There Is No Muse

Coaching & Consulting

Offerings

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    Creativity & Writing Coaching

    Personalized coaching for writers, creatives, and anyone seeking to rediscover their creativity.

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    Manuscript Consulting

    Feedback on your manuscript based on your own artistic vision and aesthetic. Includes a 1:1 meeting and an editorial letter.

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    Organizational Consulting

    Customized, project-based consulting for organizations and businesses.

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Creativity & Writing Coaching

All creatives need guidance. Throughout my career as a writer, I’ve been blessed with incredible mentors and peers. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them. It’s my honor to pay this gift forward by guiding and championing other creatives.

Whether you are in the midst of a long-term project, or wanting to rediscover your love for an art, I’ll coach you through blocks, downward spirals, second-guesses, and dizzying triumphs so that you can feel happy, determined, and confident in your creative work.

Want to see if we’re a good fit? Contact me for a free 15-minute trial session.

The rate for a personalized creativity toolkit and a 45-minute coaching session is $185. You’ll receive:

  • A preliminary questionnaire with reflection exercises that will help us both identify your desires, values, worldview, aesthetics, self-care needs, and goals. I’ll use this questionnaire to design your toolkit and coaching session.

  • 3-5 creative prompts personalized for your challenges and interests. These prompts may involve writing, doodling, photography, experiential learning, and mind/body meditations.

  • A list of 5-10 resources and reading materials, curated especially for you, that will inspire your work and help you overcome obstacles.

  • 45-minutes of 1:1 guidance from an accomplished writer and professor who teaches at Northwestern University and StoryStudio, a creative writing center.

After the introductory toolkit and session, subsequent 45-minute coaching sessions are $95.

Please note that coaching is separate from manuscript consultations.

Manuscript Consultations

As a manuscript consultant, I help your writing grow into the vision you have for it. Consulting sessions begin with a few questions about your manuscript, where you think it currently stands, and your ambitions for your work. Based on your answers and after carefully reading your piece, I will give you collaborative feedback on how you can take your manuscript to the next level.

I’m a voracious reader who loves something from every genre and style, although I’m especially partial to character-driven literary fiction, liminal fantasy, stories with a deep sense of place, and personal essays. You can read some of my own work here. I enjoy helping writers who’ve faced rejection or who are working on an MFA portfolio.

The rate for a manuscript consultation is $150 per hour. If you include a manuscript consultation as an add-on to a coaching session, it is $75 per hour. You’ll receive:

  • A brief questionnaire that identifies the goals and concerns you have for your manuscript, as well as your values and aesthetics as a writer.

  • An editorial letter with feedback based on the vision you have for your work.

  • Line edits on the manuscript to increase meaning, beauty, and clarity.

  • A 1:1 twenty-minute debrief to ask any questions about the feedback and next steps.

  • Insight and guidance from an accomplished published fiction writer, essayist, and teacher who has taught at Northwestern University and StoryStudio, a creative writing center.

Organizational Consulting

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