Writing Coach

Work closely with Alida to improve your goal-specific writing skills.
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How a Writing Coach Can Help You

Coaching entails seeing you through the writing process. I’ll help you identify and clear the hurdles between where you are and where you want to get. Together, we’ll structure a plan that ensures your progress while helping you balance and manage your writing life with the rest of your life. When you commit to the coaching process, I commit to you.

My goal is to help you reach your writing goals.

What Are Your Goals?

Fiction or non-fiction, if there is narrative involved, you could benefit from a writing coach.
Set and accomplish writing goals with the support and accountability provided by live coaching.
Focus on specific elements of craft. Unlike in a book or video course, you get live, in-person feedback on your progress.
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Clear communication begins with craft, whether you’re telling a story set worlds away or selling an idea through a business blog, you need to shape your words to move your readers.
Work through an entire project with an objective and skilled mentor.
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Sessions are designed to address your objectives, questions, and progress, while bringing you closer to your end goal.

What Happens in a Coaching Session?

Sessions will vary depending on our goal for the day, but always I listen, share my knowledge, provide feedback, and prompt you to find your own answers.

Watch the two-minute video below for a glimpse into a one-on-one nonfiction coaching session.

Are you ready to begin?

Fiction Group Coaching

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New session begins May 2023.

Nonfiction Group Coaching

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Individual Coaching

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Fiction, Nonfiction, or Both?

I am an award-winning author, editor, teacher, and podcaster. You may be aware that I can teach you storycraft, but do you know that I also work with nonfiction writers from self-help books to blog posts to business email chains?

I’m both right-brained and left-brained, merging a deep appreciation for and skillset with both creativity and structure. An expert at clear communication, I bring my background in academia, the arts, and my own business experience to all the work I do as an editor, coach, and teacher.

I have a varied background in biology, anthropology, interdisciplinary studies, theatre, and creative writing. This right-left balance was apparent in my undergraduate years when I graduated in four years, including six-months of study abroad, with a double major in anthropology and theatre. Science and art have always been driving passions of mine.

I earned a Master of Liberal Studies interdisciplinary degree from the University of Minnesota in 2009. Once again, unable to choose between my passions, I took courses in anthropology and pursued a minor in Complementary and Alternative Therapies. I wrote a hybrid thesis, part historical biography, part novella. I was offered a fellowship to an anthropology PhD program, which I turned down to finally be fully a writer. I earned my Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Hamline University in 2012. I’ve been a solo-entrepreneur ever since.

I bring diverse experience with both fiction and nonfiction to all of the work I do with writers.

Let’s chat about your coaching goals.

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A writing coach is a highly skilled, objective, dedicated mentor.

The best writing coach for you will be someone you can have a professional relationship with, who will assist you with goals and accountability, has an understanding of writing craft and English usage, and will commit to guiding your individual journey to better communication.
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