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Field Guide for Narrative Recovery
A Companion for Reflection, Rhythm, and Renewal
The Field Guide for Narrative Recovery is a free, digital companion for writers, artists, and individuals cultivating authorship in their creative and personal lives. Originally developed as part of my one-on-one mentorship practice, it now lives as a self-paced invitation into the work of creative restoration.
Structured around themes of attention, devotion, and rhythm, the Field Guide offers prompts, reflective exercises, and creative frameworks designed to help you locate yourself in language again—to meet your voice where it truly lives, not where you’ve been taught to perform.
This is not a workbook or a self-help manual. It’s a portable studio: a space for pause and process, a map for rebuilding creative trust. You can move through it at your own pace, returning as needed to what deepens you.
Whether you’re writing toward recovery, renewal, or refinement of craft, the Field Guide is an open door back to your own authorship.
Format: Digital PDF, free to download
Use: Self-guided or as part of mentorship work
Community Care Initiative
Why I’m Offering This Freely
I am a single mother, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing shaped by recovery and reverence. I’ve spent years balancing classrooms and caregiving, literature and living—raising children while teaching others to write their way toward clarity, while writing myself into coherence.
Much of my life has unfolded in spaces that value polish over truth, performance over presence. I’ve always been a little outside: too raw for academia, too literary for the mainstream, too spiritual for the marketplace. Still, I’ve built a life in the in-between.
The Field Guide for Narrative Recovery grew from that place. It’s the framework I developed to help others return to what is quiet, disciplined, and real—the holy of self that exists beyond the gaze. The work resists perfection, honors complexity, and treats the creative process as an act of both craft and care.
This offering is free because reflection and creative restoration should never hinge on access or privilege. Because language, like belonging, is a right—not a reward.
The practice is simple: to meet yourself without disguise. To make beauty not for approval, but for aliveness.
-Annabelle Fern Praznik, MFA
A Companion for Reflection, Rhythm, and Renewal
The Field Guide for Narrative Recovery is a free, digital companion for writers, artists, and individuals cultivating authorship in their creative and personal lives. Originally developed as part of my one-on-one mentorship practice, it now lives as a self-paced invitation into the work of creative restoration.
Structured around themes of attention, devotion, and rhythm, the Field Guide offers prompts, reflective exercises, and creative frameworks designed to help you locate yourself in language again—to meet your voice where it truly lives, not where you’ve been taught to perform.
This is not a workbook or a self-help manual. It’s a portable studio: a space for pause and process, a map for rebuilding creative trust. You can move through it at your own pace, returning as needed to what deepens you.
Whether you’re writing toward recovery, renewal, or refinement of craft, the Field Guide is an open door back to your own authorship.
Format: Digital PDF, free to download
Use: Self-guided or as part of mentorship work
Community Care Initiative
Why I’m Offering This Freely
I am a single mother, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing shaped by recovery and reverence. I’ve spent years balancing classrooms and caregiving, literature and living—raising children while teaching others to write their way toward clarity, while writing myself into coherence.
Much of my life has unfolded in spaces that value polish over truth, performance over presence. I’ve always been a little outside: too raw for academia, too literary for the mainstream, too spiritual for the marketplace. Still, I’ve built a life in the in-between.
The Field Guide for Narrative Recovery grew from that place. It’s the framework I developed to help others return to what is quiet, disciplined, and real—the holy of self that exists beyond the gaze. The work resists perfection, honors complexity, and treats the creative process as an act of both craft and care.
This offering is free because reflection and creative restoration should never hinge on access or privilege. Because language, like belonging, is a right—not a reward.
The practice is simple: to meet yourself without disguise. To make beauty not for approval, but for aliveness.
-Annabelle Fern Praznik, MFA