Share your wisdom. Tell your stories. Authentic always provokes.


Everyone has stories of challenges they’ve overcome, lessons learned, accomplishments realized, and experiences worth sharing with others. Too many people I know shy away from writing any more than they must, doubting their abilities, questioning what would be the value of sharing their peak moments and life learnings? 

I am Deborah Drake, Founder of Authentic Writing Provokes; and I love the power of language and storytelling. I wish that writing came easily to every person, yet, the reality is that some struggle and many avoid it all together.

Authentic Writing Provokes offers clients a collaborative roadmap for overcoming the anxiety of writing for business and personal projects–and more importantly, their reticence to bold and shameless self-expression and self-promotion. Each client receives personalized support in developing their writing voice, editing skills, self-publishing knowledge, and self-promotion talents. 

Authentic Writing Provokes transforms reticence into enthusiasm, self-criticism into skillful self-critique; and liberates the creative storyteller within.

Authentic Writing Provokes coaches and catalyzes self-efficacy in creating content as and for one’s self. I will enthusiastically serve as a writing coach, ghostwriter, editor, and communication cheerleader to help YOU create authentic and compelling content from concept to publication to promotion.

I have had the honor of working with 300+ clients individually and in group settings –who were initially reluctant to share personal wisdom and were reticent about writing for themselves.  The Writer’s Support Group for the Reticent Blogger was one of Biznik’s most popular weekly meetups during its existence, and launched my quiet, ongoing entrepreneurial journey.

  • My clients learn how to embrace creative and authentic self-expression.
  • My clients have finished books they had begun 30 years before.
  • My clients have developed books, blogs, and websites from the seed of an idea to a completed project.

My style of mentoring a reticent writer is grounded in positivity, candor, and generosity.

I wholeheartedly champion “authentic self-expression always provokes.”

The work I’ll do with YOU is my vocation. How may I be of service today?


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