Your Writing Champion
Do you feel a constant worry-feeling or discouragement about your writing or project?
Or simply: you just can't get to it?
Good god, this mental dance can feel so disheartening,
I know. I have wrestled with it so very much, as well.
This dispirited feeling can suck the life out of a person.
But there's a way OUT of your morass of bummerness,
in the form of this reminder of the truth:
YOU ARE IN PROCESS. THIS IS YOUR POWER.
NO MORE "WONDERING IF YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES."
Wondering and worrying are soul-sucking thought patterns
that need REDIRECTION.
And I healthy dose of love and excitement.
PROCESS IS THE WHOLE THING. IT'S EVERYTHING.
EMBRACE WHERE YOU'RE AT.
SHOUT IT LOUD AND PROUD.
YOUR VULNERABLE PROCESS IS YOUR POWER.
DON'T LET "NOT READY" HOLD YOU BACK.
Where I come in: I remind you of your power. Then I harass you weekly. We touch base whenever you need.
And I get you back to your writing.
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Feeling "unready" or "not good enough yet" is literally IRRELEVANT to your process. The entire UNFOLDING of what you're making is mystical by design. Accept this. EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR WRITING IS SACRED. ALLOW your work to feel incomplete and cringey. Laugh at your humanity. And KEEP WRITING. Make your hands type DAILY. Every second of your MAKING is leading you toward the great thing you're COMPLETING. This all feels vulnerable, HELL YES. EMBRACE and SHARE your authentic, vulnerable process, as you bring your work to life! By COMMITTING to your valiant, brave process - and SPITTING IN THE FACE OF THE WORRY, you will reach your writing goal.
Get your work to your readers, audiences, and clients.
Contact me for championing.
We all thrive with goal dates and a whip-cracker.
Let's get your project finished and into the world.
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1:1 Zoom with Tara Samuel to set writing goals
+ 30 Days of Fierce Tara-Haranging,
to joyously GET'ER DONE.
“After finishing my third novel, I fell into a writing rut that felt impossible to climb out of. Tara stepped in as my writing coach and offered me the perfect combination of guidance, encouragement, and structure. She had me set measurable goals and held me accountable to them, while also encouraging me to rediscover my creative self by writing freely and openly, without some end project in sight. In time, the early seeds of my fourth novel emerged, and it went on to become a #1 bestseller. Who could ask for anything more? Tara is a true writing champion, and your creative self deserves to work with her.”
-AMY STUART, #1 bestselling author of Still Water, Still Mine, Still Here, A Death At The Party, and new bestseller Home and Away By Mats Sundin, with Amy Stuart
“Hiring Tara Samuel as a writing coach was the smartest move I made to reignite the artist in me. Tara’s generosity, passion, and thoughtful feedback have provided me with wings to fly creatively. Not only has Tara refueled my motivation to express myself as an artist, but she has also inspired me to keep writing and get my projects to the finish line. My creative self has been brought back to life thanks to Tara’s skillful support and brilliant insights.”
- ELISA SCHWARZ (She/her/elle), iLEAD Bilingual Learning Facilitator
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I am excited to work with you and
CRACK OPEN YOUR APPROACH.
Together let's zero in on your unique, central story engine,
and assign you tasks and goals.
Together, will ensure you complete your project,
with maximum impact.
- T.S.
My work with you, in a nutshell:
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WE GET YOU OUT OF WORRY.
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WE GET YOU MAKING.
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WE GET YOU ACHEIVING FORWARD MOTION, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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Get in touch with me via email:
tara@yourwritingchampion.com
or DM me in IG: @yourwritingchampion
Or schedule me here:
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Throughout our time together, you will feel the shift of your work into its most impactful version yet.
I'm passionate about helping artists, writers, and leaders realize their fullest most powerful and impactful potential.
LET'S GET YOUR WORK AND YOUR VISION IN FRONT OF LISTENERS, READERS, CLIENTS AND AUDIENCES.
T.S.
1-Hour Zoom:
Insight, Clarifying of Vision, Task Creation
+ 30 Days of Support
$1799
This package includes:
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Initial Tara-Questions. Within 48 hours of booking your ZOOM WITH ME, I will send you some questions! I want to know exactly why you are LIT UP ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE MAKING.
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Your Action Plan
My intention with these questions is to inspire you, as you prepare for your Zoom with me. Leading up to our Zoom together, allow yourself to play, as you write down ideas and images that excite you and articulate your desired impact on readers and clients. Feel into the greatest possible outcome for your work, writing or project. “Color outside of the lines” in your thinking. Keep allowing yourself to think bigger than ever before. -
1-hour Zoom Session. Together, you and I will define your project's central message, theme, and story. I will then create detailed goals and action steps tailored to your unique process. Within 24 hours of your Zoom, my team and I will email your Zoom recording to you for review and empowering encouragement, whenever you crave it.
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30 Days of Accountability & Support. Following our Zoom, you will receive energized, supportive, galvanizing weekly emails from me, with reminders of your Goal-Specific Weekly Tasks. Also throughout these 30 days of our work together, you are invited to correspond with me via email, for ongoing feedback and guidance.
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Optional 30-minute follow-up call. After successfully completing all assigned tasks during our 30 days together, we will review your progress and celebrate your achievements! Your 30-day goals met, it will feel great to hop on a 30-minute follow-up phone or Zoom call with you, to suggest next steps for you and your project or business. Initial assigned-tasks must be completed within 30 days of initial calendly booking, as a prerequisite to this second, optional 30-minute Zoom or phone call together.
