I offer personalized, one-on-one mentoring arrangements for writers of prose and poetry at different points in their projects. Such services tend to include:
- a free half-hour initial consult
- a personalized action plan with weekly sessions
- individualized assignments
- feedback that empowers you to improve your own writing
- guidance to set and meet weekly goals, be they a daily word count or completion of project-specific tasks
- questions that clarify the work’s message and encourage you to generate new material
- line-by-line editing and proofreading for pieces that are ready
Contact me now at 917-319-4100 or at moc.h1732172913caoCg1732172913nitir1732172913WFL@a1732172913siL1732172913 to get started or to ask any questions.
Sample Action Plan and Fee for a Creative Writer
| Context: | A memoirist has been working on her book for years and currently has three distinct drafts and hundreds of “finished” pages. Thanks to her sabbatical, she and I can step back and consider, as Vivian Gornick puts it, what story or meaning she wants readers to take away from the situation she’s writing about. |
| Goals: | Identify the “heart” of the memoir; produce new pages aligned with this core idea; and revise existing pages to accentuate this story. |
| Action plan: | We decide to do one 90-minute session every week for three months. The writer emails me about 50 pages every Sunday; I read and mark them up; We go over them and make changes together during the session. |
| Fee: | $150/week |