Write while the heat is in you.
Henry David Thoreau
Creative Coaching
When you focus your creative vision and process through writing mentoring, you’ll complete your writing project by building productive and resilient habits, and achieving greater clarity for marketing and publication. Storyweaving coaching offers a partnership with your goals and unique gifts at its heart.
Are you ready to commit to your writing?
Are you looking for support for your creative projects, to complete a book, bring your writing to the next level, or recharge your writing practice? Why not connect with someone to walk the path with you for a while, keeping you on the right road towards your creative goals?
Breakthrough Strategies
Storyweaving coaching techniques are breakthrough techniques. We’ll play with character, style, language, and structure on a deep level, and support your regular writing practice with experiments to guide you to your perfect process. You’ll move into the flow of your work, overcome writer’s block, energize your writing process, finish your book, and have the confidence to move your writing into the world.
Get unstuck
Creative coaching helps you “unstick” your creative story and opens a space for increased creativity in your life as a whole! Because my mentoring is based in life coaching training as well as experience as a writer and writing teacher, I take a holistic approach that one client called, “a one-on-one MFA experience!”
I occasionally accept special clients looking for creative life coaching as they move through life transitions or search for paths more aligned with their purpose, passions, and dream projects.
Are you hungry for creative community?
When Covid 19 isolated so many of us, I started a regular Creative Gathering on Zoom to support creatives of all kinds. Now that we can meet in person, I’ve started a creatives support group in my retreat center in Maryland (20 minutes from Capitol Hill near National Harbor). We’ll meet once a month, share our projects and build creative community. Contact me to sign up and find out more!
Note: This is not a therapeutic group! We may talk about our challenges, but our focus is on expanding our creative work. In the process, all participants agree to keep conversations confidential, respect each others’ unique perspectives, work, and beliefs, and together commit to building a positive community. My facilitation is mainly designed to keep the conversation flowing! Deeper support is available through online and in-person workshops, and one-on-one coaching.
Do you need help publishing?
Storyweaving Press offers basic support for Storyweaving clients, from ISBN numbers for your paperback and e-books to editing services that help you create a solid cover, polished writing, and publication and distribution you control through Ingram Spark. Get the benefit of small press backup without paying inflated vanity press prices! We offer affordable self-publishing support with integrity and excellence to make your self-publishing process easier.
Contact Carol Burbank now to find out how Storyweaving Press can help you take the next step in self-publishing. (Discounts on services available for regular Storyweaving clients.)
Let’s Connect
Schedule your free 30-minute conversation and find out how Storyweaving Coaching can help you reach your creative goals!
If you don’t find a time that works for you, please contact me directly.
Other Services Available
Manuscript Evaluation
A thorough, practical, detailed, and professional evaluation of your manuscript (a 4-8 page response letter), with recommendations for revision, publication and other developmental steps. All genres welcome, but particularly non-fiction, fiction, poetry, theatre/screenwriting, and experimental work.
Editing
I specialize in line editing and deep editing support for my clients, and offer referrals to vetted copyeditors for final preparation of manuscripts. I also offer editing and evaluation to support professional and effective queries, bios, summaries and book proposals.
Intensives
Every writer needs a peaceful place to hunker down and work. The Storyweaving Retreat Center offers a comfortable bedroom, a quiet office and a massage room in a separate suite where creatives can finish a project, recharge their batteries, and get to the heart of their writing. (Other seekers welcome!). Coaching and bodywork services available. Average retreat length, 3-7 days.
Referrals to designers are also available for authors interested in self-publishing.
“Marcel Proust once said, “let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” That’s Carol Burbank of Storyweaving! Carol is my editor and coach and we spent countless hours while she coached me through the writing process. Carol knows every twist and turn in the story, and she always came up with the right touch, helping me to make this a better book and giving me the space to tell it exactly my way.”
— Sandra Dearden
Featured Client Publications
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On The Corner: A Novel of Lifelong Friendship, by S.J. Tagliareni
Jan Thorpe's first psychological thriller
Jan Thorpe's second psychological thriller, 2023
AnnaMariah Nau's young adult fantasy novel published in 2021
After Alice: Building a Foundation to Protect the Land, by Kay Gardner Powell
Transforming a Life: A Memoir, by Joan Nelson Pierotti
Kathleen Knight's memoir about her life's work rescuing birds
Jean Wright's guidebook for authentic selling strategies
Expect the Miraculous: A True Story of the Extraordinary Power of God, by Carol Romeo
Article: Walking with Gaspar: Days in Guatemala, by Gretchen Brown Wright
Sandra McKay's 2022 fictional historical biography of her grandmother Dora, survivor of the Orphan Train
Val Gale's First Novel, published 2023
Lisa Thorne's photography and writing about nature, published 2023
Richard Ploetz, Wind Harp at RF ARC HIVE 2024
Get in touch.
Let me know something about your goals and questions, and we’ll schedule a time to get to know each other and see how Storyweaving can help you or your teams work smarter (not harder!) and more creatively.
I look forward to meeting you.