Hiring a writing coach for one-on-one coaching makes sense. Sometimes your timetable doesn’t work with a class, or you don’t enjoy sharing your work with others.
Most people choose a writing coach because they want one-on-one attention. That’s where one-on-one coaching comes in. You can hire a writing coach for fiction or non-fiction work as well as to improve your business writing.
What is a Writing Coach?
A writing coach isn’t just there for editing and the technical aspects of writing. Darcy will help you edit your work, but most importantly, she is there to help you on your journey to becoming a better writer. That, and finishing your project.
If you want someone to be in your corner, not lie to you, push you to do your best and supply you with a vault full of knowledge, then Darcy is the coach for you.
Fiction and Non-Fiction
A writing coach helps writers dig deeper into their creativity, into their emotions and get those ideas and emotions on the page. Work together with your coach to identify fears and goals, and to see if there are places where you self-sabotage. A writing coach highlights your strengths and helps strengthen areas where you may be struggling.
Darcy’s technique as a coach isn’t for everyone. Most often, writers hire her because they like her no-nonsense approach. Yes, she will push you past your comfort zone. Yes, she will challenge you. And yes, she wants you to succeed more than you’ll ever know. And now and then she’ll find a sentence that simply blows her mind, and she’ll tell you about that too.
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Before You Decide
Before you enter into a contract with Darcy as your writing coach, there are a few things that have to happen first.
- Email Darcy and let her know you’re interested. Let her know your genre, and goals for hiring a coach. Specify if for business or creative writing.
- Send in about 500 words of something you’ve written. Darcy will do a quick edit on it and send it back to you with edits and notes on how to improve and why certain things were changed. This is at no charge and is to help both Darcy and you decide if you are a good fit.
- From there we both decide if we want to work with each other. If we do, that’s great! If we don’t, Darcy can recommend other coaches to you.
- Then we sign a contract. Always Write/Artistic Warrior (AW2) has a contract for all our coaching and editing clients. It protects the writer and their work, as well as us.
What we offer during one-one-one coaching sessions
Note that our basic hourly fee is $150/hour* outside of these packages. Services provided are:
- coaching
- developmental edit (as the story is being developed)
- structural edit (looks for plot holes and flow)
- copy editing (spelling, punctuation, grammar)
- substantive (full edit or content editing)
- line editing (line-by-line editing)
- book layout for eBook and print
- cover creation
- assistance with synopsis
- assistance with query letters
- assistance with self-publishing to Amazon, Kobo, Apple, etc.
- guidance for marketing, distribution, etc.
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