Are you having trouble telling your story? I can help. I’m a story coach. I can help you fan that spark you have into a flame or a roaring bonfire. Your choice!
I have a limited number of free 30-minute sessions I offer to give you a taste of story coaching and see if we work well together. And if you love the coaching, I have a variety of packages to choose from.
Interested? Read on to learn more.
Is story coach another name for writing coach?
Not entirely, though there is crossover at times. A writing coach offers career help. They will help you set a schedule, organize your project, and build the outline and structure of your book. A writing coach may offer some basic editing services, primarily developmental but perhaps also structural and editorial. They may help you write a pitch or the copy for your marketing. your identity.
So what is a story coach?
A story coach comes in long before, or maybe during your writing period.
As a story coach I can help you take your story from that initial spark of an idea you might get to a fully-fledged story ready to be written.
How will a story coach benefit me?
If you’re stuck and can’t figure out where your story should go, or how to bridge the middle, or even how to end it, I can be the sounding board you bounce ideas off as your work through them. I will offer questions and, if you want, opinions, but the decisions will always be yours. The voice will always be yours.
Have a character who is stubbornly refusing to talk to you? I have ways of making them talk…hehehe.
Have a setting you can’t quite see well enough to describe? I can help you walk through it and see it in your minds eye.
You get the idea. I’m not here to teach you how to write, or help you develop your skill as a writer. I’m here to help you develop your story into a book you can share or sell. I’m here to help you flesh out plots, subplots, settings, and characters so you can finish telling your story.
Are you writing a memoir? I can help you decide what to focus on, make decisions on how to illustrate the difficult moments, and how to find the reason you want to write it.
What is a writing coach then?
A Writing Coach may also help you organize your life, so you learn to make time for your writing and help you see your writing as a valuable part of who you are. They may offer editing advice, or actual editing of your manuscript.
I can offer a little help here. I can help you determine how much time you want to devote to writing and how to make it happen. I can also help you define yourself as an author and point you in the right direction to develop that aspect of your identity.
Services I offer:
I can help you
• Figure out how your story can be told and where to start
• Figure out the beginning, middle and end
• Develop your characters, both main, secondary and tertiary
• Determine the full plot of your story, and help you fit it into the story structure of your choice
• Fully develop your characters so they have a backstory that makes sense, a defining moment and a clear goal, motivation, and conflict
• Decide what genre you are writing, and help you compare it to successful books within the same genre
• Do a deep dive into the plot-line of your story and determine what sub-plots you will write into the story
• Do a deep dive into any character’s story and develop them so they will jump off the page at your reader
• Do a deep dive into your villain, person or situation, and help you develop them with a clear goal, motivation and conflict to make your villain pull your reader into your story
• Take a critical look at your opening chapters to determine, together, if they will set up a story your reader can’t put down
• Review up to 20 pages of your work-in-progress so you can be sure it’s saying what you want it to say