Curriculum
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- Module 1: The Apology Fingerprint (You Have One, and It Repeats)Week one is the diagnostic. Most writers think their apologies are case-by-case responses to the specific topic. They're not. They're a fingerprint — the same handful of phrases, the same hedge patter6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Specific Apology Fingerprint?5 Questions
- 1.3Meditation: Hearing Yourself Apologize (a Listening Audio)8
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Bio I Used for Eight Years That Was an Apology in 47 Words15
- 1.6Companion Blog: Your Author Bio Probably Has More Apologies Than Sentences10
- Module 2: Reflex vs. Genuine (Which Apologies Stay and Which Go)Week two we sort the apologies. Some of yours are appropriate — an actual correction, an acknowledgment of a real limitation, a real piece of context. Those stay. Most of yours are reflex — automatic6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: How Much of Your Apology Pattern Is Reflex vs. Genuine?4 Questions
- 2.3Meditation: The Three-Question Audio (Run It On Every Apology)3
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: Six Apologies I Cut From a Single Essay (and What the Essay Became After)15
- 2.6Companion Blog: The Three-Question Test for Whether That Apology in Your Draft Stays10
- Module 3: Authorial Stance (Standing In the Work Without Standing Over It)Week three is the harder mindset week. Cutting the apologies leaves a gap. Authorial stance is what fills it. Stance is not arrogance and not deference — it's the posture of a writer who knows where s6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Default Authorial Stance?4 Questions
- 3.3Meditation: The Stance Audio (Body-Based Practice)9
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Same Essay, Written Three Ways: A Stance Demonstration15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Three Postures for the Writing Desk (And Which One Is Yours)10
- Module 4: Authorial Stance in Branded / Client Work (When You're Writing FOR Someone)Week four is the cross-pollination week. Most apologetic writers write client work with more confidence than their own. The pattern reverses for brand storytellers, who often inherit a brand voice tha6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s the Gap Between Your Client Voice and Your Own?4 Questions
- 4.3Meditation: Borrowing Your Own Voice Back (the Cross-Pollination Audio)10
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Year I Ghostwrote Five Books and Couldn’t Finish My Own15
- 4.6Companion Blog: Why You Can Write Anyone’s Voice Confidently Except Your Own10
- Module 5: The Bio Rewrite (the Capstone Deliverable)Final week. The Bio Rewrite. You'll write your author bio in five different lengths — 5 words, 25 words, 50 words, 100 words, 250 words — without a single apology, hedge, or self-deprecating qualifier6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Bio Length Do You Need Most Right Now?4 Questions
- 5.3Meditation: Drafting the 5-Word Bio (an Honest 12-Minute Audio)12
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: The Five-Word Bio I Took Three Weeks To Write (And Have Used For Seven Years)15
- 5.6Companion Blog: How to Write a Five-Word Author Bio That Doesn’t Apologize for Existing10
INSPIRATION: The Five-Word Bio I Took Three Weeks To Write (And Have Used For Seven Years)
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