The Story Cauldron
Emotional, technical, and artistic support to help conjure, stir and distill the story you were born to write.
What is The Story Cauldron?
A two-week 1:1 creative immersion for women who feel a story stirring inside them, and are finally ready to bring it into form. Whether it’s a novel, memoir, Substack publication, single piece, or a hybrid of everything you are, The Story Cauldron is a space to uncover your voice, map your story’s bones, and write in a way that feels honest, immersive, and you.
Things I’ve learned after years of writing memoir and perspective pieces on Substack, poetry, and my debut epic fantasy fiction…
Your voice is the most important thing – can the reader feel you and your style in the story? It’s very common for writing to be technically sound, and still emotionally flat. It’s also very common for a story to be “good” but still not memorable or lasting. Your voice is what makes the difference.
Is your reader emotionally invested from the first line? Most writers begin at the chronological start of a story, rather than the moment the story becomes interesting to a stranger—this is true for both fiction and non-fiction. We want to ensure readers feel instant emotional buy-in from the first line. Understanding your emotional hook and premise is key here.
Are you hitting emotional beats that make the reader feel like they’re in your story? This comes down to the principle of show, don’t tell. Don’t tell me you or your character were devastated—tell me you felt like your heart was ripping in two, that you couldn’t breathe, that you kept praying to wake up from the nightmare. Emotional beats will help you do this.
Do you prompt thematic contemplation, or are you preaching? Nobody wants to be told how to feel or what to think—can you coax a contemplation out of your reader instead? Weaving themes through your story is essential for this.
What is the energetic trademark that you leave in your work? What makes it identifiable and undeniably yours?
Do you know your own writing process and style? Do you garden and explore, or plan and build before putting pen to paper?
Do you want your writing to sink into the marrow of someone’s bones?
Want to leave a mark on readers that stays long after they’ve read your work?
Want to have such an undeniable voice and style that your work is inimitable?
Want to not just be a writer, but a storyteller?
And even more than that, a storyteller who pulls people into immersive worlds where your writing lives?
That’s where The Story Cauldron comes in…
The Story You Were Born To Write
Inside The Story Cauldron we develop your unique list of ingredients – style, voice, rhythm, prose, themes, plan, purpose – that get thrown into your cauldron, and conjure a story of otherworldly proportions.
Together, we’ll explore:
Story or publication themes and purpose
Your unique voice
Pacing and rhythm to your writing
A blueprint to your narrative style
Storytelling strengths to highlight
How to perfect the opening of your story
Workshopping specific scenes or articles you’re working on
Practice and get real-time feedback on your writing
How to develop storylines, narratives, and characters (if applicable) that move readers
And more based on your unique writing goals
How it works:
2 x 60-minute calls (one per week via Zoom)
Personalised voice + text support: brainstorming, edits, breakthroughs, or challenges (Monday–Friday for both weeks)
Optional pre-work prompts to get the most from our time
Access to tools and story frameworks I use
The Story Cauldron is perfect for…
Women longing to find their voice, their style, and the unique way only they can tell their story.
Women who feel a story stirring inside them—but don’t know where to start.
Storytellers who want to create a compelling, immersive story with structure, clarity and strategy.
Writers craving intimate, personalised support in shaping the bones of their book.
Creatives who are unsure whether their idea is a memoir, novel, or Substack—and want help clarifying the right vessel.
Intuitive, heart-led storytellers who are tired of rigid writing programs and want guidance that honours their natural creative rhythm.
Dreamers with a partially written manuscript and no idea what the story arc or deeper themes even are.
Writers who are wrestling with self-doubt and want someone to midwife their story into form with care, skill, and sacred attention.
Those who know there’s a powerful message or medicine in their story—but want help drawing it out with clarity and intention.
Writers on the cusp of something big—who need a container to make the leap from “idea” to “I’m writing the book.”
Authors who want to honour both their artistry and their ambition—to craft something real, resonant, and ready for the world.
Storytellers, this is for you.
Ready to join The Story Cauldron?
This is your invitation to stop circling the flame and step in.
If your story’s been whispering to you, if there’s a pull you can’t quite name, if you know there’s something sacred and necessary in what you’re here to say—this is the place.
You don’t need to have it all figured out.
You don’t need a perfect outline or polished prose.
You just need the call, and the courage to follow it.
Because when your story is ready, it will not wait.
And neither should you.
1 x upfront payment of $700AUD + GST
2 x fortnightly payments of $350AUD + GST
*You will be contacted via email with the next steps to take within 24 hours of payment (see below).
The Afterglow:
Once you’ve made your purchase, please keep your eye on your inbox. You’ll receive a personal email from B.J. Wilde within 24 hours of purchase with a form to complete about your ideas, goals and dreams, as well as a calendar link to book your calls and my contact information to text and voice note between sessions. If you have a piece of writing you’ve already penned that feels like a great representation of your artistry, you’ll be asked to send that — not for critique, but for a strengths and style assessment. If not, that’s okay! We’ll work on it together within The Story Cauldron.