What happens when a life spent in international development turns into fiction? In this episode, debut novelist Johanna Kirwan joins me to talk about her stunning book Seven Lives — seven interconnected stories of women navigating love, loss, and purpose across the globe. We dive into: How Johanna transformed decades of field experience into layered, human storiesThe line between autofiction and memoir — and why she chose fictionThe creative freedom that comes with writing later in lifeHer ch...
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What happens when a life spent in international development turns into fiction? In this episode, debut novelist Johanna Kirwan joins me to talk about her stunning book Seven Lives — seven interconnected stories of women navigating love, loss, and purpose across the globe. We dive into: How Johanna transformed decades of field experience into layered, human storiesThe line between autofiction and memoir — and why she chose fictionThe creative freedom that comes with writing later in lifeHer ch...
How I’m Editing My Book Without Losing the Magic of Automatic Writing
The Write Habit
7 minutes
5 months ago
How I’m Editing My Book Without Losing the Magic of Automatic Writing
How do you edit a book that was written in a meditative, channeled state — full of intuition, emotion, and flow? In this episode, I’m sharing what it’s been like to edit the first chapter of my book You Are Already Free, which I wrote entirely through automatic writing. Spoiler: Editing a book like this is completely different from any editing process I’ve known before as a book coach, journalist, and academic. Inside this episode: • How I discovered the true structure of my book — and...
The Write Habit
What happens when a life spent in international development turns into fiction? In this episode, debut novelist Johanna Kirwan joins me to talk about her stunning book Seven Lives — seven interconnected stories of women navigating love, loss, and purpose across the globe. We dive into: How Johanna transformed decades of field experience into layered, human storiesThe line between autofiction and memoir — and why she chose fictionThe creative freedom that comes with writing later in lifeHer ch...
