Writer · Writing Coach
I'm Stephen Lloyd Webber. I help writers get to what's underneath the thing they're trying to write. I offer coaching, courses, and a writing practice that settles the nervous system and sharpens what you have to say.
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Courses
A weekend writing marathon that takes you past the surface noise into the kind of sustained flow that changes how you write.
Learn about the coursesCoaching & Ghostwriting
One-on-one writing coaching for aspiring writers. Executive ghostwriting for leaders who need their ideas shaped into prose that sounds like them at their best.
See how we collaboratePersonal Stories & Memoir
Many people have a book inside them. I help families preserve a parent's story, and individuals turn their experience into a finished book.
Start the conversation"My novel was literally transformed in a day. I expected the block I had been feeling to go away, but I didn't expect the floodgates of creativity to open as they did."
Jennifer Sage
Most writers don't need more advice. They need someone who can hear what they're reaching for and help them get there. I've spent fifteen years holding space for writers — in a villa library in Tuscany, in the jungled mountains of Bali, and now remotely. The most important thing a writing coach does is deeply listen and then guide you toward the one move that unsticks everything.
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Newsletter
A weekly letter about the practice of making meaningful work in a commodified age. Essays on freewriting, attention, and the virtues of anti-optimization.
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YouTube
Daily freewriting on a manual typewriter, filmed in real time. Think of it as ambient writing to put on while you do your own work, or something to read closely and see how a practice unfolds.
Watch on YouTube"Stephen has a unique capacity for listening that allows him to understand the feeling that I'm struggling to communicate, and sometimes blindly seeking, in my writing."
Shawn N.
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TMMW
To Map, Must Walk.
The map is the finished work. It's what emerges after you've walked the territory. And while a GPS route demands specific turns, a compass lets you wander while still knowing north. To make the map, you have to walk first.