Craft Skills Coaching Packages
Guitar Lessons but It’s Writing!
This package focuses on writing craft and practice. It’s for people who want to write more and explore their creativity, people who feel stuck and want to level up their skills and knowledge, or people working on a novel or other specific project and wanting targeted guidance.
If you’re an absolute beginner wanting to try out fiction-writing the way I might take a ceramics class or voice lessons, we’ll have fun with the nuts and bolts of storytelling: I've got loads to share. If you’re an experienced writer interested in craft deep dives—or in trying your hand at romance—we’ll start right where you are and go from there! That's all exciting to me.
(Per 4-Week Period)
Tier 1 includes:
• 1 craft-topic-focused Coaching Session
• Biweekly Homework OR Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents or Draft Pages
Tier 2 (More Support) includes:
• 2 Coaching Sessions
• Written Feedback (On Style, Mechanics, and Other Paragraph- and Sentence-Level Issues or On Big-Picture, Story-Level Issues)
• Biweekly Homework OR Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents or Draft Pages
More about those options:
Coaching Session
If you’re an absolute beginner wanting to try out fiction-writing the way I might take a ceramics class or voice lessons, we’ll have fun with the nuts and bolts of storytelling: I've got loads to share. If you’re an experienced writer interested in craft deep dives—or in trying your hand at romance—we’ll start right where you are and go from there! That's all exciting to me.
(Per 4-Week Period)
Tier 1 includes:
• 1 craft-topic-focused Coaching Session
• Biweekly Homework OR Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents or Draft Pages
Tier 2 (More Support) includes:
• 2 Coaching Sessions
• Written Feedback (On Style, Mechanics, and Other Paragraph- and Sentence-Level Issues or On Big-Picture, Story-Level Issues)
• Biweekly Homework OR Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents or Draft Pages
More about those options:
Coaching Session
- Pre-session check-in questionnaire to help you gather your thoughts and reflect productively, and to let me know what you’re needing, wanting, dreaming, and achieving
- 30 minutes on Zoom (or text chat in Discord), personalized to your goals and whatever you and your project need most right now
- Post-session email from me with meeting notes and next steps, within 48 hours of our meeting
- Every other week (so, twice per coaching month), you’ll receive a relevant, personalized writing prompt, revision exercise, resource to explore, or other creativity or skills boost, via email. Send me your responses if you want and get gold stars! We can also look at or talk about your homework-based realizations and questions during our sessions.
- Written feedback on up to 2,000 words, attending to issues in the general neighborhood of style—think voice, clarity, precision, readability, flow, point of view, and more—and mechanics, focusing on whatever you want and/or whatever the writing currently needs.
- Please get me your words at least 5 business days before our scheduled coaching session.
- You’ll receive my feedback in Comments and Track Changes on your Word document at least 24 hours before our next session; then we can talk about any questions or ideas it’s raised for you.
- Written feedback on up to 4,000 words (with an option for up to 8,000 words, priced separately), attending to big-picture issues such as plot, structure, conflict, character arc, point of view, pacing, theme, worldbuilding, and genre conventions.
- Please get me your words at least 5 business days before our scheduled coaching session.
- You’ll receive my feedback in an email (and possibly some Comments and Track Changes on your Word document, if appropriate to the issues I’m noticing) at least 24 hours before our next session; then we can talk about any questions or ideas it’s raised for you.
