Hi, my name is Ralph Dranow. Welcome to my website.

If you’re interested in creating writing that’s poetic and beautiful and want some help doing that, you’ve come to the right place.

As an experienced editor, ghostwriter, writing coach, and widely published poet and writer, I can help you express the poetry and beauty of everyday life through writing, whether you’ve already written something, want to begin writing, or are looking for a writer to write your life story for you.

Now you will be able to express in compelling prose or poetry the deep truths that you’ve longed to give words and shape to for a long time.

If this fits for you, please continue reading.

 Perhaps you feel as if you’ve been living on the surface of your life, which feels humdrum and routine. You sense there’s more to life than material comforts and familiar routines. Consequently, you want to live more in your heart and less in your head, and you want to feel a stronger connection to yourself and to other people.

You’ve always wanted to write about your life in a heart-centered way, which you sense could widen your horizons, helping you discover the poetry and beauty of everyday life.

But ...

• you’re not writing
• you feel dissatisfied with what you’ve written, so you feel frustrated, anxious, and lonely
• you fear that you’re not a good writer
• and also that if you write honestly about the difficult, painful parts of your life, you’ll feel vulnerable and exposed

 If you choose to work with me on your writing project, there’s a good chance you’ll feel:

• more joy, more aliveness, a deeper sense of meaning and purpose
• happier, less anxious and burdened
• a deeper connection to yourself, to other people, and to Spirit
• more compassion and empathy, more awareness of the poetry and beauty of everyday life, even during its most difficult, painful moments
• Another likely result is that you’ll love to write because it helps you go deep inside and connect powerfully with yourself and with other people when you share your writing with them

And you’ll have completed compelling pieces of poetry and/or prose.

It's gratifying to know that the work I do can make a difference for my clients: for example, working with a beginning poet and sharing her excitement when she got her first two poems published; or helping a teenager get into her dream school, a high school for spoken arts; and crafting a personal statement and editing a research paper for a client which helped her get into a PhD program for Christian social workers.

Why I Write.  What I Do.

I love stories. They give our lives feeling, shape, and texture. People have been telling each other stories for thousands of years. Stories can celebrate the human spirit, giving us hope, especially in difficult times. They can express awe and wonder at being alive in a vast, mysterious universe. Stories can also allow us to express the pain in our lives, enabling us to feel heard with compassion by ourselves and others. And they can help us puzzle out the meaning of our lives. Almost all of my widely published writing, poetry and prose, has consisted of stories, other people’s and my own.