
Embrace Your Damn Self: Stop Writing Someone Else's Story
A Talk by Dani Abernathy (Book Coach and Enneagram Teacher)
About this Talk
Sick of cramming your wonderfully weird story into someone else's too small and oh-so-itchy formula? Of course you are.
Here's the truth: You are your story's secret weapon. Not the plot structure you Googled at 2am or the rules some dead white guy made up.
In this workshop, you'll learn the Story Tree Process—where your authentic self is the root system everything else grows from. We'll dig into how your values, experiences, and truth create stories that matter, identify the true impact you want to have, and help you own what you actually love in books, not what you want others to think you love.
You'll walk away knowing your story's core message and how to write as yourself instead of cosplaying as someone else's idea of a Real Writer.
This isn't about following formulas—it's about claiming your voice as creative liberation. Because when you stop trying to fit the status quo, your stories become powerful enough to change the world, one reader at a time.