Speaking, interviews & Podcasts

Career focused:

• Discover Creative Values with the Enneagram (60 min)
  We take a look at what we want our writing and money to do for us on an emotional level. By examining our creative needs separately from our financial desires, we align and reclaim our career by pursuing meaningful work that gets us paid.

• Building a Sustainable Career through Internal Motivation (Workshop) (60-90 min)
  Author and Enneagram Spectrum Method-certified consultant Claire Taylor will answer questions about your Enneagram type and walk you through a process to tap into your core motivation to build a satisfying long-term writing career. Stop spinning your wheels and feeling overwhelmed by all the things you could be doing. This session will provide you with a clear path forward and questions to ask yourself before taking on new projects.

Storytelling Focused:

• Writing With the Enneagram (60 min)
  Write stronger, more consistent characters by learning how the Enneagram personality framework can be applied to your protagonists, antagonists, secondary characters, themes, and story arc. This is an intro to the Enneagram and the resources to learn more.writing. Learn how to create killer action scenes, nail-biting drama and romantic moments that will leave your readers swooning for more.

• Pick Your Stick & Carrot: Coherent Character Motivation with the Enneagram (60 min)
  Understanding what motivates your protagonist is essential to drive the story forward. Once you know their Enneagram type, you take the reins. Learn about each of the nine types’ core fear and core desire so you can easily incentivize your characters to move where you need them to go in believable ways.

• Humor Mining: The What, Why, and How of Adding Humor to Your WIP (60 min)
  Your story desperately needs a pop of humor, but you’re not sure where to get started. Claire Taylor, author of the comedy series Jessica Christ, Kilhaven Police, and The Alice Luck Space Adventures will walk you through where, when, and how to use humor to the greatest effect in your stories. These tips can be applied right away to elevate your WIP.

half-day workshops and masterclasses

• Author Alignment Workshop
  Stop wasting energy spinning your wheels! Get your author career aligned so you can stop worry whether you’re heading in the right direction and start enjoying the ride, knowing you’ve built a career that will bring you fulfillment for years to come. This three-hour workshop will expand on four levels of Author Alignment: Career Values, Persona, Theme, and Protagonist. There will be a short refresher on each topic, then exercises, time for sharing, and a Q&A before moving onto the next concept. Enneagram questions are, of course, welcome, since that’s a large component of the Author Alignment framework.

• Enneagram & Fiction Masterclass
  One of the worst insults a reader can give is, “That character never would have done that!” But there are ways to guarantee that doesn’t happen, and it’s all found within getting to know your characters at a core level.
  This masterclass is a dive into how the Enneagram can be used to build stronger and clearer character motivations in our fiction. Every other storytelling skill builds off this one, so we want to make sure we master it!
  I’ll be showing you how to use the Enneagram framework to develop strong characters and define the right kind of conflict for them. We won’t be going deep into each of the nine Enneagram types, but rather learning how the tool works for fiction so that you can begin to learn more about it through self-study.
  In-person event will include additional exercises to encourage participant exploration.

• Five-Star Power Endings Masterclass
  We all know strong endings are crucial for a reader to move on to your next book. We (humans) put a disproportionate weight on endings. I mean, think about it: What was the last movie or TV show you saw or book you read where the ending was, in your opinion, terrible? Maybe it was a great story up until that point. Would you recommend that book or movie or TV show to a friend, knowing the ending sucked? Or might your recommendation always carry the caveat of "but the ending was bad"?
  You have GOT to stick the landing if you want your storytelling career to keep thriving. We all know this. And it can become a source of massive anxiety for an author.
  The class will consist of a lesson with examples and questions for you along the way. At the end of the lesson, participants are invited to share their ending woes, and I’ll offer live consulting.

• Hero’s Journey of the Enneagram Masterclass
  You're probably familiar with the hero's journey, but did you know that certain elements coincide with the Enneagram Levels of Development? We'll take a deep dive into this SUPER nerdy concept to help you understand what call to action, adventure, supreme ordeal, and elixir naturally fit with your protagonist.
  This masterclass will help you understand your protagonist’s struggles as well as central themes that naturally arise for the personality type to help you write stronger, more compelling stories.
  Master the concepts necessary to write authentic, well-defined, and sympathetic protagonists your readers will want to revisit time and time again.
  Participants would benefit the most with some basic understanding of the Enneagram prior to attending, though there will be plenty of opportunities for asking questions along the way.

Looking for another topic you’ve heard Claire speak about that isn’t on the list? No problem. Just include it in the email.