Creating A Guiding Writing Statement

The entire process of creating a statement that summarizes why I write and who I write for has been a challenge. I have had to dig deep into my own experiences, gifts and potential contributions to this world to really create this statement. There are several different formats I have utilized in preparing this statement and each have put a different spin on the issues I choose to focus on. Nonetheless, three years later I feel like I have narrowed down this statement to be something clear and mostly concise.

Hope*Writers (Guided Hope Circle) Format:
Problem: Women are stuck, living in pain, disengaged, in survival mode

Cause: Pain, Disappointed by life circumstances and relationships, Seeing through a lens of pain 

Solution: I provide four practical principles to move them towards a lens of HOPE, which reignites a passion for life. 

I help __________ (describe your reader)

• To _____________(what you help them with) 

• Through ___________(how you help them) 

I help women stuck in survival mode, disengaged and disappointed to move from experiencing life through a lens of pain to a lens of hope by practicing four principles that reignites their passion for life. 

Donald Miller (Story Brand's) Format: 

Problem: Women are stuck, living in pain, disengaged, in survival mode

Today many women (experience life or see) through a lens of pain and are stuck living in survival mode, disengaged and struggling to work through life’s disappointments.

Explain your plan/product to help them: Book

I provide practical/experiential steps for women to move from experiencing life through this lens of pain into a lens of hope 

Describe a successful ending to their story: reigniting a passion for life

to reignite a passion for life, so they can gain energy and build courage to thrive.

Today many women are living in survival mode, disengaged and struggling to work through life’s disappointments. I write about four practical principles that move women from survival mode to thrive mode in shifting from a lens of pain to a lens of hope reigniting their passion for life.

Monday Musings :: Enough

Our minds are dull and sometimes we don't fully understand the entire spectrum of a word.

"Enough" used to summon a lacking feeling in me when I heard it or read it and I directly connected it with "not having enough" or "not being enough".

However, as I have aged, I know see it in a different light.
I have "enough" has become a freeing term for me.
It now summons images of contentment and presence.
It's no longer about a "lack" of anything and more about the fullness.

Quality over quantity.
Are you searching for "enough"?
Might you already have it and simply not know it?

Notes :: TrusT Him completely.

TrusT Him completely.
Pursue everything patiently.

His way - uses delay to develop faith in us...

walk alongside Him

What has God promised you? : not sure :      (RUNWAY LIGHTS)
Practical circumstances
A Council of godly people
inner conviction
confirmation of God's WORD

release from the burden or open the door

Believers in Exile
genuine God-filled life --> talk with Him about where you are & where you want to be (in community - disciplining - practicing humble hospitality) --> feeling love & belonging

God's blessing to fall on our family

(times of refreshing) & restoration & a new hope --> a living hope 

Questions :: Book Writing

What is the WHY for your Book?

Why is it needed right now?

Why are you motivated to write this book?

What next steps do you need to take with your book? --> Proposal or draft

"This is a [What-Genre] that does [What-Transformation] for [Who-Reader] because [Why-Rationale]."
-Ryan Holiday, Perenniel Seller

The Cafe at the Edge of the World by John Strelecky
When Caregiving Calls by Aaron Blight

- Arti's email: bespokewritingfirm@gmail.com

Proposal Template: https://arielcurry.com/category/publishing-2/book-proposals
https://forms.gle/o7tgbD8oDL2qkd2A9

What do you want to contribute to the world?

Write the book that you need to write.

It's ridiculous to think that your art will make 

What transformational journey do you want to go on?

What brings you to life everyday?

What stirs the pot of life in you?

Color

What is the transformation I am inviting the reader/writer into?

Here's what I want to do, here's what I want to make...I don't even know if it will work or if I will receive back what I put it into you.

Valuable Advice

Would you rather be a writer, a therapist or an artist? or a declutter whiz (organizer)? What would you like to contribute to the world?

Do the continual revisions of the paintings that I have done in the past, just copy and then improvise. Take them and transform them.

No one can heal by yourself and no one can create by yourself.

Beta development Tiers (search for more)

Get our of your head and into your body (post publishing)

Take dictation from the silence.