If you’re a writer, you’re probably no stranger to creative blocks, those days when nothing you get on the page feels quite right.
Sometimes, though, the block goes deeper than a passing frustration. Sometimes you look up from the keyboard and discover your writing life has become more like a constant doom spiral than a drafting process.
Instead of telling stories, you’re playing word Tetris with the same five pages and ducking away to make yet another absolutely vital cup of tea, desperately hoping you’ll stop feeling so stuck.
If you have a list of beloved books that changed your life, but can’t finish one of your own drafts to save your life… you might be a disenchanted writer. And that’s not a bad thing to be.
A disenchanted writer isn’t a failure or a fatalist. You’re a seeker and a visionary.
You’re looking for something you’ve lost along the way. Something deeper than craft mechanics and word count goals (although you’ve got those, too).
A disenchanted writer still believes storytelling can be transformative—for yourself, for readers, and for creating a more just, enlivened world.
You still want to create stories that make your bones thrum and your breath sing.
If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be stuck. You’d be following the formulas and building functional little word machines: plot diagrams bolted to character arcs powered by themes. But disenchanted writers don’t want to write books that are all machine, no ghost.
You still have a storyteller’s mythic vision. Now you just need to rekindle the radical potential of your writing process. And once you do, anything is possible.
Ready to write stories that feel inspirited and alive, not mechanical and dead?
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Mary intuitively understood my fictional world and worked with me to clarify my vision. Her feedback was exactly what I needed to deepen my ideas and move forward with a much stronger piece of fiction.
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- Nada, science fiction writer
Monthly episodes exploring supportive, intuitive ways to get out of the drafting doom spiral and back onto the labyrinth path of discovery.
Plus, each episode is paired with actionable tools and practices to help you bypass anxiety blocks and reconnect with your creative vision.
I'm Mary, a writer and editor committed to helping queer, nonbinary, and women creatives access their most powerful storytelling.
Together, we'll make sure your finished manuscript truly captures your deepest vision—so you can finally let it loose on the world.