For the woman who's been “meaning to write that book” for years...

Sit Down at the Blank Page Knowing Exactly What to Write, Even on the Days You Wake Up Empty

13 small Magnetic Tasks from a bestselling ghostwriter who writes 2,500 words before sunrise, so the ordinary stories you've lived finally land on the page. 11 minutes at a time, $9.

“Reading Jill's examples really inspired me to pick up my pen and write. I have ten pages already and I just got the book yesterday.”
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So, yes. I was lying on the floor of a Miami mall.

A Monday. Cold tiles. Right outside the Apple Store.

Twenty minutes in, a security guard stood over me.

“Ma'am, are you unwell?”

I wasn't. So I asked him a question instead.

“What would you rather be doing?”

I expected a ball game. Feet up.

He said one word.

“Write.”

Then this big, intimidating man... blushed.

“I've dabbled. A page here and there. But nothing significant.”

Crime dramas, it turned out.

Cop by night. Security by day. Eighteen-hour shifts.

He thought there was nothing in his life worth a page.

I could hear the stories in every word he said.

Today, Ben is the published author of three books.

He didn't need a writing class.

He needed someone to show him the stories were already there.

If a security guard who thought his life was “nothing significant” had three books' worth of stories in it...

imagine what's in yours.

You have stories too.

You just think your life is too ordinary to write about.

So you sit at the blank page and wait for something big enough.

It never comes. Not because your life is empty.

Because nobody ever showed you where the stories hide.

I call it The Boring Life Myth.

And it's the reason that “Book” file on your laptop is still empty.

The Magnetic Storytelling Method

The Magnetic Storytelling Method on a tablet and as a printed book, with a purple pen and coffee
  • 114 pages, in your inbox in a minute
  • 11 chapters and 13 Magnetic Tasks, most of them eleven minutes on the clock
  • Written by a working, publishing author, not someone who read about writing
  • Start tonight, with your coffee or your glass of wine

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The 72-Hour First Story Guarantee. Do your first Magnetic Task tonight. If you don't have a story of your own on the page within 72 hours, email me at jill@thejoyfulwriter.com and I'll send back every cent.

100+published books
25+years writing
2,500words before sunrise
13Magnetic Tasks

Why you freeze at the blank page

Every book you've loved, every film, every feed you scroll at night shows you the big lives.

The affair. The war. The year in Tuscany.

So your Tuesday looks like nothing next to it.

Then the writing advice says “write what you know.”

And never once shows you how to see what you know.

So you're left with no material. Just a blinking cursor and a quiet voice that says, who would want to read about my life?

That voice is wrong.

Quiet people notice everything. The pause before an answer. The hand that stops on a coffee cup. The five words a stranger says when they think nobody's listening.

You've been collecting stories your whole life.

Nobody told you that's what they were.

“You don't have nothing to write about. You have decades of story seeds nobody told you were stories.”

Here's something I wrote in 11 minutes

“Eggs, milk, cheese. That's what he said was needed and so here I find myself shivering before the eggs thinking white or brown? Organic or less costly?”

“My feet move past temptation. No, damn it. You came in for eggs, milk, cheese. Now go.”

From The Magnetic Storytelling Method

That came from a shopping list.

Three items.

That's a story seed. A small, ordinary moment with a whole story folded up inside it.

Your week is full of them. A line you overheard at the pharmacy. The note on your fridge. The way your sister answers the phone.

Story Seeds is how I see them. And once you see them, you can't stop.

The Magnetic Storytelling Method shows you where they hide, and what to do with one when you find it.

Along the way you'll find Magnetic Tasks. Thirteen of them. Most are eleven minutes on the clock. Real enough that you finish with words on the page.

Not homework. Not prompts that feel like school.

Just you, a seed, and a pen.

“The fact that Jill took a shopping list with three items and turned it into a story that was so magnetic, character specific, and alive. Amazing. Inspiring. I'm writing my shopping list story now. Eggs, milk and cheese.”
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The old way

  • Wait for the big idea
  • Buy another craft book with 17 lessons
  • Stare at the cursor
  • Decide your life is too dull to write about
  • Close the laptop. Another year.

The Story Seeds way

  • Catch one seed today: a line, a list, a moment
  • Write it for 11 minutes tomorrow
  • Find the next one in your own week
  • Three small stories by Friday
  • Words on the page that sound like you

Hi, I'm Jill.

