do you hear that?
We never get to see first drafts of our favorite stories, so we don't know how first drafts are supposed to look. They're messy. They're imperfect. They might even be pretty bad, actually.
Are you brave enough to write them anyway?
Will you choose courage, and magic?
Will you open yourself up to the alchemy of storytelling, creating something tangible on the page from nothing but the ideas in your mind, heart, and spirit?
You don't have to be confident. You don't have to be good. You don't have to be experienced.
All you have to be is willing.
Your story is waiting.
a wild mentor appears!
I help neurodivergent, chronically ill, and queer creatives get back to the birthright of their innate creativity.
Frodo had Gandalf, Luke had Yoda, Elle Woods had Paulette.
Every adventurer is capable on their own... but they usually don't know it at the start. That's where I come in.
My job as a story coach is to hold the vision of your story's future, while you do the hard work of expanding your comfort zone and actually writing the damn thing.
I'm a published author and journalist, but that's not what backs up my coaching.
It's my special blend of magic, audacity, and feral autism that'll have you believing you deserve your wildest dreams.
My clients describe me as:
A creator of safe spaces
A velociraptor trainer
A bus of validation
Dr. Pimple Popper - able to draw things out of people like no one else could
Caitlin offers bespoke advice for each and every one of us. After couple of sessions, they realize what your learning style is and their advice begins to shape around that.
Nobody in my life has ever just believed in me and my creativity. Caitlin has created a safe space of the most incredible humans you'll ever meet. You are never too much, you are never a burden. Having Caitlin by my side has slowly mended not just my heart but my overall outlook on life.
Caitlin's spaces have been safe and comfortable for me to participate in. By finding the ability to use my creative outlet, I was able to find joy again. I was able to start participating in my life.
Do you have a story in your head that will not quit?
Do you keep talking yourself out of writing because you don't have time or the right desk?
Do you want to turn writing into a home base, an old friend, a lover whose touch you would know anywhere - that you can always ALWAYS come back to, no matter how long it's been?
Do you work well in a small group community of people cheering each other on, sharing, and learning from each other's successes and mistakes?
Working Title Writing Incubator is $6,000 for twelve months of support. The standard payment plan has no fees and simply breaks your total into twelve automated payments of $500.
Email us at hello@lilacpointcreative.com for more information on payment plans, or book a consultation to discuss.
writing a book is hard, y'all
Creating while neurodivergent or chronically ill adds countless barriers to the creative process. We try to follow advice about consistency and word counts and the rules of the publishing world to shape the way we write, paint, collage, sculpt...
Only to fall short, and judge ourselves over and over when it just doesn't work for us.
Your creative spark in this world is special, important, and yours.
Inside this sacred space, we throw out the "rules" of writing advice.
It is my deepest desire to connect with YOU and YOUR STORY, helping you find the right process and practice for your unique needs.
What makes Working Title different from any other writing group?
It centers marginalized writers - neurodivergent, chronically ill, queer, and anyone else who's been treated like their creative projects don't matter the way "normal" people's do.
Fuck normal. We're weird and proud of it.
Check out the absolutely bananas results that come from effective (and compassionate) critique.
These case studies show the biggest concerns Working Title members had before critique - and their transformation after taking a chance on sharing their work. (Five out of five think you'll love it).
Fear of sharing vulnerable stories that are honestly kind of a downer.
Fear of sharing creative work after being teased about it in the past.
Fear of sharing your work with new people.
Absolute perfectionism and the fear of sharing rough draft work.
Trying to write fiction for the first time and not knowing what the hell you're doing.
It's tempting to do ALL the research before you start writing.
What kind of book are you writing?
How many words should it be?
What do you need to know about the genre?
What questions do you have about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing?
The hardest challenge ahead of you is letting yourself write the story.
Getting right in there, finding out what works for you and what sends you spiraling on a wild Google goose-chase, playing with different styles, POVs, voices, and ideas is WHAT WILL CREATE A LASTING ROUTINE.
As a neurodivergent and chronically ill writer, I've had to figure out how to combine the passion project of my novel into my limited time and energy as a disabled creative - learnings I pass onto the writers inside this incubator.
My teachings give you permission to go at your own pace and stop trying to make things work that truly do not work with your brain.
Your story matters. Get it out of your brain and onto the page.
If you think “I wonder if I could write a book,” you can.
If you think, “I wonder if I’m a writer," you are.
Once you've spent a few weeks in this space, you will begin to understand your unique writer’s brain.
You will see the themes among your writing partners of what writers think about, and get stuck on, and delight in, and wonder about, and worry about, and curse about.
The doubt will disappear. You will realize the truth that has always been part of you:
You are a writer.
And it will scare you and thrill you at the same time.
"Oh yeah - I am a writer."
Anne-Marie completed her first draft of Constance, a historical fiction novel about Constance, Princess of Antioch, within her first year in the program. Two revisions later, she's almost ready to query agents and find a home for her story.
The antidote to thinking you are the suckiest writer in the whole wide world? Being in a room with other writers whose writing you love, and seeing them think the same shit.
You belong. Your story belongs. Your imperfectness belongs.
This is a space where you can take what you need and leave the rest, depending on the accommodations you need for your own neurodivergent brain.
In addition to critique, we also have weekly body doubling and coaching calls.
Co-Writing is a weekly session to body double and work on your book. We also have informal co-working times throughout the week on Discord.
It took Libby two years to write the first 29K words of her story... and then this happened after one week in the incubator:
"Already the payoff is astonishing to me. I've discovered that co-writing was the piece I was missing.
