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Creative Writing and Authorship Coach

Author of 25+ original, self-published books offers help and support all over the world, via Skype and the telephone system; and in Hebden Bridge, face-to-face.

Overcome writers block; learn how to be a writer, when the world wants to close you down!

By Dr Jim Byrne – Creative and Reflective Writing and Authorship Coach/Mentor

If you need help or support with your creative writing, technical writing, reflective writing, academic writing, or autobiographical writing, then I could be part of your solution!

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Latest update: 23rd November 2022

Hello and welcome to my page of information about Authorship Coaching and Creative Writing Support.

My name is Jim Byrne, and I’ve been writing every day since I was nineteen years old, and that is significantly more than fifty years ago.

I could tell you all about the books I’ve written and published – and I will do that further down this page – but first I want to tell you about a short story that I wrote recently, and published on line today. See Blue Boy Karma, here.***

On that page, you will find a link to my recently published book of five short stories***, and my revised and updated fictionalized autobiographical story of the life of Daniel O’Beeve.***

If you like the way I write, and would like to learn from me how to improve your chances of writing like this, then please contact me for a one-off session of Authorship Coaching, during which I will teach you the strategies and techniques that I use regularly, and those I used to generate my short stories and my fictionalized autobiographical story.

We can meet for up to 60 minutes.

I will tell you about the two major strategies I use to boost my creativity and refill the creative well from time to time.

I will also recommend three new strategies which will help you to enhance your store of images and sounds; to prime your memory to deliver new plot and character ideas; and to “set the ball rolling” towards the generation of a new short story, any time you choose.

And I will recommend some reading material which will enhance your writer’s toolbox.

A one-off session of Authorship Coaching currently costs just £180.00.

To set up an appointment, call me today:

Jim Byrne at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

Or phone me on (+44) 01422 843 629 to set up a face-to-face or Skype meeting.

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Previously Updated on 6th September 2022.

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In his Life of Dr Samuel Johnson, James Boswell famously wrote that only a blockhead would write for any reason except to make money.

This is a profoundly unhelpful statement because, if you wait to receive an assignment to write, you will never become a writer.  And if you wait for a publisher to offer you an advance before you put pen to paper, you will throw away any chance you ever had of becoming an accomplished writer.

Writers are people who write.  We write because we have to.  Our writing is a special form of the social propensity to make up stories in order to understand our lives.  We put down on paper what others merely utter in conversations, or think about in their heads in the dead of night, when they are forced by wakefulness to contemplate where they have been, and where they think they might be going in their lives.

Humans are story tellers by nature.  That is how we both create a culture and carry it on.  That is also how we construct our philosophies and create our science paradigms.  And how we move from sanity to insanity and back again! In the absence of stories to construct or consume, we would be less than fully human.

But sometimes we get blocked, or dry up.  Sometimes we struggle to find the path that we thought we were on, which has now petered out.  And sometimes we struggle to get started at all.

We know we have something to say, but we are tongue-tied; hand-tied; barricaded into a story of ‘no possibility’; or locked into a sanitized shed in which our most painful experiences have been excluded.  But without facing up to the reality of our past life, we are unlikely to ever write anything authentic, with the ring of truth.  Something that will grab the reader by the collar and pull them in close, and make their heart beat a little faster, or their mind to illuminate a dark corner of their own life.

I write every day, even when I cannot think of what I want to write about. A few years ago now, I wrote the first 18 years of my life, as autobiography; and some friends really liked it.

When I expanded it to the first 40 years of my life, as a fictionalized autobiography, it attracted a lot of attention.

When I made it available as an eBook, 94 people downloaded it in the first week.

Recently I have completely revised this book, and reissued it with a new title, as follows:

The Disconnected Heart of Daniel O: Fictionalized autobiography of a seeker after love

This book is about one man’s journey away from his homeland and his emotionally barren family and priest-dominated culture, to a place where he might find love, acceptance and personal liberation.

Daniel’s heart-wrenching journey to freedom is like a detective novel, a psychological thriller, and a science fiction adventure, all rolled into one.

He shows the reader how to heal their own psychological wounds from childhood, and especially from their relationship with an unskillful or damaged mother.

…For more information, and a substantial extract from the book, please click this link…

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Recently, I published books on anger, stress, how to have a great marriage, and I am currently working on two books about childhood trauma, and how to recover from traumatic experiences.

