Pixie Lighthorse | Self-Healing Writer

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Writing & Self-Publishing Self-Study Classes

Zoetry is a new way to engage your writing that’s sourced from your own cavernous depths–like artesian water from the centuries-old well of your spirit. It’s slightly mystical, but positively grounded. It exists for you to grow in a meaningful direction with your writing and as a writer.

These courses are designed to help you:

  • Commit to your writing practice to communicate your thoughts and ideas.
  • Think outside of the box to write and self-publish.
  • Maintain the control and rights to your work.

 

Zoetry: Writing For Vital Nourishment

SELF-STUDY COURSE

I’ll be honest: I want you to have a narrow and deep relationship with your innate and genius ability to communicate thoughts and ideas, while maintaining a broad outlook for how your work will land and how it belongs in the context of the world we live in today. I want you (okay, everyone) to CARE about the impact of your work as it continues to evolve, and to see it as much more than a brand, signature, or legacy. Writing for Vital Nourishment exists because of my belief that our words and thoughts create reality, and they have the power to deliver some of the critical nutrients we humans are most ravenous for. Writing is our magic wand, and we get to have a say in how its magic reaches into the hearts of readers.

To fully enjoy this course, come in acknowledging yourself as a writer. If you’re struggling with labels and identifiers, issues of claiming and deserving, etc., it will color your potential to learn, grow, and thrive. Even if you have to enlist a bit of fake-it-til-ya-make-it, you’ll have a lot more fun if you’re not grappling with opposing ideas about who you are, what you do, and whether you’re worthy. If it helps, admit that you write, rather than to call yourself a writer. See how you feel when the course is over. You may get a boost that takes the charge out of what you call yourself and maybe even eliminates a need for it altogether.

Social media and business copy counts as writing. Social media gives everyone a chance to write and express meaningfully. My thought is that if I’m going to be on social media or show up in the public forum, I want to be helpful and honest with my words. Otherwise, I have other things I’d rather be doing. Because I believe our thoughts and words create reality, social media is a great place to practice sharing what matters most. Many social media posts expand and become chapters in my books or class content.

Think outside the box about where you write. Content-creation counts as writing. Poetry, zines, children’s books, magazine articles, blogging, and even greeting cards/love notes are all containers that carry power in word form. There’s plenty of room for you to find a home for your nourishing words in a way that serves and multiplies.

In this Self-study Course, we’ll cover:

Ideastorming

Become clear on your motivations for writing, work intimately with your thoughts about what you’d like to write, make a map of your writing’s potential impact. Shoot for efficiency. Expand and contract. Sense and cull. Prune while leaving room for growth in new directions. Discuss & modify exercises that will help you in the early stages of your projects. Make a plan to nourish a specific part of your readers’ spirits.

Commitment

Gain understanding of why the work is valuable (especially helpful if you’re not writing a traditional proposal). Consider how you think of your writing. Explore your judgments of it and the effects of picking it apart/stopping and starting/criticizing it/helicopter parenting it. Look at phobias and fears about all aspects your find too risky to share.  Examine the archetypes of your work–when formed, what qualities will it have that give it shape? Delve into your hopes for your relationship and the impacts of your writing

Words as Nutrients

Review your writing style and how your language lands on others. Dig into the notes you leave your readers on. Goldmine for what nourishes and feeds their spirits. Discover what aspects of your communication touch and move you and your readers. Survey your work for the possibilities it creates for others: communal, spiritual, mental, physical, psychological, relational, and emotional. Discuss what moves you in the music you respond to, the feasts of food you most love to see on the table, what you bring to the altar.  

The Writing Writes Itself

Often with writing we ask ourselves to get out of our own way. In this module, we will explore how to get out of writing’s way. It knows what to do, and what it wants–we don’t have to micromanage it. We can hold it accountable, but like children, your writing will grow into what it is meant to be. We’ll look at what I call Liminal Writing–channeled creating during the in-between times such as just before sleep, in the dream time and when stirring awake, as well as late at night when the day’s duties aren’t competing. We’ll also try on what it feels like to acknowledge how little or how much the writing is actually about us, and about who and how it helps.

