Before the First Word

There is a conversation happening in the writing world that almost no one is having. We talk endlessly about craft, structure, voice, pacing and first chapters. What we rarely talk about is the energy behind the book.

At Somatic Author, we understand that how you prepare to write is as important as how you write. This sacred, unseen work can help create an architecture beneath your book that readers feel even if they cannot name it. It is what gives certain books their heart, their staying power and their capacity to change the reader’s life, sometimes forever.

Before you open a new document, map your table of contents, or revisit work you have already done, we invite you into two of Somatic Author’s foundational practices. They will not take long. But they have the possibility of changing everything.