If you want to see the top 20 selling books I have written (and/or co-authored with Renata Taylor-Byrne), and published, please go to this web page: ABC Bookstore Online UK.***

I have also written lots of articles and papers.

In 2018, I wrote and published a book on Lifestyle Counselling and Coaching, which can be reviewed here: Lifestyle coaching and counselling.***

And then, a few months later, I wrote a new book on How to Write a New Life for Yourself.***

See the homepage of the ABC Bookstore Online UK***.

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And I have recently posted two new blogs on the intersections of philosophy, psychology and literature.***

The earlier one of which was about Freud, sex, literature and psychology.***

And there was a third one on Reading, writing, literature and self-healing.***

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When I get blocked, I use two exercises I’ve been using for years to get back on track.  The first one fills up my creative well.  And the second one clears out any blockages to my creative flow.  Without them I could not have written the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of words I have written in the past 21 years!  (In 2006-8 alone, I wrote 350,000 words towards my doctoral thesis!)

I have been writing since 1965, and so, even though my main job is counselling people with emotional problems, and writing books about counselling and therapy, and self help, (and writing analytical reports for my counselling and therapy clients), it makes sense for me to offer to help struggling authors to find their way through the barren maze that so often is the lot of creative writers; or even postgraduate students working on dissertations and theses.

If you are stuck, dried up or blocked, then I can help!

I can help you to persist, instead of giving up prematurely, and missing the boat! 🙂

I can offer support, advice, guidance, and a creative stimulus.

My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting over Skype or the Telephone network (or face to face) is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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Client testimonial:

“Hi Jim, Great news! I’ve now got a publisher interested in the three poems, two plays and the novella that I wrote as a result of your inspirational coaching…”

P.C., Todmorden: (Three conversations about how to write from the heart).

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Authorship Coaching

Coaching, counselling and therapy for writers of all varieties

by Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling and published author

31st December 2020 – Updated on January 28th 2022

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Introduction

If you are a frustrated author/artist/creative writing person, who is struggling to cope with the repeated rejections which are the lot of creative producers – or you are grappling with creative burnout, or writers’ block – then I can help you.

I can also help if you need to produce academic writing – including: essays, articles, reports, a dissertation or a thesis.

And I can help with technical report writing and all forms of non-fiction writing.

One of the main ways in which authors and other creative artists become stuck is that we feel the pain of rejection and hurt when our work is not taken up with the degree of enthusiasm which we had hoped and expected; and sometimes the sense of rejection and loss is extreme or even total.

The worst thing we can do with the sense of hurt and grief is to bottle it up, and refuse to feel it, and thereby to fail to process it.

“It is impossible to think about ‘the single story’ (of a people) without thinking about power!”

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Perhaps you have tried to write something powerful and successful, for a year or two – or a decade or two – and now you have given up trying, because you believe the case is hopeless.

Or perhaps you have just dried up, because you cannot get below the crust of pain that has congealed around your creative talent!

Or you cannot create because your ideas are frozen into pre-existing metaphors!

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My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting over Skype or the Telephone network is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up

In this kind of context, Churchill’s advice was to “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up!”

And Brian Tracy recommends that we “Fail forwards!”

And Robert the Bruce learned from a persistent little spider to “Try, try and try again!”

Persistence is the key to success.  Not talent, or genius, or privilege.  Persistence alone can guarantee your eventual success!  But you cannot persist if you are feeling hurt.

Some creative writers find they win the race because they hang in there until everybody else has dropped out!

The most important lesson is to ignore the negativity of the critics. This is how Theodore Roosevelt expressed it:

“It is not the critic who counts, not the (wo)man who points out how the strong (wo)man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the (wo)man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends him(her)self in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if s/he fails while daring greatly, knows his/her place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat”. 

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My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting over Skype or the Telephone network is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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Long suffering and short suffering

Most humans are somewhat phobic about pain, and when any pain arrives in our lives, the temptation is to push it away.  But the only place we can push it is out of conscious awareness, into the non-conscious part of our minds.  Robin Skynner, a famous British family therapist, describes this as “putting it behind the screens”.  And whatever you have behind the screens tends to control your present and future actions.  So if you have pain and bruising from rejection of your creative efforts hidden behind the screen (of your non-conscious mind) then you will tend to be wary about trying again, because of a (non-unconscious) fear of failure or fear of rejection!

