Author Coaching
Author Coaching guides you to the knowledge and clarity you need to make the right decisions for you and your book.
Here are our Author Coaching packages:
First Draft Coaching
This type of book coaching is like getting a Developmental Edit while you are writing your first draft. As you are ready, Erin will read through your new chapters and will write a report focusing on big-picture elements, along with detailed, chapter-by-chapter feedback. She will also leave comments throughout your manuscript with feedback and advice to guide you during your revisions. Then you will meet for an hour-long strategy session so you can discuss the report and plan the next steps in your manuscript. When you are ready for your next review, we will repeat this process.
This type of coaching is best for writers who want hands-on support as they are drafting so they know they are on the right path with their story and are making the most effective choices before they complete their first draft. This is also the right choice for writers looking to produce a manuscript ready for publication or querying in a time-effective manner. The goal with this coaching is to save time in the rewriting process.
Package includes:
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1-hour coaching sessions on Zoom
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Session follow-up reports
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Editorial reports
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Novel Planning Workbook
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Worldbuilding Bible
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Goal-Setting Workbook
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Writing Accountability Coaching
Writing Accountability Coaching is perfect if you’re looking for help, motivation, empathetic support, and accountability with following through on your writing goals. Writing can be a lonely, solitary activity. Writing Accountability Coaching gives you the productivity partner and cheerleader you need to finish your project.
Writing Accountability Coaching focuses on Erin’s PAGES formula:
Productivity
Accountability
Goals
Education
Systems
In your weekly 30-minute Zoom session, she will help you set your weekly writing goals and schedule your writing sessions. For accountability, she checks in with you through the week to keep you on track. During your time together, you'll learn ways to be more focused and productive in your writing time and build the systems that will transform your writing for good.
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Writers with ADHD find this type of coaching especially helpful, as we work on tactics and skills to help you build successful writing routines and habits. Of course, these productivity hacks are useful for anyone with focusing issues and "shiny object syndrome."
Package includes:
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Weekly 30-minute coaching sessions on Zoom
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Session follow-up reports
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Check-ins between sessions
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Novel Planning Workbook
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Worldbuilding Bible
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Goal-Setting Workbook
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Interested in group accountability? Check out our free Writing Accountability Group.
Author Coaching
Do you have writer's block? Struggle with negative self-talk? Or do you just need advice on what to do next in your book? Erin can help. As a certified life coach specializing in working with neurodiverse writers, she can help you reframe negative self-talk and restore your self-confidence. Plus, her writing worksheets and guides will show you how to fine-tune your plot and write “The End” on your draft.
Your hour-long Author Coaching sessions will look however you want them to. We can discuss whatever is on your mind—advice about your book, establishing your writing routine, starting your marketing, guidance about the publishing industry, or anything else writing related.
Package includes:
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Hour-long coaching sessions via Zoom
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Session follow-up reports
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Review of 1,250 words (about 5 pages) with each session
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Novel Planning Workbook
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Worldbuilding Bible
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Goal-Setting Workbook
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What People Say
CANDICE ONRAËT
I need Erin in my creative life! She keeps me on track as a writer and has taught me a lot about coaching and supporting others. With her help, I'm able to maintain a high output, despite a significantly challenged schedule. She has a warm, gentle energy and a sardonic wit that makes her a joy to collaborate with!
My writing and my perspective on writing have been improved since working with Dot and Dash. Erin has a talent of letting you look at your work in an unbiased and objective way. She also gives VERY, VERY constructive feedback on several aspects of your work. As a writer, it's often not easy to trust someone with your work, but it was super easy to trust Erin. I'm so grateful we met. Thank you, Erin!
HUGH O. SMITH
They say accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results, and that's precisely what this group has done for me. Sharing my goals with other writers motivates me to actually achieve them, and when I fall short, the positivity and encouragement that comes from this group is unmatched.
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I love many things about the monthly Writing Accountability Group that Erin leads, but mostly its community of writers from all walks of life and new knowledge I acquire from amazing presenters.
RUZANA GLAESER
on the Writing Accountability Group