Materials:
  • Internet speed that allows for streaming video
  • Optional notebook/pen for note taking
PDF Format Includes:
  • Written lessons and worksheets
  • Pre-recorded Audios
  • Pre-recorded Videos

$99

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Zoetry: Self-Publishing For Atypical Writers

Self-study

Self-publishing has been a wild ride for me. I would like to share my experiences with you in this unique course to help you decide how you’d like to put your writing out into the world. I say atypical because it describes the persona that just doesn’t quite fit the mold. Maybe you are deeply creative but lack organization/executive function skills. Perhaps you experience yourself as having a short attention span, or have trouble getting started. Maybe you like to let the work evolve while you are writing it (or it is writing you, as I like to think it does) and stall-out with your writing based on the belief that this can be problematic when working with conventional publishers and proposals. Maybe you’d like to complete the work before soliciting a publisher. Maybe you’d like to have no hands in your pockets or external voices influencing your writing and it’s projected impact (this is big for me). I identify as neurodivergent, and that means writing books didn’t come easily to me.

To fully enjoy this course, come in fired up and prepared to go over nuts and bolts. If you have a project in mind, it will help you bring questions that matter when you start busting a move to order bar codes and ISBNs, choosing cover design artists, and writing your bio. I had no idea where to begin–having someone who knew publishing and printing made all the difference between my first book sitting randomly in a bunch of blog posts and being held in the hands of thousands and read worldwide today.

In this self-study course, we’ll cover:

SELF-PUB CLIMATE AND THE CRISIS OF CONVENTION

What’s actually happening out there in publishing? The tradition of working with publishing houses of any size has been considered a gold standard–not unlike the University you get your letters from. Is it all about status? Distribution? An advance on future royalties? What are the trends showing us and telling us about people who read, including us? Unexpectedly, in light of Kindle-like technology, readers still want to hold books and magazines in their hands. Amazon rules the industry-but must we work with them? What are the long term effects of self-publishing on your work? How is your work perceived in the marketplace if it’s self-published-is it less credible?  Today, many publishers expect you to take a starring role in promoting your own books, taking yourself on tour, and driving traffic to their buy sites. A question to ask is what the author receives in exchange for the efforts. Traditional publishers need you to help them make money and boost their brands. They’re not evil, but they are big businesses that care about bottom lines.

BENEFITS OF SELF-PUBLISHING

There are many reasons to self-pub and just as many in favor of soliciting big publishing. If you can drive traffic to your book or have a built-in audience, self-pub may be a better option. If you’re shooting for a best seller, conventional publishers have something to offer you. In this module, we’ll explore long-term goals for your work and how to move it through the channels it serves. 

HOW TO ROCK YOUR SELF-PUB BIZ

I’ve been asked many questions about self-publishing around what it costs and what kind of help is needed to upload an e-book to Amazon. This is a module to answer all self-publishing questions I can for you. There are some skills you may already have, apps that can help, and sometimes outside help is needed. I have tips for finding a great editor, generating energy around your work in social media, and sharing your upcoming work with friends who want to help get it read. My trusty book manager Heather will be on-hand to explain how she has helped me create my last two books, and how we wholesale them. Also exciting is that we created a donations process for giving hundreds of books per year to those who want to use them in their programs and curriculums. We are so busy with book biz that we created a full-time position for her last year!

DISORDERLY AUTHORING ON YOUR TERMS, IN YOUR VOICE

If you have a life outside of writing, you’ll have a lot of fun exploring many other reasons to consider self-publishing.  A big reason for me is that I am clear that my writing doesn’t belong in anyone else’s pocket: I’m raising two kids, I write in Owl Time in liminal space (the cracks and crevasses of the conscious day), and I prefer to work on my own flexible deadlines. My writing and books need freedom to change and evolve. I want to be able to edit how I please. In this way, the work gets to keep growing, rather than be static on a shelf. In this module, I’ll speak about how self-publishing serves my home life and the self-starting tips I use to stay disciplined and in service to it.

Materials:
  • Internet speed that allows for streaming video
  • Optional notebook/pen for note taking
PDF Format Includes:
  • Written lessons and worksheets
  • Pre-recorded Audios
  • Pre-recorded Videos

$99

$99.00Add to cart