Welcome to The Harbor ⎈
Drop Anchor With Us; Share Your Story
Join the Voyage
The Harbor is building something larger than any one story
We are coaching towards inner truth. Story collections will illuminate how we navigate real moral choices. Your stories become books; those books reach people who need them.
Talk to Strangers is a startup. We are building The Harbor one authentic story at a time. Your patience and trust mean everything to this voyage.
Words
The Captain’s Charter
Share Your Story
Coming Soon
Images
The Captain’s Plate
Share Your Art
Open Now
Open Now
The Captain’s Plate
The Captain’s Plate is your invitation to share an image: photograph, drawing, painting, or digital picture for inclusion in illustrated editions of Talk to Strangers; like every story shared here, an image earns a fair share of what we build together.
To share an image, Join the Voyage and Drop Anchor; the Captain’s Plate waits for you within.
How An Image Reaches Publication
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Join The Voyage
Create Your Account
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Drop Anchor
Share At The Captain’s Plate
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If Selected
Figurehead Commission
We Sign Terms
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Treasure
You Profit
The Charted Course
How to Develop Your Story at The Harbor
Tell your story; we shape it for publication.
We Find Your True North
Every story rotates around a center
- We begin by developing the characters and conflict
- Compass asks questions to lay the foundation of your story
We Chart the Course Together
The heart of your story beats; our work is to hear it
- This is where your story takes shape; Compass asks questions to reveal what lies beneath the surface
- We seek to align the relationship between decisions, values, and action
- The Harbor requires moral alignment to progress
We Check the Sails for Publication
Your story is constructed, and now we make it shine
- Full Anchor targets weak words and strengthens sentences
- Connect positive sentences with semicolons when the bond is real, and apply the em dash to negatives
- Find our philosophy of grammar at the Chart House
Collaborate in the Captain’s Quarters
Your story has cleared for Voyage
- We find the quote to connect your story with our culture
- We match your story with a Vessel
- Plank Owners set the pace of this process
- North Star
We Have Signed the Captain’s Charter
Your story earns its terms
- When your story is matched with a Vessel, we confirm the final for your approval
- We send the Captain’s Charter for your signature to define compensation for illustrated editions
We Are Ready to Sail
Your signature releases the line
- Return the Captain’s Charter to secure our right to publish your story
- We prepare each Vessel as an eBook and Audiobook
- We prepare the Captain’s Plate to collect images for illustrated editions
We Make Landfall
Your story reaches the shore
- We publish, and each Vessel sails as an eBook and Audiobook
- The Captain’s Plate opens to collect images for illustrated editions
- Payments for story contributions begin