June Impact Writing Weekend
June 6-8, 2025 San Diego, CA
Yesterday I stumbled across a 1938 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriett Beecher Stowe. Having sat in Harriett Beecher Stowe’s dining room in Connecticut, in the same chairs she sat in while fielding letters from her book that helped change the course of America, I was thrilled beyond words. Shelly was actually the one who brought it to me as she was rummaging through the shelves of a quaint and tiny bookstore.
We excitedly explained the importance of this work to the book owner, who seemed happy that we were happy. We also explained that we had learned on the in person Tour of Stowe’s home that her work was first written as a serialized story in the popular newspaper of the time. Each new chapter came out week by week, which led to a huge uptick in newspaper sales.
This all culminated in her actually combining the chapters into a single, unified book, which suddenly began to outsell the Bible…across the entire nation.
Her mother’s perspective of a black family torn apart by slavery touched a chord that the preaching against right and wrong did not. Her unique ability to present the human cost of that abhorrent practice is credited with actually igniting the Civil War.
This woman author used whatever medium she had at the time to get her message out. The notion that books ALONE can move mountains was no more true at that time than it is today.
It’s not really the books that move mountains. It is words that move mountains.
Specifically, written words…
words that can be sent and read and shared and digested and thought about…
words that can capture emotions and call us to action.
Words flowing through fingers.
How powerful across history….and today.
At the upcoming Impact Writing workshop I will be doing my level best to help you bring forth your own words—your own story—the one brimming just below the surface of possibility…
the one upsetting your sleep at night…
or showing up in the swirls of your morning coffee….
It is the story that is crying “Finish me!”…even as its laconic cousin smirks “It’ll never happen.”
The powerful question is: “Do you want to die with this story still in you?”
Come to the next Impact Writing Weekend and discover your purpose for writing the story that you must tell. Key takeaways will be learning your purpose, identifying your unique voice as a writer, and leaving with an outline of your first 25 chapters. Join me for this weekend as I share how my process allowed me to write and publish three National Best-Sellers as well as twelve other books.
LBJ ~ Live. Breathe. Joy.
Impact Writing Weekend
Registrations are open for the June 6-8, 2025 Impact Writing Weekend. This particular weekend will offer both in person and online participants. If you are unable to attend in person consider attending online for the June Impact Writing Weekend.
Quest and Julie Driskill
“A sower goes out to sow, never knowing which seeds will fail, and which will sprout.” This was my experience when I did a Path Workshop in New Carlisle, Ohio with Julie Driscoll. At the time she was a woman with a heart for God, a heart for Kids, and a work ethic that would make a plow horse keel over. She has taken the knowledge we poured into her and multiplied it in incredible ways. Here is a little bit of her story, which is also, ours. She mentions The Path and the Path Elements at 2:00 minutes and 3:39 minutes. Thank you Julie for your faithfulness to youth all over the state of Ohio. My life has been blessed by you.
Quest Youth Development with Julie Driskill and Bryan Moore
