The Writers’ Studio One-on-One Mentoring Program
Working with a mentor can be beneficial for a writer at any stage of the creative process – whether you have a raw first draft of a novel or even part of a story written that you need help redrafting, or you just want some professional assistance to strengthen your scene writing abilities and help with story structure and plotting. Sometimes our writing project or motivation simply stalls and we know something is wrong with our book, but we don’t know what, or how to fix it. This is when working with a mentor can be invaluable.
The 3 Month Mentoring Program teams you up with a professional editor and writing coach who you will work with you one-on-one across email and zoom. They will read your work and provide specific feedback on your writing and guide you to bring the best out in your story. Learn how to write chapters that raise stakes and progress story so there are no flat spots in the narrative. Develop realistic and compelling characters. Write with plot, genre conventions, character and emotional arcs, and theme in mind. There is so much more to writing a novel than pretty words on a page, and by investing in a mentor you will take an intense dive into progressing your manuscript, while also learning more about the craft and yourself as a writer.
Three Month Intensive Mentoring Details:
10 hours of one-on-one mentoring – across email and zoom, with written feedback on your writing and the provision of resources and exercises that will help you find your story, develop your writing craft, fine tune your voice, and progress your novel.
1st Month: 3.5 hours
Structural document, personal information about your writing journey and goals, and a synopsis
Sending in your opening chapter up to 3000 words. You will receive detailed feedback on this
One hour zoom call to discuss and make a plan for next two sessions.
Full email access
2nd Month: 2.5 hours
Hours given to feedback and zoom calls – up to writer how they want to use it.
Full email access
3rd Month: 4 hours
10,000 word submission
One hour zoom call
Full email access
Three-Month Extension:
Additional 6 hours of one-on-one mentoring – across email and zoom, with written feedback on your writing and the provision of resources and exercises that will help you find your story, develop your writing craft, fine tune your voice, and progress your novel.
Mentor
Kelly Rigby is an editor, creative consultant and writing coach who helps writers find their story and unique style, build strong characters and plot, and a compelling story arc. The writers she has worked with have gone on to land publishing deals, be longlisted for literary prizes, win Varuna fellowships and Romance Writers of Australia awards, and achieve success in independent publishing. She holds qualifications in creative writing (UTS) and has been writing and editing for over 25 years. She has mentored hundreds of writers, so whatever your creative process, she has the techniques to help you write, edit and finish a book. Kelly will help keep you accountable for meeting your writing goals in a way that works for you and is more customised than you receive in an online creative writing course.