Picture a shelf of more than 100 books.

I wrote every one of them.

My name isn't on a single cover.

For more than twenty years I wrote under pen names. I ghostwrote for red-carpet clients whose names you'd know, while my own stories waited in the wings.

I didn't read until I was nine. I still can't tell you what a predicate does. I got enough rejection letters to wallpaper my bathroom.

And every morning, before first light, I wrote 2,500 words anyway.

Here's what all those mornings taught me.

The best stories never came from the big moments.

They came from a shopping list. Five words I overheard from a stranger. A Tuesday.

The stories were never missing. I just had to learn where to look.

I don't teach grammar. I don't own a red pen.

I show you how I see. And your writing gets better the way mine did. By reading, then writing.

The cover of The Magnetic Storytelling Method by Jill R. Stevens, The JOYful Writer

What readers say

“I just meant to read the first chapter, but by the time I realized my coffee was cold, I'd read half the book.”
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“I started reading [this book] yesterday on my flight home. Just WOW! I'm blown away.”
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“This book was like having Jill in my living room. Like she was speaking to me and really seeing me. And my heart.”
Monica · reader
“Reading Jill's examples really inspired me to pick up my pen and write. I have ten pages already and I just got the book yesterday.”
Rob · reader
“I'm writing my shopping list story now. Eggs, milk and cheese.”
Dotty · reader

Readers of The Magnetic Storytelling Method, in their own words.

Inside your 114 pages

The Magnetic Storytelling Method on a tablet and in print
The 11 chapters
  1. It All Starts With Why?
  2. Ritual to Habitual
  3. Story-Seeds Care
  4. Character
  5. Setting the Emotional Tone
  6. Show Me, Don't Tell Me
  7. Eavesdropping Fun
  8. The Story Buy-In
  9. Force and Flow
  10. Self-Editing Fun
  11. Write, Writer, write. Always.
  • Why you always have something to write, even on the days you wake up completely empty, and the eleven minutes that prove it
  • How to turn a stranger's overheard words into a character people remember, and why the best story I ever started came from five words I was never supposed to hear
  • How to write a first line that stops a reader cold, plus the slightly absurd query letter that got me a book deal anyway
  • Why your ordinary stories are your most magnetic material, the ones you'd never think to call interesting
  • The one thing that separates writers who finish from writers who don't, and it has nothing to do with talent, time or inspiration
  • 13 Magnetic Tasks across 11 chapters, so you write while you read
  • Instant access. The book arrives in your inbox a minute after you order.

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This is for you if...

  • You've been meaning to write that book for longer than you care to admit.
  • You haven't written since school, and you're not sure you still can.
  • You write already, and you want more of yourself on the page.
  • You're done waiting until you feel ready.

It's not for you if you want grammar rules and a red pen, or a formula for a book deal.

Questions

I'm not a writer. Is this for me?

Yes. If you tell stories over coffee, you're a storyteller already. This book helps you get them on the page.

Is this a writing manual?

No. There are no grammar lessons and no rules to get wrong. You read how a working author sees a story, then you do one small task.

How long does it take?

Most Magnetic Tasks are eleven minutes on the clock. Read a chapter a day, or the whole book in a weekend. Rhonda read half of it before her coffee went cold.

How do I get it?

It's a 114-page PDF. It arrives in your inbox a minute after you order, and you can download it from the thank-you page.

What if my life really is boring?

It isn't. That's the whole point of the book. A shopping list became the story above.

Will this get me published?

It gets you writing your own stories, which is where every book starts. Ben's books came later, from the writing.

What if it doesn't work for me?

Do your first Magnetic Task tonight. If you don't have a story of your own on the page within 72 hours, email me at jill@thejoyfulwriter.com and I'll refund every cent.

72 hours from now, one of two things is true

The cursor is still blinking on an empty page.

Or there's a story on it. Yours. From a moment you used to think was nothing.

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P.S. Ben thought his life was “nothing significant.” It was three books. Your stories are already there. Let me show you where to look.

P.P.S. Not sure? Start your first Magnetic Task tonight. If there's no story of yours on the page in 72 hours, you get every cent back. It starts with eggs, milk, cheese. I promise it makes sense.

Write, Writer, write.
Jill

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