So, when we hide our pain of rejection behind the screens, we end up with what Werner Erhard called “long-suffering-stuff”!  The pain goes on and on, below the level of conscious awareness, but it stops us taking any more risks!

What I learned from Werner Erhard and others was this: If you want to get rid of the pain, it’s best to face up to it immediately and totally.  It hurts for a while, as you process it, and then it disappears. It goes into the background of your life, as something ‘complete’, ‘burned out’, and belonging to the past!

So, I’m for ‘short-suffering-stuff’, which means I face up to the pain, feel it totally, digest it, and then allow it to drift into the past.

Then I can get back on the ‘creative horse’ and charge the next fence!  That, therefore is what I would recommend to you, if you have been hurt by rejection of your creative writing efforts in the past.

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Back on the horse

If you want to get back on the creative horse and try again, then you have to face up to your past failures, and to digest them.  I can help you with that.

I understand both the therapeutic processes involved, and the creative processes involved.

As Julia Cameron writes:  “One of the most difficult tasks an artist must face is a primal one: artistic survival.  All artists must learn the art of surviving loss: loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief.  In addition to our many gains, we inevitably suffer these losses in an artistic career. They are the hazards of the road and, in many ways, its signposts.  Artistic losses can be turned into artistic gains and strengths – but not in the isolation of the beleaguered artist’s brain.

“As mental-health experts are quick to point out, in order to move through loss and beyond it, we must acknowledge it and share it.  Because artistic losses are seldom openly acknowledged or mourned, they become artistic scar tissue that blocks artistic growth.  Deemed too painful, too silly, too humiliating to share and so to heal, they become, instead, secret losses”. (The Artist’s Way, page 129).

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My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting – (over Skype; the telephone system; or face-to-face in Hebden Bridge) or the Telephone network is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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My background

I came from a largely uneducated, rural Irish background.  I grew up in the wild streets of Dublin in the 1950’s – at least from the age of fourteen to eighteen years.  But I failed to imbibe any of the sounds of Sean O’Casey (Ireland’s Shakespeare), J.M. Synge, Brendan Behan, or any of those other powerful writing talents of Irish history.  Instead, I spent my teenage years doing Judo, and learning metal jewellery skills.

But I did spend a lot of time browsing the bookstalls of the bookshops on the Quays, near O’Connell’s Bridge. But with a handful of exceptions (like Robin Hood, and Hazard and Heroism), I mostly read non-fiction; psychology; general knowledge; martial arts.

Then, in England, at the age of 19 years, I began to learn the skills of writing by drafting notices for noticeboards in the RAF.  (This is not significantly dissimilar to Graham Green and Evelyn Waugh learning their novel writing art by cobbling obituaries together on a daily basis, for The Times, in London). By the age of 22 years I was writing articles and papers for left-wing journals in London and Dublin.  By the age of 27 years, I was studying economics, politics, industrial relations and statistics, at Ruskin College, Oxford, and writing an essay each week which had to be read out to my tutor at my weekly tutorials.

By the age of 30, I was working in Third World development, in Bangladesh, where I wrote and published two books, which had limited circulation. (Some of my reports came to the attention of two men, an American and a Norwegian, in the UN, who praised me for my writing style and the impactfulness of my communication). Then I moved to Thailand where I wrote a number of influential reports on Northeast Rural Village Technology and Rural Economy, which had virtually no impact.  My writings in Bangladesh and Thailand were considered too radical, and too populist, to appeal to ‘the powers that be’.

Back in the UK, at the age of 33-34, I could feel the social pressure to ‘climb back into’ my ill-fitting little ‘social box’, like a good little conformist, and allow the ‘preordained winners’ – born with silver spoons in their little mouths – to do the interesting stuff!  But I refused to shrink my self-concept.  I therefore began to train as a Technical Author; study Creative Writing; study maths and technology with the Open University; and to write books, and edit and ghost-write books, mainly for the Intermediate Technology Development Group, in Rugby.  In addition, I wrote and illustrated my own book on pneumatic control systems.  All of this feverish productivity amounted to very little in terms of impact or influence. And certainly, I made less money than the local window cleaner!

