Writing with Fire and Ice​
Anette Pollner Creative Flow Method
“Anette's amazing workshops teach us to tap into our creativity in new ways. The story ideas I generated grew into my debut historical romance novel for HarperCollins! "
Lenora Bell, Best Selling Romance Novelist
('Disgraceful Dukes' series), HarperCollins/LittleBrown U.S.
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Let us take the fear out of writing!
Best selling authors, writing tutors and startup leaders are changing their writing lives forever with Anette Pollner's SuperFocus method. Overcome the fear of the empty page, obstacles to creativity and procrastination by learning how to get into the flow state of mind. Every day.
Let your writing become an adventure journey into the land of the stories only you can tell.
“Anette's amazing workshops teach us to tap into our creativity in new ways. The story ideas I generated grew into my debut historical romance novel for HarperCollins! "
Lenora Bell, USA Today Best Selling Romance Novelist
('Disgraceful Dukes' series), HarperCollins/LittleBrown U.S.
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SERVICES
Anette Pollner Writing with Fire and Ice Creative Flow Writing Workshops are unique.
They focus on the one aspect of writing that nobody else is teaching: how to generate the original material.
We have developed a fast, inspiring method to access you unconscious mind.
Read more here: Take the fear out of writing!
The method uses the path of sensory input - emotions - memories to get you over the inertia threshold (also called writer's block or procrastination) and into the creative flow.
Once you are in the flow, you won't want to stop. Ideas, words, sentences, stories flow out of your unconscious mind and into your hands.
Participants always say that they have never written so much in one hour before. And most of it is new, surprising and leads to more and
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“I want to thank Anette for her amazing workshops that teach us to tap into our creativity in new ways. The story ideas I generated in her workshops grew into my debut historical romance novel for HarperCollins!"
Lenora Bell
Romance Novelist with 9 Bestselling Books (2016-2023)
('Disgraceful Dukes' 'and 'Thunderbolt' series), HarperCollins/LittleBrown U.S.
USA Today Bestselling Author
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TESTIMONIALS
"Anette Pollner is one of the most committed writers and talented moderators I have met. Her expertise helped no end in polishing and reworking many of the stories in my debut short story collection. The visual, audio and textual prompts for the writing exercises are innovative and inspiring, as is the group interaction that follows. I would recommend Anette’s writing workshops for all serious writers – whether beginning or experienced - who are looking for a creative springboard. For me, it was a winning formula."
Tejaswini Apte-Rahm,
'These Circuses that Sweep through the Landscape'
and the award-winning novel 'The Secret of More', published 2023.
Aleph Book Company
“Inspiration can't be taught -- that's what we're told. Not quite true. Anette has developed techniques to bring us to a place of readiness where inspiration can and does strike. This short course has been the single best investment I've made in my creative writing."
Cait Atherton, Fish and Bridport short story competition winner
“This workshop is cleverly designed to take the fear out of writing and show anyone that they can produce a decent piece of writing in a very short time. The techniques also have benefits beyond writing and also into the field of business. Highly recommended for anyone going through the frustration of writing anything."
Charle Chareonphan
Co-Founder HUBBA Startup Hub Thailand
"I have an MFA in poetry and recently finished my first novel. Anette’s methods made all the difference. I learned to trust the creative process and the flow that emerges from the unconscious mind. "
Mariejoy San Buenaventura MFA.
Creative Writing Lecturer, MU
COMING UP
Book at verystoryltd@gmail.com
Workshops
LIsbon Portugal
17/19July: Find Your Writer's Voice (Bookshop Bivar)
London: 31 August: Connect with Your Writing Passion (freewordcentre)
Bangkok: 30 Sep, 7 & 14 Oct: Find your Authentic Writer's Voice
Previous Workshops
2010 - 2017: 65 creative writing workshops with hundreds of participants. An individual Workshop span several sessions and home assignments
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June 2017: Zen Summer Mindfulness in Lisbon
May 2017: Summer Mindfulness
February2017: Create Your Personal Writing Practice
August 2016: Writing with Fire and Ice
February 2016: For the Love of Writing
August 2015: Work in Progress
May 2015: Toolkit for Business Writing
March 2015: First Workshop Reunion
February 2015: The Story Only you Can Tell
December 2014: I Hate My Deadline -
Creative Writing for Startups 2
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2017:
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September 2014: Creative Writing for Startups 1
August 2014: Create Your Writing Practice
April 2014: Find Your Writer's Voice (new workshop)
February 2014: Fear and Pleasure of Writing
February 2013: Get into the Writing Zone!
August 2012:Spice up Your Writing
January 2012: The Daily Practice of the Empty Page
June 2011: Write with Passion and Discipline
April 2011: How to Sart Your Story and Finish it!
February 2011: Find your Writer's Voice
November 2010: How To Tell Your Story
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ANETTE POLLNER PROFESSIONAL WRITING COACH
Anette Pollner
has won several novel and essay prizes. Her novels have been published by HarperCollins UK under the names of Senta Holland and by Athens Publishers under the name of Nyla Nox. Her stories and articles are published in the US and UK by Business Insider, Open Democracy, Cleis Press, Mergers&inquisitions,PMP Magazine and MarieClaire UK. Under her different author names, she has been featured by the BBC, the Telegraph and the London Guardian.
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Anette Pollner developed her creative writing workshops during her time in Asia, where she also mentored emerging women writers and published local short story collections.
Her approach is informed by her work as a psychotherapist.
It is the answer to a simple question: the mystery of the empty page. Your page is empty now. In an hour there is a story on it. Where did that story come from?
Anette has now designed and led almost 100 unique workshops, all with the same theme: 'Creative Writing from the Unconscious Mind'. She is also working as a Creativity Coach for writers and musicians.
In London, Anette studied and later taught creative writing at the City Lit and City University, as well as at the Arvon Foundation and the Groucho Club and was a regular reader at the London Poetry Society. As an alumna of the elite Emerging Translators programme in London she works as a literary translator for leading international publishing houses such as Randomhouse and Dumont. In her 'first life' she was a theatre and opera director.
Books by Anette Pollner
1. Writing as Nyla Nox
Graveyards o f the Banks is a series of 3 novels set in the jungle of the nightshift at the Most Successful Bank in the Universe in London.
It's funny and tragic, it's sad and absolutely gripping. It's a deep dive into a still very secret world, and into a shadow side of that world that most people know nothing about.
Here is the link: GRAVEYARDS OF THE BANKS by Nyla Nox
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Our very first short story collection with stories emerging from our workshops is out now!
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