Structuring the Soul of Writing

• Do you have journals full of writing, but don’t know what to do next?
• Do you long to share your voice with the world, but know that your current words are a tangle?
• Do you want to offer your work for publication – whether that be articles for magazines or blogs, creative anthologies or a book?
• Have you started writing a book with great gusto and then gotten stuck?
• Do you want to learn how to edit your own work in order to self-publish?
• Are you scared of the editing process, easily overwhelmed or find it boring?
• Are you creative, intuitive, neurodivergent or “right-brained”?

Then Structuring the Soul of Writing was written for you.

This indispensable guide to intuitive editing and creative structuring offers a unique combination of practical, technical and soulful ways of crafting your words.

From multiple Nautilus award-winning author (Burning Woman, Medicine Woman, Creatrix) and founder of Womancraft Publishing, Lucy H. Pearce.

It is packed full of practical writing and editing tips and techniques that she uses in her daily working life as the author of more than a dozen books and professional editor of over twenty years.

Learn:

• What creative editing is and why it matters.
• How and why this approach works especially well for neurodiverse writers.
• How to structure your own writing creatively.
• Connecting to your reader.
• Create rhythm and tempo in your work.

The tools and insight you provided on writing & editing have already been extremely helpful. It’s giving me the courage to keep putting one foot in front of the other in writing a first time book that hasn’t let my heart go since it planted itself inside me over 2 years ago. I truly appreciate how you wove magic and creativity into the process of writing and editing.
Ravina, 2022 Structuring the Soul of Writing course student

Structuring the Soul of Writing was something I created a couple of years ago and couldn’t decide if it should be a book…or an online course. So I wrote it as a book. And then I taught it. It was extremely well-received. And then the manuscript sat on my computer.

Because I have such a large rota of online courses, and more emerging all the time, I wanted to make sure that this material was out in the world, for those who need it, rather than sitting on my hard drive!

It’s about the thing I spend most of my waking hours doing – editing.

The thing that my authors value me most for.

The thing that most writers long to know how to do.

Lucy Pearce I just really want to say thank you, I have just completed week 2 and it was BRILLIANT, I cannot wait to start reading week 3… off to weed the garden before I weed my words… This course is rocking, brilliant and fab!
ChaNan, 2022 Structuring the Soul of Writing course student

I spent the last year expanding the material. The book includes:

• Reflections on creating with soul in the age of AI.
• Lots on writing and editing for neurodivergent folk.
• Archetypal editing – what it is and why it works.

It’s packed full of:

• Reflections on the editing and writing process from my two decades of experience.
• Lots of exercises.
• Step by step guidance.
• Workshops where I show you how I draft my own writing.
• Professional tips.

I also had great fun creating the cover art. A beautiful and vibrant patchwork of my alcohol ink art and words, it visually references my previous book covers – She of the Sea and Creatrix – which are referenced in the book, as I explore the creative process behind editing them.

The book is about the art and craft of creative editing and it being a deeply creative process, rather than a logical or intellectual process as we are taught it in school. Its intended readership is creative people who have struggled to edit their writing. I share my approach to shaping words as something soulful and creative.

Thank you so much for an excellent course, I found everything flowed perfectly.
Hollie, 2022 Structuring the Soul of Writing course student