Coaching
You have a book inside you, strewn across several napkins from your favorite coffee shop, or maybe half-written on your computer. You are ready to pull it all together and get your first draft finished.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
To move from amateur to professional takes consistency, courage, and community. A writing coach can offer accountability . She can be your bedrock. And of course, she is your best cheerleader.
You have a book inside you, strewn across several napkins from your favourite coffee shop, or maybe half written on your computer. You are ready to pull it all together and get your first draft finished.
Memoir and other nonfiction authors bring their stories to the world to create change for others. Changemakers are the best people in the world.
“As a coach, Melody Owen has been instrumental in helping me with not only her personal extensive and professional knowledge and skills, but in her ability to bring in additional help, mentoring, services and experts in all things related to writing. I have been truly grateful to Melody for her help, her knowledge, her guidance and her opinions. If you are considering working with Melody, I highly recommend it, and can say without a doubt, your work will be better for it.”
A writing coach can help you
- Build consistent writing habits and routines
- Overcome writer’s block and other perfectionist pitfalls
- Crystalize themes and topics
- Plan and research your ideas to make writing flow more easily
- Set goals, timelines and stay on schedule
- Talk back in a sassy ass manner to your inner critic
I work exclusively with two types of authors:
- Memoirists
- Entrepreneurs writing a book for business