So I then moved into local authority education and training organizations in Rochdale, Leeds and Bradford, and wrote a number of reports which brought in lots of money to pay the salaries of a few individuals who made a small impact on the lives of young working class teenagers, some adult women, and some people from minority ethnic communities. (During this time, I also trained as a Further Education Lecturer, and completed my Masters degree in Education, again with the Open University).

But the payback to me, or reward for effort, was still very little – and my work remained almost invisible.

Nevertheless, I kept on writing – my next project being a novel, which was never published – but from which I learned a lot about how not to write a novel.

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My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting in Hebden Bridge; or over Skype or the Telephone network; is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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More recent writing experience

Over the past 24 years, or more, I have been working mainly as a counsellor, coach, and psychotherapist.  Alongside that work, I have written hundreds of web pages:

At abc-counselling.org; and:

The ABC Bookstore Online; and:

ecent-institute.org;

Plus:

dozens of articles; and:

about 25 books,…

…apart from a 350,000 word doctoral thesis (which had to be whittled down to 50,000 – and combined with three papers each of 10,000 words) to earn my Doctorate in Counselling.

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My Morning Pages

For several months (in 2020), now, I’ve been undertaking Julia Cameron’s course in ‘creative recovery’ – which I have done in the past on at least a couple of occasions.  (I have been doing it sporadically and inconsistently for decades! But consistency is best!)

This involves writing three pages of ‘stream of consciousness’ every morning, in order to throw up creative insights and solutions to current problems.  (Because of pressure of work, I’ve had to reduce this to three mornings per week!)

(I have studied creativity in a number of different forms since the 1980’s; including Edward de Bono’s lateral thinking and Six Thinking Hats; Barrie Konicov’s Creative Thinking Subliminal Persuasion Self-Hypnosis program; and Tony Buzan’s Mind mapping and Creative Thinking courses, in London.  On the Creative Thinking course, based on a couple of practical tests of creative usage of common items, my creativity was assessed as being equivalent to an IQ of 260, which puts me off the end of the normal scale of measurable IQ.)

One morning, in 2017, I was reviewing my latest writing projects, and reflecting upon my journey, in my Morning Pages.  This is what I wrote:

“Saturday 15^th July 2017 – Day 96 (of 84!)

“I have resumed my reading of The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron.

“I’ve been reading about mourning the ‘losses’ experienced by artists when their work is rejected by the world, or simply not recognized for what it is.

“This sense of loss, and hurt, has occurred to me with so many of my recent books:

• Supreme Self Confidence (2002) – Withdrawn for complete rewrite
• Overcoming Fear and Anxiety (2001) – Withdrawn for a complete rewrite
• Creating Joy – How to be happier right now! (2012) – Withdrawn for minor revisions
• Therapy after Ellis, Berne, Freud and the Buddha (2010) – Withdrawn, permanently. To be repackaged in different forms…
• Chill Out: How to Reduce and Control Your Stress Level, and to have a happier life (2011) – Still on sale…But in need of revisions…
• Integrating Cognitive and Emotive Counselling and Therapy (2011) – Withdrawn and re-planned in another form…
• A Wounded Psychotherapist: Albert Ellis’s Childhood, and the strengths and limitations of REBT/CBT (2013) – Withdrawn for rewriting…
• Holistic Counselling in Practice: An introduction to the theory and practice of Emotive-Cognitive Embodied-Narrative Therapy (2016/2019) – Still on sale…
• Narrative Therapy and the Writing Solution: The emotive-cognitive approach to feeling better. (2015). Withdrawn and incorporated into How to Write a New Life for Yourself… Now selling well!
• Facing and Defeating your Emotional Dragons: How to process and eliminate undigested pain from your past. (2015). Recently rewritten and republished; and still not selling well!
• Healing the Heart and Mind: Two examples of writing therapy stories, plus reflective analysis. (2015). Withdrawn for re-writing…
• Unfit for Therapeutic Purposes: The case against RE&CBT. (2017). Withdrawn, rewritten and reissued as A Major Critique of REBT…. This book now sells reasonably well!
• Metal Dog – Long Road Home: A mythical journey through the eye of a needle. (2017). This was my fictionalized autobiographical novel, or revised personal mythology, and the nearest thing I will ever produce to an official autobiography of the first forty years of my life. (Recently completely rewritten and republished here.***)

This book (…) has been produced in six different incarnations, each of which ‘fell stillborn from the presses!’ – to borrow an expression from David Hume, which he used to describe the fate of his first book of philosophy. And here it is again!

