After gaining a certain renown in the field computer science in the '80s and '90s, Kathleen Spracklen settled into a long career as caregiver to all the folks at PA-Distribution who sit or stand in front of a computer all day. She saw her role as enabling the machine to be the servant of the people, while honoring the order and integrity of the data. Her computer science background in systems building aided in that mission.

Newly retired, she found a new group of underserved need: writer-moms. People with a story to tell and only fragments of time in which to write. So she drew on her systems building together with a three-year period when she served as statistician for a renowned psychology researcher. She created a tool that only requires a pen and a 4x6 file card to enable writer-moms to bridge those fragments of time into a coherent story with living characters. She turned her knowledge into a 35-week course and was astounded at the broad spectrum of individuals drawn to the course.

She had unleashed a power far beyond connecting story threads. She had found a way to organize and encapsulate the emotions of the struggles of life. The tool that enables a writer to reconnect with the emotions of their story also enables transmitting those emotions to the reader, not by describing the emotion, but by evoking it in the reader.

Then, because the emotions are captured, they can be manipulated.

I discovered that I had in my hands everything necessary to take your reader on an emotional journey, the kind of journey they will remember FOREVER.