My brother once said to me, “If experiences were riches, you’d be loaded.”

He was referring to the several cities I’ve called home, the jobs I’ve held and the people I’ve met. He has three kids and a wife. I have a three decades of a life on the go. Married to my curiosity, I birth one experience after the next, and each one has its stories.

We all have stories. We’re made of them.

My name is Pema Teeter, aka Story Charmer

Story coach, writer and playwright, I find story in everything.

You’ll find it here too. You might even find yours.

Stories relate us

…whether we’re selling or buying or trying to get by.

When you tell your story, you begin to understand what moves you, and others. You don’t have to share your story, but you have to find it. It’s your touchstone. Let it inform.

Everything is story

Here you’ll find…

Story Living

Life in the making, and its curiosities, adventure.

Story Writing

The delicious and exacting craft of slinging sentences. Word.
Tips, thoughts, offerings about technique.
Practice. Mistakes.

Story Growing

Fear, joy, and hopefully some nudity in the form of truth.
Ever changed your life by changing the stories you tell about it?
You can.
Watch the sidebar for offerings that reveal your voice and shape your story.

A little more about me…

My freelance career began after college, as a features writer and editor-in-chief for a community magazine in Santa Barbara, California. At the same time, I stumbled into a weekly interview column for the local Arts and Entertainment paper. These interviews early on set the framework for what I would keep learning as a writer, over and over in the continuation of my my career. They taught me to listen, first of all, and to disappear in the writing, so that my subject could shimmer in his or her individuality. Fifteen years later, my listening is my greatest tool. It has deepened my relationships and absorbed best practices inside online and brick and mortar industries (finance, technology, online advertising, grantmaking, entertainment, and others in the private and nonprofit sectors). My interviews, writing and story coaching continue to center on what I hear, and what can come to the surface as a result.

More recently, my work has led me to represent companies and organizations as a social media rep, moderator and hostess of sorts.

My skills are at your service.

Schools:
Actors Studio Drama School, New School for Social Research, New York City, M.F.A. Candidate, Playwriting, 2001
College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, B.A. in Literature, 1995

 

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