About Me

Obsession, when properly focused, becomes expertise.     -  Suzanne Griscom     

I was born obsessed, and I’m still obsessed. I’m obsessed with Story; with the images, with the concept, with its long tail through time, with the perspectives; new twists and original versions, handed down, written down, lost and found, and untold until now. Along with the concept of Story, I am hooked on Words; on English words and the history of the language, on borrowed words from every other language, on adopted words, on evolved and forgotten words, on made-up words and official words and slang words. The nuance gained or lost in the ordering or reordering of words fascinates me, causing both pain and joy.

When I was eleven or twelve years old, my school librarian awarded me a certificate for reading and absorbing almost the entire school library. I was looking for something and the only way to find it was to read every book I could lay my hands on; so I read, obsessively. I’m talking books per day, not books per week. I read and I absorbed. Good books, mediocre books, terrible books; they all became a part of my paradigm and my perspective, my zeitgeist. I came to see the world, both the physical one we inhabit daily and the virtual one we inhabit vicariously, from a thousand points of view. When asked to see both sides of an issue, I saw one hundred sides of it. I view any experience from within and without, as an insider, an outsider, a participant and a voyeur; in any situation, I am actor, audience, director and recorder, popcorn vendor, valet, administrator, janitor, investor, passerby and the horse pulling the carriage outside.

This enormous capacity for perspective allows me to help clients tell their real story, whether through coaching individual writers or writing for businesses. Businesses have stories, just as people do, and I love teasing it out and displaying it in a manner that welcomes clients and ultimately increases profitability. What I do for businesses is to help them find their authentic “voice” and communicate to more of the clients and customers who resonate with that true voice.  Finding your voice, as a business or as a writer, is critical to telling your story properly.

My obsesssion with finding stories enables me to help business owners find their own critical, authentic writer’s voice to communicate effectively with their customers. This obsessions also mkes me a valuable coach to individual writers find their “writer’s voice” to tell their stories and give the stories a fully fleshed-out existence.

If you’re ready to discover your voice and tell your story, learn more about how I can help you here, or contact me with any questions.