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This book is about one man’s journey away from his homeland and his emotionally barren family and priest-dominated culture, to a place where he might find love, acceptance and personal liberation.

Daniel’s heart-wrenching journey to freedom is like a detective novel, a psychological thriller, and a science fiction adventure, all rolled into one. He shows the reader how to heal their own psychological wounds from childhood, and especially from their relationship with an unskillful or damaged mother.

…For more information, and a substantial extract from the book, please click this link…

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“Never, ever, ever, ever, ever give up!” – Winston Churchill.

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Regarding the poor reception of virtually all of my published work, I, of course, felt rejected!  Dejected, at times!  Neglected, to a considerable degree!  Disappointed.  And stressed, because of the lack of payment for my hard work! But I have never been defeated.

“Fall down 12 times, get up 13!” – Ancient Chinese saying.

My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting in Hebden Bridge; or over Skype or the Telephone network; is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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Despite all my rejections, I bounced back each time.  I re-framed the rejection – and then digested it; completed it; burned it out!  And then I moved on, actually quite quickly and efficiently, to my next writing project.  Instead of asking “why me?”, I asked, “What next?” as advised by Julia Cameron.  But I was doing that long before I read her book of advice and creative recovery coaching. (My approach is this: “When the world says ‘No’, I say ‘next’!”

I have taught myself over the years to be a moderate Stoic; to be a creative producer; to be persistent; and to keep producing, no matter what the world may do in response to my productions.  I am a creative artist, a producer, and I believe that one day I will be ‘discovered’.

As long as I have lots of books to present to the world at that time, all will be well.  (Imagine how difficult it would be to do it the other way around: To wait for the world to discover me, and then to say, “I can assure you, I have a good number of books in me.  Just give me a little time to write them”.  I am not waiting.  I will be ready when the call comes!)

To see a list of my books which are currently available through Amazon, please go to Dr Jim’s books at Amazon.***

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The time to write is now!

Back to your writing ambitions, dear reader.  The only time we have is right now – this day, this hour.  If you are ever going to do it, then you have to do it now!

What are you waiting for?  The time will never be perfect!  And David B. Campbell has shown that there are at least 101 reasons you could list for waiting.  The first seven are as follows. Perhaps you are waiting for:

Inspiration; permission; reassurance; the coffee to be ready; your turn; someone to smooth the way; the rest of the rules for success…

The time for action has long passed.  Do it now!  Or drop it forever!

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Take action today

If you are a blocked creative writer, or if you are stuck with uncompleted grief or mourning about losses and rejections resulting from your ‘stillborn productions’, then I can help you to digest your problems and to move on, as I have done, many times!

Contact me today to set up an appointment, face to face in Hebden Bridge, or over the telephone, or via Skype or email.

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My fee for a one-hour tutorial meeting in Hebden Bridge; or over Skype or the Telephone network; is currently £180.00, which must be paid at least 72 hours before we are due to meet.  The procedure is this:

Please contact me using the telephone number below, or by email, to discuss setting up an appointment.  I will pencil you into my diary, and, when your fee arrives, I will ink that appointment in.  (I can send you a PayPal invoice, with a Pay button, via which you can use any credit or debit card, or a PayPal account. Or I can send you my bank account details, so you can make a direct internet banking transfer).

Call me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or on 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

Or email me at drjwbyrne@gmail.com

I look forward to working with you on your own creative or reflective writing project(s).

Best wishes,

Jim

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Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, and Writing Coach

drjwbyrne@gmail.com

Telephone: 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

or 44 1422 843 629 (from outside).

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Help with creative thinking – Advice about creative writing; technical writing; academic writing – Support and encouragement with creative thinking/feeling/perceiving – How to get over writer’s block – How to increase your creative output – How to keep writing when the going gets tough – How to use reflective writing to generate creative ideas; and how to write whatever you have to write! How to be an author in a world that keeps rejecting you – How to get from writer’s block to productive writing…

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