A New Way to Work with Me 1:1
For those with unfinished drafts & untold stories
This is a milestone e-mail for me—one that seven years ago me would be incredibly proud to read.
The TLDR is I fell in love with teaching this year, and I’m now accepting 1:1 Writing & Creativity Coaching Clients! Read on to hear why.
This is for the creatively curious who want:
Boosted Creative Confidence & to Enhance Your Authentic Voice on the Page
Supportive Feedback to Improve Your Prose, Poetry
or Songs Before Widely Sharing
New Craft Techniques and How to Implement Them Without Getting Your MFA
Techniques to Channel Your Emotions into Writing/Songs to Release Ache
and Create Consistent Art
Accountability & Generative Prompts to Complete Your Essay, Book,
or Spoken Word Album
Insight on Navigating the Wild World of Publishing So You Don’t Have to Go at It Alone
What Led Me Here
When I first graduated from my MFA in Creative Writing several years ago, I wanted to teach. I didn’t see myself up in the lofty 5th-floor university building, but in the community, where my own writing journey began.
I imagined sitting in a space that felt as cozy as a living room and bringing together people who weren’t professional writers, weren’t already booming with confidence, but rather the creatively curious who wanted to build community, cultivate a new craft, and most importantly follow the little voice inside that kept saying, you have something to say. Your story is worth telling.
See, before I got my Master’s, I was curious. I was a journalist and a copywriter who had told myself I couldn’t write anything creative worth reading. But this little voice inside kept tugging, kept whispering otherwise. So, I went to a workshop at San Francisco’s Writing Salon. Then, another with Syr Beker. Then another. Then another. Until all I wanted to do was write—the thirst had become insatiable.
In 2018, when I graduated from my MFA, I tried launching my first writing workshop in Oakland. And guess what? No one signed up. I was mortified. I felt like a failure. So, I quietly gave up right there. Shelved the dream year after year until 2025, when suddenly, organizations started asking me to teach.
I’m a Yes woman. When opportunity knocks, even if it makes me nervous, I always say yes. It’s my law of life. So, that’s what I did.
I taught a sold-out 25-person writing workshop for The Santa Cruz Library. I taught a 4-week online workshop on Storytelling & The Body, and along the way, the universe gifted me multiple 1:1 writing clients.
And even though this was all shuffled on the lunch breaks and after hours of my day job, my soul adored it.
I’ve written for big-name publications like Sunset Magazine, Forbes.com, and The San Francisco Chronicle. I’ve been flown to Laos and Cambodia to produce documentaries for international NGOs. But I had never felt this level of harmony, this degree of ease, this every-cell Soul Yes from my work—until I taught writing.
In my community workshop, I watched a group of strangers scribble away at prompts I’d made up made me feel like some kind of literary wizard. You give people a tiny spark, and they make their own magic. Then, they go on to share that magic with the world!
I got to witness a 1:1 client, who is an incredibly successful executive coach, rebuild her creative confidence after a cruel Hollywood writer tore her work apart. I shared insight on how small bits of craft could enhance her already sharp and hilarious voice on the page, and my heart flooded with happiness watching those essays sharpen and find their way to her Substack for the first time. Seeing that confidence come back after just two sessions was worth the weight of gold.
In my online class, I heard the vulnerable stories of a young writer who is new to writing, and then witnessed how, in just 4 weeks, poetry could become a healing agent to more harmoniously connect with her body.
THAT’s what I live for: Building people’s creative capacity so their confidence, their voice, their loving power can take flight.
Writing this nearly moves me to tears.
And that’s why I’m opening this new door. Because I quite honestly feel like this is what I’m here to do: Create, Connect, and Support Others in Creating.
So, if you’ve been feeling the call to elevate your creative life, you can contact me here, and I’ll get in touch shortly.
Ready to fly together?
I’m only taking 2 new clients right now, and the rest will be placed on a waitlist. So, if you’re feeling that little tug from your chest, follow it. Every time I have, it’s led me to unexpected gold.
Enjoy this summer day, my friends!
Until next time,
Kimberly Gomes
P.S. The brilliant Andrea Gibson, one of my absolute favorite poets, passed away from cancer today. The world lost such a luminary, but thankfully, we still have their poetry. So here’s a little playlist of my favorite tracks. Enjoy and remember: life is short, but our words can live long.