Join the VerbTribe

• You want to leave behind the stories of your life for your kids or grandkids.
• You want to finally finish that novel you’ve been working on for 9 years.
• You’re a poet who has lost her muse in the piles of laundry.
• You used to journal, but don’t any longer–and want to again.
• You want to write a book, get an agent, make millions, and have Sandra Bullock or Johnny Depp play you in the movie.

Up until now you have started and stopped dozens of times.  You’ve taken a tentative step forward, but shrunk away in a sea of self doubt or in the chaos of daily life.

You want to finally develop a consistent, sustainable, daily writing practice that feels great, helps you see life more clearly, forces you to pay attention in new ways — but you can’t.

Until now.

That’s what VerbTribe is for.  It’s for the writer who is committed to the task, but needs help and support to get there.

If you are committed to writing, let’s sit down and write together. Because a writer is the person who stays in the room, sits back down, and writes, no matter how fascinating the laundry just got.

My name is Patti Digh.  I’m a writer.

It’s taken me a very long time to own that, to say that.

Before I started this process, I didn’t even have a blog. Now I’ve been writing consistently at 37days for seven years and have written over 1,500 posts, 100+ published articles, and six books.

I’d like to share how I did that with you.

When you join the VerbTribe, you won’t be asked to lock yourself in your room and write for five hours a day, but it does involve a daily commitment to create.  I’ll be here to guide the way. All you need to do is write and trust that it adds up. It truly does. Threads show themselves when you make sure that inspiration strikes every morning at 9am or every evening at 9pm — your schedule, your way, but writing consistently is what members of the VerbTribe do.

We’re going to focus on process, not product. We’re going to focus on writing as a verb. The act of writing. The sitting down, the pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. Only then we can focus on form, content, voice. Each are vital. You can know everything there is to know about writing–but if you’re not cultivating a writing practice, it won’t help.

Together, we’ll dive into the art of writing. We’ll explore ways to stop making excuses and get writing. I’ll be your writing coach, mentor, and nudger.

We’re going to do this for 37 days at a time–because I believe you can change your life in 37 days. In fact, I know you can.

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“After only 8 days, I am remembering WHY I write and HOW I write. The daily work seems so simple and easy, yet it has taken me deep into places I had forgotten and am so glad to be rediscovering. This course is about so much more than just creating a regular writing practice. It is about connection and adventure and exploring our edges, using our words to find the way.” -Ruth Davis

“VerbTribe = 37 days toward building a sustainable writing practice. We’re on day 10. This has already been a game changer for me with most changes having nothing to do with writing. That Patti Digh lets people believe she’s all southern charmy and genteel but she’s an ass kicker of the highest caliber…” -Martha Atkins
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After 37 days in the VerbTribe you will have:

• A clear understanding of the patterns that have stopped you from writing in the past
• The capacity to write each and every day (intention) — regardless of what is going on in your daily life (circumstance)
• Tools to improve both your writing process and product
• A clear view of what you long to say in the world
• A community of peers to stay in touch with as support for each other
• A way into your unique voice

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“Never before have I been a part of such an expansive, creative, supportive community of writers all showing up to learn and grow as writers and to develop a daily practice of writing. My life is changing as a writer but also as a person. Patti’s course, her insights and gentle guidance have opened my heart to deeper, more truthful intentions for why I want to write in the first place and how I want to be in the world. Her daily prompts and task activities have taken me to levels I have never been before, and have afforded me the opportunity to both see what gets in the way and what can serve my writing better. Before my own eyes and by witness of my Tribe and Patti (and my witnessing of them, for this is a shared experience in VerbTribe) I am discovering where the heart of writing lives and breathes and I am bringing it to the page, without apology, as an offering to the sacred act of writing and to standing and living in the truth of our own voices. So naturally, I’m heading into her Master Class next! ” -Jenn Forgie
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What you get:

• My attention, encouragement, and expertise as the author of six books, including the bestsellers, Life is a Verb and Creative is a Verb.
• Provocative, imagination-busting daily writing prompts – every single day for the duration of the time you’re enrolled.
• A structure for writing–and accountability.
• Three 75-minute group workshop calls for writing workshop, reviews, and coaching on April 9, April 23, and May 7th at 4 pm ET / 3 pm CT / 2 pm MT / 1 pm PT
• Recordings of every call for you to listen to on your schedule.
• Members-only private online group for community support and further feedback from me for the duration of the class (37 days), plus two weeks.
• Special pricing on hourly individual coaching, products & classes. (Alumni of this course will receive a 25% discount on subsequent VerbTribe classes offered in 2012)

What I ask you to bring:

• Commitment to developing a sustainable writing practice.
• Commitment to doing the work.
• Commitment to reading the work of others and learning how to workshop them constructively.
• Commitment to your own voice.
• Commitment to showing up–fully.
• Commitment to never apologizing for your work–and never making excuses.

The class runs from April 4 – May 10, 2012.

Early-bird registration closes at 11pm ET on February 29, 2012. Regular registration closes at 9pm ET on April 1, 2012. Limited to 24 participants.

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“If you are looking to create a sustainable writing practice, looking for a writing group/tribe to support your practice then take a look at VerbTribe ~ I am in the midst of VerbTribe with Patti Digh and I am LOVING it ~ she is pushing boundaries, cracking open the dragons that keep me from the page, making me take a look beneath the layers and pushing me/us to ‘Sit down and write.’” -Carmen Taggart
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Two options are available, one on a more individualized basis. .

1. VerbTribe: $350 ($250 before Feb 29, 2012)

2. VerbTribe Intensive: $525 ($425 before Feb 29, 2012) – you receive everything in the VerbTribe offer, plus

• Two additional group workshop calls on April 16 and April 30 at 4pm ET/ 3pm CT / 2pm MT / 1pm PT in a small group of no more than 10
• Each person will have the opportunity to have one 10-page manuscript workshopped by me and the rest of the group each month
• We’ll rotate “workshopping” each other’s writing, so you’ll get the benefit of having other readers respond in a constructive, supportive, clear way to your writing. We’ll provide clear, constructive suggestions for improvement.
• Limited to 10 people in each 37 day session

Life is short. Write accordingly.