That’s right–I have the opportunity to get on the road with Pure Slush Press and the Seattle Lit Crawl from Aug-Oct 2015. Of course I have said yes! Now I need your help to get me there–
Check out my video and campaign and thank you so much in advance!
COACHING SERVICES
Whether you are looking for writing instruction, creative feedback, or accountability and motivation, a writing coach can be a very efficient way to light a fire under you and your work. I bring my 12 years of editorial experience and 6 years as an academic professor in together with my encouraging yet focused one-on-one coaching style, personalized to help you get the specific kind of support you need.
Four-week, 8-week, and 12-week packages tailored to your specific needs. Can include edits and/or creative feedback, phone consultations, and deadlines for those who like them.
Sample packages:
$250: 4-weeks coaching including 10,000 words of edits/creative feedback, 120 mins phone consulting and unlimited email support
($175 for a package w/out edits or w/out phone)
$450/$325: 8-weeks coaching
$600/$450-12-weeks coaching
Please contact me using the form below to talk about your work and how I might be able to help!
“It was a pleasure working with Nancy on my manuscript. She provided professional, insightful services, and truly has a bead on the reader’s perspectives and interests. She has a knack for allowing the author to stay true to the spirit of their work in a way that it can be enjoyed by the widest audience base possible. Stop your search—you’ve found your editor.”
Carl Arbogast, The Sand Squids
Please feel free to email me with questions.
nancystohlman@gmail.com
Or contact me through the form below.
A Gathering of the Flashy and Flash-Curious
The first ever FBomb National Flash Fiction Festival! No panels! No workshops! Just the biggest Fbomb flash fiction reading ever and YOU are invited. Our features and special guest are traveling from East and West Coasts to converge for one night of flash fiction in Denver! With music by Nick Busheff!
Fbomb Reading Series Event Page
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Host Nancy Stohlman!
Nancy Stohlman’s books include the flash fiction collection The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, the novels The Monster Opera and Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, and four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, which was a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. When she is not writing she is the lead singer of the lounge metal band Kinky Mink. Find out more about her at http://www.nancystohlman.com
Featuring Paul Beckman! Paul Beckman collects memories and punchboards. Some publishing credits: Pank, Connotation Press, Journal of Microliterature, Litro, Boston Literary Magazine, The Connecticut Review & other fine magazines online and in print. He’s had three collections and a novella published. His latest flash story collection, Peek from Big Table Press, came out in February 2015 weighing in at 65 stories and 117 pages. It can be purchases from his published story website http://www.paulbeckmanstories.com or Amazon.
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Featuring Robert Vaughan! Robert Vaughan has work published in over 500 online and print magazines. He’s the author of three collections of poetry: Microtones (Cervena Barva Press, 2012); Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits (Deadly Chaps Press, 2013); and Addicts & Basements (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014). He also edited Flash Fiction Fridays (2011), selected writings from his two year radio show on WUWM. He’s currently senior editor at JMWW and Lost in Thought magazines, and is on the Advisory Board of Literary Orphans. His awards include Micro-Fiction (2012), and Gertrude Stein Awards (2013, 2014). He is an AWP Panelist and teaches workshops in various topics like poetry, hybrid writing, and playwriting. He leads roundtables at Red Oak Writing in Milwaukee, WI.
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With special guest Karen Stefano!
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3 Perfectly Good Reasons Why You Might Be Avoiding Your Manuscript
If you’re one of those people who began your manuscript years ago, it can be painful for you to see it sitting there unfinished. You might be beating yourself up with a bunch of “shoulds” and attacking your supposed lack of discipline. It can make you feel hopeless, drained of energy and questioning why you even began–or if it’s even worth finishing. With all that negative self-talk happening every time you think about your manuscript, it’s no wonder that you keep avoiding it!
But there are usually some very good reasons why you are avoiding it, and the good news is it’s not as hopeless as it might feel.
1. You are a better writer now. Plain and simple. If you started writing your manuscript even one year ago, chances are you are a better writer now. And that’s a good thing! That’s the beauty of practice paying off. But it can also feel frustrating when you realize that first page/chapter/draft, the one you labored over, might have made you a better writer but now doesn’t live up to your abilities.
2. You are in a different emotional place than when you began. Often the impetus that drove us to the page in the first place fades and then the work starts to feel estranged. Perhaps whatever we were grappling with has been resolved. Perhaps we are on the other side of a life change. Perhaps the manuscript was part of our process and now, faced with the necessary revisions that finishing a manuscript requires, we aren’t “feeling it.”
3. You are overly loyal to your original vision. This is a big one. Loyalty isn’t a bad thing, after all you’ve probably already put in countless hours of work on this manuscript. But sometimes we become so attached to our original vision that we block creative inspiration. Sometimes we have read and reread our sentences so many times that we can no longer imagine them any other way. And therein lies the problem: when we can no longer imagine possibilities for our work, when everything is known and nothing unknown, it becomes very difficult to sustain the excitement needed to return over and over.
So what can be done? Many things, but one of my favorites is re-introducing a sense of play and possibility, which can loosen what has become stuck and add the necessary spice back into your writer-manuscript relationship.
If this sounds like you, or you want to learn more about my Finish That Manuscript online workshop, I’d like to invite you to join me for a free Q & A call on Wednesday, June 17, 7 pm MST/9 pm EST. Please use the form below to chat with me about your manuscript or contact me directly at nancystohlman@gmail.com
I look forward to hearing from you, and Happy Writing!
Nancy Stohlman 