Individual Sessions
Write your story.
Find your voice.
One writer to another — Christabel helps writers reach deeper into their stories: into the moment, the texture, the experience that makes a reader feel as though they are there. Your voice, your choices. She helps you tell it better.
On a hike in the Siskiyou mountains, I watched a dragonfly emerge from its mottled grey shell. This was Nature was telling a profound story — with a lesson that has shaped everything I bring to my writing, teaching, and presentations. My art is to recognize and draw out power, beauty, and resonance regardless of the shells they may hide within.
What’s available
Here for a small group of friends or colleagues? You’re in the right place — select Small Group Workshop below.
Private Writing Coaching
Regular sessions tailored entirely to you — your project, your pace, your voice. Whether you’re starting from scratch or stuck mid-manuscript, Christabel works with you to reach deeper into the story: to find the moment, the detail, the texture that pulls the reader fully inside the experience.
Your choices, your voice — she helps you tell it better. Ongoing or short-term engagements welcome.
Inquire about this →Small Group Workshop
Intimate workshops for 3–8 writers, focused on memoir, narrative non-fiction, or personal essay. Each writer’s story gets serious attention — from Christabel and from peers — with a focus on deepening the experience for the reader without losing the author’s voice or artistic choices.
In-person (Bay Area), online, or by arrangement — Christabel has led workshops on research vessels, in Korea, and in France.
Inquire about this →Writing Intensive
A structured series designed to move your manuscript from journal to draft — or draft to something deeper. Drawing on Christabel’s own process of transforming a private journal into published memoir, these sessions focus on reaching into the moment: finding what makes the reader feel they were there.
Custom length — typically 6–10 sessions. Retreats available by arrangement.
Inquire about this →Manuscript Consultation
A deep-read of your manuscript with detailed written feedback and a follow-up conversation. Focused on structure, voice, and what the manuscript is reaching for — with attention to the moments where the reader could be pulled more fully inside the story, while keeping your voice and artistic choices intact.
Memoir, narrative non-fiction, and personal essays.
Not taking new manuscripts at this time.
Inquire about this →Ready to Restart
You have pages somewhere — a story you started and couldn’t finish alone; a place to share your writing, receive skilled feedback, and find the momentum to keep going. Christabel helps you find where you left off, reconnect with what the story is trying to say, and take it further than you could on your own.
For writers at any stage. In person (Bay Area) or online.
Inquire about this →Let’s find out
if we’re a good fit
Tell Christabel about your project and what you’re looking for. She reads all inquiries personally and responds within a few days.
Booking for a library, organization, or group? See the Organizations page →
All inquiries are kept in confidence. Pricing is by arrangement.
A story worth telling might shout to be heard, or can start as something small — a journal, a half-remembered detail, or a feeling you can’t quite reach the words for. The trick is in learning how to trust yourself to tell it.
Christabel Hudson Choi