Planning and Early Drafting Coaching Packages
Let’s Get This Party Started!
This package focuses on helping you start writing your novel. It’s for people at the idea-generation, planning, or staring-at-a-blank-page stages, or who are stalled out or going verrry slooowly in early drafting.
(Per 4-Week Period)
Tier 1 includes:
• 1 Coaching Session
• Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents (or, if desired in a second or later month, Pre-Session Reading: Draft Pages)
• Biweekly Homework OR weekly Email Check-In OR Voice Messaging
• [Optional add-on: 1–2 Office Hour Chats]
Tier 2 (More Support) includes:
• 2 Coaching Sessions
• Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents (for session 1)
• Pre-Session Reading: Draft Pages (for session 2)
• Biweekly Homework OR weekly Email Check-In OR Voice Messaging
• [Optional add-on: 1–2 Office Hour Chats]
More about those options:
Coaching Session
(Per 4-Week Period)
Tier 1 includes:
• 1 Coaching Session
• Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents (or, if desired in a second or later month, Pre-Session Reading: Draft Pages)
• Biweekly Homework OR weekly Email Check-In OR Voice Messaging
• [Optional add-on: 1–2 Office Hour Chats]
Tier 2 (More Support) includes:
• 2 Coaching Sessions
• Pre-Session Reading: Planning Documents (for session 1)
• Pre-Session Reading: Draft Pages (for session 2)
• Biweekly Homework OR weekly Email Check-In OR Voice Messaging
• [Optional add-on: 1–2 Office Hour Chats]
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
- Review of up to 2,000 words of planning documents to discuss in session
- Please get me your words at least 3 business days before our scheduled coaching session.
- Review of up to 4,000 words of fiction draft/manuscript to discuss in session
- Please get me your words at least 3 business days before our scheduled coaching session.
- Stay in touch with voice messages (recorded and sent through Discord direct messages). This is useful for people who like to think things through aloud, who have an easier time formulating questions this way rather than in writing, or who feel motivated by the connection of voice-to-voice communication. You can commit to a schedule or reach out whenever you want.
- Includes up to 30 minutes/month of voice messages from you, plus voice responses from me within 2 business days.
- A weekly, personalized nudge on the day of your choice, bugging you (but, like, in a nice way!) about your goals, deadlines, or writing life. Then you let me know how things are going, have a nice brag, and rework any goals that need it.
- 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.
- 30 minutes on Zoom (or text chat in Discord), no session prep or wrap-up email
- For when you have questions, want to talk through an idea, or need help brainstorming solutions for an annoying writing problem!
