Coaching
Now we come to the fun stuff!
Coaching involves an ongoing relationship between the protégé and the coach. It comprises all of the editing and critiquing services listed on the foregoing pages.
But coaching is more than that.
It also involves:
- Dialogue about working habits
- Exercises to stretch your creativity
- Assignments with deadlines to help you kill the procrastination virus
- Constructive condolences upon rejections
- Enthusiastic congratulations upon acceptances
- Continuous encouragement for wing-stretching
Coaching relationships are entered into in contract form for specified period of time, most commonly 3 to 6 months.
The contract specifies:
- Number and nature of writing projects to be addressed during that period
- Number of assignments to be given
- Number of exercises to be offered
- Unlimited e-mails with questions and answers, frustrations and encouragements
Coaching is an on-line relationship. It allows us to be partners in your writing career no matter where you are in the world. The on-line relationship allows me to edit, critique and write to you at an hour when your schedule likely would not support a face-to-face meeting.
Generally an e-mail is answered within 24 hours if at all possible. If an edit or critique is involved, you will receive an e-mail acknowledging receipt of the work and a timeframe when you can expect to see my comments.
If I am going to be out of touch for any length of time, you will be notified in advance if at all possible.
