Mining – A Creative Inspiration Session

Mining – A Creative Inspiration Session

A two-hour interactive workshop covering four exercises (hand-selected from the library of activities I've designed over 20 years of teaching this craft)  to help reconnect you to the gold of your creative process. After our 120 minutes of creative play together, you’ll emerge from the dark paralysis of doubt into the light of writing with sparkle.

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
– William Faulkner

Get back to the gold.

You started writing to spark empathy, shift consciousness, and remind others what it means to be fully human in a world that often feels disconnected. Or maybe you want to write this way but aren’t sure how to begin.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, uncertain about your next steps, or paralyzed by self-doubt, you’re not alone. 

In this two-hour workshop, we’ll move through four immersive writing exercises chosen for you from my personal library of creative activities, all designed to:

  • Turn doubt into discernment.
  • Shift stress into stillness.
  • Transform pressure into possibility.
  • Return you to a place of discovery and play.

This is where the gold lies—in the creative process itself.

What You’ll Gain

  • A deeper relationship with your unique creative process.
  • Insight to illuminate the gems lodged in the creativity you want to mine.
  • The glitter you need to keep yourself going through dark passages.
  • New raw material that lights you up. (Either to continue with after our session or weave into what you're already working.)
At the time of scheduling, you'll also complete an intentional questionnaire designed to help me understand your current challenges, goals, desires, and questions for your story. This ensures exercises will be the most helpful and inspiring. Together we'll go through four creative writing exercises designed to re-ignite your sense of discovery, inspiration, and play. Within 24 hours of our session, you'll receive a PDF of any activities we did together on-screen, and reminders of the exercises we worked.

Everything you generate during the workshop is yours to keep!

Who It’s For

  • Writers feeling creatively blocked with their short story, play, novel, or film.
  • Authors in the messy middle of a manuscript.
  • New writers dedicated to unlocking their authentic voice.
  • Experienced writers yearning for a fresh perspective.

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Cost: $625.00

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Testimonials

Maria Hebert-Leiter 

"Terra Elan McVoy is a master of asking the right questions to prompt writers to dig deeper. She inspired me to create characters that live beyond the page. For example, to better understand their motivations, she offered fabulous exercises that put me firmly in their world. She also prompted me to use more descriptive language to make the setting come to life. The end result for me is a more visual story readers can sink into and characters with whom the reader can relate. After a few days working with Terra... my confidence in my writing and my ability to improve it grew exponentially."

“Let go of everything when you write, and try it at a simple beginning with simple words to express what you have inside. It won’t begin smoothly. Allow yourself to be awkward... You are exposing your life, not how your ego would like to see you represented, but how you are as a human being... It splits you open and softens your heart toward the homely world.”
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones