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
• [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
• [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
• [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
• [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.
- 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 work on these homework assignments, plus a very short reflection on how doing the exercise felt, so that I can track how things are going and you can 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
- You bring questions, an idea you want to talk through, or an annoying writing problem for me to help you approach!
