye to writers block forever

  • Explore the infinite potential of your imagination

  • Learn how to write fearlessly. Surprise yourself!

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How can you write what you don’t know?

Have you ever had the feeling, as you were writing, that a wonderful thought just came to you? It felt spontaneous, natural, as if you didn’t have to “think” it up?

Fresh, original writing doesn’t come from your conscious, rational, intentional mind. It comes from your unconscious and just needs to be encouraged to emerge.

The Imaginative Storm method stimulates your imagination, and trains your rational mind to recognize, capture, and shape those creative gifts into writing that will amaze you.

Illustration by Joey Guidone showing a quill pen in an inkwell and the ink inside the well is stormy waves

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