During our 30 days together, here's what you'll gain:
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Clarity, Focus and Power: Your project or business will now have a far greater impact. Your work, words, and message will resonate in ways that draw audiences and clients more swiftly to you. Most importantly, your overall work process will be forever enriched, more detailed, more thoughtful, and more specific. Any project you create forever after will benefit from your new understanding of specificity and your new, ongoing integration of your unique, authentic vulnerability and power.
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Empowerment, Stamina & Accountability: Throughout our work together, you will hone your own approach to story-development and communication. You will also fine-tune and enhance your work rhythm. Furthermore, because you will learn the feeling of “true authenticity”, you will now feel more deeply, genuinely excited and motivated in all of your projects. Your own personal “story engine” is the greatest and most powerful source of fuel, motivation, and stamina that there is. Operating from your most “authentic core” sustains you more powerfully than any other external, quick-fix “motivator”.
Sidebar: for 30 days you will be so very personally supported by me –which is just straight-up fun.
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Maximum Impact: Refine your creative approach and maximize your project's potential.
This package is perfect for:
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Artists
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Authors
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Screenwriters
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Leaders and Speakers
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Business owners developing brand strategies
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Engaging the raw, vulnerable heart at the center of your vision is what will make your work resonate universally with your readers, your team, your clients.
And increase the power of your words exponentially.
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How to Reserve:
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Click "Tara 1:1" rectangle below, to reserve your spot.
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Select a time that works for you on my calendar.
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Check out directly in Calendly
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Looking forward to hearing about your vision! So exciting, the next steps you are about to take.
T.S.
About
I am fiercely passionate about making your work soar.
In my heart, I am "a barn-raiser". I get LIT by collaborating with others, and elevating people and projects to their highest heights.
My entire life, I have been barn-raising. I wrote and produced plays as a kid. Then as an adult. Parallel-ongoing-thriving as an actor in Toronto, then in San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles. Busted into screenplay writing, film producing, script consulting. Founded an international film collective based in L.A, lept into tv series development, production and sales, while also teaching film acting as a Professor at renowned George Brown Theatre School and School of Media and Performing Arts, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
I HEART guiding artists and frontier-thinkers.
I now have an immensely diverse background in film and television encompassing acting, writing, directing, and producing. My career has spanned numerous genres and platforms, collaborating with both established and emerging talent. I'm an award winning actor and award-nominated, competition-placing screenwriter, and have had the privilege of working with Oscar winners, Emmy winners, and many award-winning filmmakers.
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My love of mentorship and helping artists tell their stories also led me to found "Your Writing Champion," a platform dedicated to supporting writers on their journey. I meet with writers every week, to talk "shop", vent, and celebrate writing goals set, and MET.
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Like you, I am continually striving to push my creative boundaries.
Such an exciting process.
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Proud career highlights:
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-Founder, www.WeMakeMovies.org, international producing-collective of filmmakers.
-Founder, "www.YourWritingChampion.com," international platform dedicated to supporting writers.
-Professor, Film Acting, George Brown Theatre School and School of Media and Performing Arts
-Guest Professor, Acting for Directors and Producers, University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
-Published in MovieMaker magazine online
- New York Semifinalist, Meryl Streep’s The Writers Lab, Half-hour comedy pilot, created and written by Tara Samuel
-Winner, Best Lead Actor, Manhattan Film Festival, “Ruby” in Ruby Booby, producer Tara Samuel, award-winning writer-director Jon Rannells
-Nomination, Best Lead Actor in a series, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, “Vangeline” in The Neddeaus of Duqesne Island, award-winning writer-producer Aaron Schroeder, award-winning director Sam Zvibleman (Pen15)
-Nomination, Best Short Film, Oscar-qualifying Austin Film Festival, FIND, writer-director-producer Tara Samuel
-Official Selection, Ohio State University Film Studies’ Journal of Short Film, Volume 21, FIND, writer-director-producer Tara Samuel
-“Rose”, award-winning feature film Wild Prairie Rose, opposite Oscar Award Winner Troy Kotsur, award-winning writer Sharon Greene, award-winning director Deborah LaVine
-“Jill”, award-winning feature film Polarized, award-winning writer-director Shamim Sarif, award-winning producer Hanan Kattan;
-“Diane Schnitzler”, Painkiller, opposite Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba.
-“Saille”, award-winning feature documentary The Magnitude of All Things, award-winning writer-director-producer Jennifer Abbott (The Corporation)
-“Julie”, The Rwanda Blend, producer Tara Samuel; award-winning writer-director Sam Zvibleman (Pen15)
-“Nina”, “Singled Out” pilot, opposite Mackenzie Astin (The Facts of Life & Iron Will) producers Tara Samuel, Chad Anderson, Andrew Pinon; award-winning writer-director Andrew Pinon
-“Tara Williams”, series regular, “Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye”, 3 Seasons, 57 episodes. Creators Dave Johnson and Gary Johnson, producer Marilyn Stonehouse, opposite award-winning actors Deanne Bray, Troy Kotsur, Enuka Okuma, Ted Atherton, Rick Peters, Marc Gomes and Yannick Bisson
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I want to meet you!
I love this work.
Your unique, authentic story is your superpower.
Integrating this “voice” in your work, will make your delivery magnetic.
It will make your success inevitable.
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Let's work together, to elevate your project to its mightiest level of impact and lift-off.
Plus the whole dang journey of this process is so very fun.
T.S.​