You sit at your computer 18 hours a day. Your family and friends gave up on you long ago. Your fingernails grow long like Howard Hughes'.

You are writing a book.

Writing is a profoundly personal act. It is isolating and thrilling, tedious and mesmerizing. Success lies in identifying what works for you ... and owning it. Once you know how to ride your strengths and harness your weaknesses, writing becomes organic and rewarding.

Barncat is dedicated to helping writers find their own true voice and move past the emotional, practical and creative hurdles that keep them from telling their stories and getting published.

Jami and Barncat featured on the cover of recent Crain's New York

With online, self-guided workshops; multi-media tutorials and instructional downloads; coaching and book-doctoring packages; the "Master Class with Jami Bernard" series of course books; and equal parts humor and tough love, Barncat can take you from the glimmer of an idea to finishing your manuscript, pitching an agent, getting published and marketing your book. We'll even help you prepare for the book tour!

Barncat has worked with first-time writers who landed top agents within a year. We work with journalists switching to long-form writing, literary writers who want to sell without selling out, public speakers who need a back-of-the-room book, business writers who want to extend their brand.

The process of writing is unique to each individual—and so are the breakdowns in that process. There is no One Size Fits All solution when you have a brilliant idea but nothing on paper, or a book that is forever thisclose to being finished, or a problem with structure that is maddeningly elusive.

Does this sound familiar? You've taken classes. You know the basics. But you can't seem to finish. Your manuscript isn't polished. The "voice" isn't quite right. And you'll do anything to avoid sitting at the computer and facing all that frustration again.

Maybe you just need more sleep. The body's circadian rhythms have a lot to say about whether the Muse is holding office hours today!

Or maybe you need a fresh eye on your work. Living in close quarters with your manuscript gives you an immunity to its flaws; even copyeditors often miss their own mistakes.

But it's rarely that simple, you hothouse flower, you!

Writers need structure, guidance and personal attention to keep their creativity flourishing and their deadlines under control.

Writing is a way of life. It can be utterly rewarding. And it can lead to the best lifestyle in the universe, the noblest state to which a human being can aspire:

The ability to work from home in bunny slippers.

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