BOOK COACHING WITH
Carolyn Shanti
My aim as a book coach is to become a writing partner for you, someone with whom you can check in with as frequently as once a week.
I will help you to bring out your own knowledge and awareness of the writing and publishing processes. To offer you the evaluation of your writing and manuscripts.
We will start at the beginning to look at your goals as a writer and then to create your first book, or short story plan, in line with your intentions. I will work with you on book outlines, chapter headings, synopsis, planning your work step by step so that you feel secure in the whole process from beginning to end. There will be times when I edit your work and teach you also how to do this for yourself before you even take on an external editor or proof-reader.
Some of my workshops are around ‘writing and healing’ and often in an author’s passage to the completion of a book there is a wish to become aware of one’s own true nature or emotional patterns. These things can come up in ‘writer’s block’ or just create a situation where you are suddenly uncomfortable about your writing or yourself.
I find that in looking at these things, one is then released to move on with the project in a much lighter way. It is important to look at ‘good writing’ and ‘challenged writing’, to understand the difference between the two and to know how to perfect and grow in your writing.
And then in later stages of our work together when you move from that very private space of writing to a more public arena, I work with you to find the right publication avenue for you, what suits you and what is possible. In this way you will gain confidence in your own self to take a writing project from its very inception to the final day when you are able to celebrate your success as a writer in every way.