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A writing coach works with writers, offering different kinds of support during a part of the writing journey. Coaches have their own ways of approaching this engagement, much of which depends on their expertise and the kind of support a client requires.

I work with individuals, as well as teams from organisations and companies that are looking to offer support to their team members.

Clients include:
Fiction authors (novels, short stories)
Non-fiction writers (experience sharing)
Content creators (blogs, articles)
The ‘Can I Do This?’ folks
Team members of an organisation / company who need to read, write, brief writers, undertake documentation, or work with research / written content towards achieving a work purpose or business goal.

I work intuitively with my clients. The starting point with each person is an unstructured conversation, followed by a short email exercise that I request all potential clients to do. This exercise becomes the base for decisions, taken together, about the desired outcomes of the engagement. This leads to a plan and a process that we design together.

I follow this method because I work with a very diverse set of folks. Each person is at a point in their journey, experience level, and skills that is particular to them. Each person brings their own psychosocial, emotional and spiritual being to this engagement. I have found this aspect to be of as great importance as skill, creativity and experience. I have had the pleasure of working with writers of brilliance, persons who are brimful of vision and ideas, or with a will to do, be or change something. In the coaching space, sometimes, the key outcomes sought have focused on issues of self-esteem, confidence, breaking away from the norm, working peacefully at a pace that nobody is clocking or judging. Or just answering the question – Can I do this?

Let’s talk. Tell me what you want to do and let’s give it a go. The chances are, you will find a way of doing some part of what you want to do, and re-configuring the rest. You may also find out that you do not want to write your piece yourself. I am a writer, writing consultant and coach. There are many different routes going to a whole lot of places in this terrain.

I offer you sliding scale payment options. What we agree upon is based on mutually acceptable logistics, desired outcomes, and budget feasability, which differ for individuals and for teams. A general starting point is a 6 hour cycle – flexibly divided across one online session per week of about 30-40 minutes, and the balance of my time, flexibly allocated to messaging, emails, reading, review, feedback etc.

We can discuss individual sessions as well as monthly packages. The charges for an intensive program / group coaching are worked out on the basis of specific context.
I do also offer initial consultations at reduced rates after which we renegotiate.

This gives you a rough idea of possibilities, with all of it up for discussion.

Some additional notes:-

(1)I will request you for an advance, with terms mutually negotiable.
(2)If either of us needs to take a break, pause the arrangement or stop, this is acceptable, preferably with a week’s notice. There will be an email check-in at the end of each cycle / check point to confirm a mutually agreed upon way forward.

I offer:
* One-on-one support as a writing coach, and this includes feedback on your writing.
* Strategies and support to overcome your particular version of writer’s block (Yes, there isn’t just one universal kind of writer’s block, and so we work out a solution for you. Your pace, your way, I walk and work with you.)
* Help with planning and structuring your work.
* A conscious awareness towards developing your unique voice.
* Tips for establishing a consistent writing practice, habits and rituals that work for you.

I do not teach language, or writing as a subject, and while I do conduct boot camps and workshops on specific themes, I am not at this point offering a writing course. If I do so in the future, what would you like me to focus on? Suggestions and feedback welcome.

There are many different kinds of editing requirements on a project, and editors have very specific skills and expertise. I greatly admire, and depend on, patient and kind editors. Essentially, an editor focuses primarily on improving a specific piece of writing, while a writing coach focuses on the person doing the writing, including their approach, process and general writer’s state of being. A coach may be able to help you build sustainable writing habits.

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