This comes as a complete surprise to me because I enjoy being alone and the idea of co-writing felt awkward and weird to me. I've written almost 3,500 words this week!
I now see my novel as an inevitability, rather than a pipe dream."
Our coaching calls are part community building, part question answering, part standup comedy. (I learned to cope with a traumatic past by becoming hilarious).
After a few calls, you'll start to realize that none of your sneaky thoughts actually mean you're messing anything up. No more self sabotage. No more imposter syndrome spirals.
You'll go from "Where do I even begin?" to "I didn't know I was allowed to do it like that!" Because fuck the rules. We vibe.
"Anytime someone asks a question, we all benefit."
After some writing trauma, it's been hard for Frankie to embrace her creative outlet of writing. But with the combination of supportive elements inside Working Title (adjustable goals, compassionate coaching, and judgment-free critique), she's gotten back to herself in a whole new way.
Even while you're drafting your book, you can also be growing your social media following and promoting your work! We have rotating calls to support your marketing strategy including Q&A, teaching, coworking, and content review.
These calls are led by our content coach Megan ⬇️
Megan Griffith (she/her) is an author, content creator, and life & business coach for chaos gremlins (like herself).
She's grown her following to over 400,000 people across all platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and email.
She loves coaching people on content creation and marketing because being able to do it well has radically changed her life (and she wants it to change yours too).
When she's not working, you can typically find her dying her hair or going on walks with her husband and three kiddos.
We don't do cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all, just-do-what-I-did coaching.
Inside the incubator, you'll determine which of four archetypes most represents your creative style (and your most common creative blocks):
Are you a Wallflower, Archaeologist, Researcher, or Sculptor?
This Creative can get inspiration at a moment’s notice when they stumble upon one key part of the project and discover the rest as they go!
Keeps a running list of loose ends and details to fill in later
Does not care about the directions that come with flat pack furniture
Starts to feel anxious when the whimsy doesn’t start to look like a finished product
Ease with: Following the fun
Set free by: Permission to not outline and just figure it out
The Researcher archetype wants to have a solid plan in place before they take creative action.
Structure = yes please
Has 43 tabs open and a waiting list at the library
Can’t finish writing this story until they look up the minimum wage in 1991
Has tried every organizational tool
Ease with: Factual, accurate work
Set free by: Permission to have fun now and refine for mastery later
This Creative likes to learn a lot and bend the rules to create new, unique works of art.
Aware of “the rules” but bends them to fulfill a vision
Has a plan but lets it wander
Works with loose parts that come together at the end as if by magic
Ease with: Letting things be unfinished for now
Set free by: Permission to not always have to invent a totally new thing
This Creative is most at home in their comfort zone: the genres, mediums, and skills they already know.
Loves tropes and cliches because they’re safe
Wants to branch out, but overwhelmed
Seeking confidence, but scared of mistakes
Ease with: Finding inspiration and reference material in their favorite things
Set free by: Permission to go off-book and try something new!
We get pretty close-knit in here.
Each year, our group gathers for a writing retreat to connect, stay up way too late, eat amazing food, and write (a little). So far we've held retreats in Norton, Ohio; Plainfield, Massachusetts; and this year's retreat is in Rushville, Ohio about an hour outside of Columbus.
Someday I'd love to host the retreat in Spain. For now, we stick to the states and try to keep it cost effective.
After twelve months inside the incubator, your biggest transformation won't be how many words you wrote, it'll be how much kinder you are to yourself and the way you effortlessly call yourself a writer.
Here's what my clients say after we've worked together.
What will your transformation be?
"I don't need somebody to buy the book for me to have written a book."
"I've given myself permission to tell my story and it's okay that it's not for everyone."
"This is a thing I'm making, and it's part of who I am."
"My biggest transformation is finally seeing myself as a writer."
"I think of myself as a writer now."
"It's helped me get back to that child who would just create."
"Every little step that I take, no matter how small, is still leading me towards my goal of writing."
"I wasn't aware that this was I was called to do."
Evan went from having a secret draft only his wife had seen to being proud of his book and ready to write an entire post-apocalyptic AU fantasy series. It's genre bending in the BEST way and, no pressure, I think it's the next Game of Thrones.
Caitlin walked me through a super fun and intuitive framework to lay out my entire novel outline and I SWEAR TO GOD they are a writing genius and will help you write your book.
I am so grateful I joined this Incubator, because it opened up a part of me that was dead for so long. I feel excited again with this new, healthy, creative outlet. I know I am on the right path. It's what I was meant to do. It's for ME.
I've gone from doubting that my writing has value and considering giving up on a project that I've worked on for years, to finishing up a manuscript and querying agents.
up for a little hero's journey between friends?
Enrolling for 2026!
Doors open in November until twelve spots are filled for the 2026 cohort of the incubator.
The investment is $6,000 USD! Here's what's inside:
Weekly coaching for a year to keep you accountable to your goals and bust through the blocks, distractions, and negative self-talk that keeps you from succeeding
Weekly co-working for body doubling and group accountability
Weekly marketing support to develop your brand, strategy, and social media content
Biweekly critique to shape your first draft and accelerate your writing skills to the next level
An active Discord Community with your own channel where I'll drop resources for you and your story (stuff like agents that are a good fit, publishing opportunities, panels or events you could speak at...)
Lifetime access to your client portal, with over 100 coaching videos organized by topic
An invitation to our 2026 retreat (dates, location, and cost TBD)