In the Salt Spring Mentoring
approach we have, via the Internet, a couple of meetings a month.
During our first meeting, we discuss your project, your dreams for what you want to write. Together, we work out a realistic personal goal for each month. When you've completed your writing for the month, you'll then submit your pages.
In our second meeting, you'll receive my detailed annotations of your pages, and we'll discuss plans for the next month's writing.
As a mentor, I work on helping you become the best kind of writer you wish to become. That's why we spend a great deal of time on the annotations, and on follow-up. Pretty simple - the focus is on writing.
Your talent is unique. Together, we rediscover your particular gifts and apply them to your creations.
If you already have a work-in-progress, I welcome that process. Lots of times, as writers, we get too close to a manuscript; sometimes, we're in love with a character who, quite simply, needs to leave.
It's useful to have a conversation with an impartial witness to the creation itself. One of the functions of a mentor is to provide fresh eyes and ears for work that's been in development for a while. It's a part of the work that I love.
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Mentoring from a professional writer. It incorporates your dreams, as well as the reality of how you like to work. And about where you think we're going in the area you wish to work in, or already do. This art-form-show-biz we work in, is in radical change - so it helps amazingly to move through such times, by thinking about ways we may keep working and creating.
Appointments may be arranged by e-mailing:
bill.gough@gullpondbooks.ca