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If you appreciate Memoir, want to boost your storytelling powers, or need to develop healthier writing habits, you are home.

Welcome to the Bite-Sized Storytelling Boost, home of the Notes2Post System for Storytelling (N2P) and the Writers Inspired by the Arts Community (WIA).

This quick guide provides an overview of all that the Bite-Sized Storytelling Boost offers you on Substack as well as courses, workshops, and coaching.

Mission Statement

The Bite-Sized Storytelling Boost provides stories and services to the writing community, promoting healthier writing habits and quality storytelling.

I help writers finally publish consistently with Notes2Post. I’m building community with the Writers Inspired by the Arts community.

Storytelling resources

Writers Inspired by the Arts is a virtual writing community that launches on January 8, 2026. Members of this select community will:

• Meet every two weeks via Zoom to work on individual projects in communion with others

• Interact with guest speakers who will share what inspires them in their writing

• Receive regular tips on how to boost your storytelling using photos, paintings, music, and other art forms

Notes2Post is the system I designed to help writers organize, plan, and improve the quality of their weekly writing projects.

This is a three-step, image-based system that helps writers develop healthier storytelling habits and focus on a single theme for the week.

You can learn more about Notes2Post by subscribing and reading the weekly stories and tips I share.

In addition, I offer the following resources:

• The Notes2Post Course: a 4-week, cohort-based, virtual course that includes instruction in how to set up and use the system, application activities, and weekly discussions with your peers.

• The Memory Vault Workshop: a 90-minute workshop in how to use your Memory Vault image library to plan, draft, and write Bite-Sized stories of under 300 words.

• Coaching for Storytellers: 3 levels of individual coaching based on your goals and opportunities for writing more efficiently and effectively.

• Writing Toolkit Boosters: One-page worksheets and checklists

The stories I share

My primary genres are memoir and narrative nonfiction essays, both of which I create using the Notes2Post framework.

I’ve also started reviving a once-abandoned novel, which I release in Bite-Sized pieces of under 100 words per post.

What you can expect as a free subscriber

• A weekly newsletter featuring Note2Post tips on how to boost your storytelling power through improved planning, organizing, and better focus on a single theme.

• Daily short-form story samples and writing tips (delivered as Notes)

• Monthly featured stories: memoir or narrative essays

• Substack Live events

Additional benefits for paid subscribers

In addition to the above, paid subscribers receive the following:

• Access to the Writers Inspired by the Arts community at no additional charge

• Discounts on courses, workshops, and coaching efforts

• Recordings of all Substack Live events

• Specialized weekly chat with more intensive writing support

About me

I taught at Columbia University for 15 years before serving as a subject matter expert for one of the first online courses in business writing for non-native speakers of English.

Within a few months of starting that project, the company designing and producing those courses, Cognitive Arts, offered me a job, and I pivoted into the digital learning space.

I soon became familiar with the vicissitudes of the start-up lifestyle.

After two other full-time jobs came and went, where I parlayed both my teaching skills and writing talents into newer and expanded roles, I landed a contract with one of the learning divisions at McKinsey and Company.

After my contract with McKinsey ended, I came to realize that the time had come for me to focus on working for myself. And for you.

Since coming to Substack, I have overcome some start-up challenges of my own. I turned these potential roadblocks into an opportunity by developing the N2P system to promote healthier writing habits and better quality storytelling.

I invite you to engage fully with others in our community who are achieving the same goals.

This Substack offering is the culmination of several careers across my professional lifetime, and I’m so excited to share it with you all!

How to make the most of The Bite-Sized Storytelling Boost

• Subscribe: Start with a free subscription if you want to get to know me and what I offer.

• Engage with me via Notes. A conversation there can lead to us learning from one another.

• Treat yourself to a paid subscription to get the full benefit of my writing resources.

• Download the resources you need to boost your storytelling powers: toolkits, worksheets, and more.

• Join Writers Inspired by the Arts and learn about how other art forms can play a role in your writing routine. Write in community with others.

I’m happy to answer any questions you have about The Bite-Sized Storytelling Boost and how I can help you develop healthier writing habits!