I wear a lot of hats, around here.
I work as a professional writer, editor, illustrator and communications consultant for businesses and a mentor for other working writers.
I’d love to work with you too.
If you have any questions about the services I offer, I’d love to take a minute to chat with you about the process, after you take a look at my offerings packages.
I wear a lot of hats, around here.
I work as a professional writer, editor, illustrator and communications consultant for businesses and a mentor for other working writers.
I’d love to work with you too.
If you have any questions about the services I offer, I’d love to take a minute to chat with you about the process, after you take a look at my offerings packages.
Writing is a lonely road. The irony of trying to communicate the human experience - while staying isolated enough to actually do the thing - is not lost on me.
My Experience and background
You’re not alone. I’ve been doing this work for nearly twenty years, and I’ve got a plan to help you.
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Educator
- Public Secondary school English teacher,
- Private school writing curriculum designer, resource developer, and program facilitator,
- Online, in person, and on-screen workshop presenter and speaker
Writing
Editing
Project Management
Consulting
Education and Professional Associations
- 2007: B.A. in English Literature and Canadian History
- 2009: B. Education
- *2024: Professional Publishing Certificate
- Professional Writers Association of Canada: Former Member
- Writers’ Federation of NB: active member
- Editors’ Association of Canada: active member
How my program works
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I’ve learned - in all of that time and on all of those projects - that there are five pillars every writer must maintain in order to write well and with professional integrity.
This is true in academic writing, trade fiction, creative non-fiction, journalism, writing for screen, and more. Anywhere we try to purposefully wrangle words into something that can sensibly communicate to others, we need to do it while maintaining and accessing these five things.
01
Purpose
This is about who you are, who you are talking to, and why they need to hear your message.
It is your North Star - guiding your direction and choices - and it will keep you going when your voice cracks, or a heckler interrupts, or the stage under your feet quakes.
02
Practice
Your Practice is what you do every day (on purpose) as a writer, to keep your voice clear and developing - and ready to shout, or cry, or sing.
This is how you build the muscle, stamina, and range of your writing voice. Do NOT skip this.
03
Process
Every good writing process has the same basic components, but no two writers have exactly the same Process.
Because we need to make it work for us, and the way we think and live, so that when we arrive at the page, we are in control and ready to go.
04
Projects
So, now that you have a voice that’s ready to burst out of you, and you’ve developed a process to get from idea to a finished thing, what are you going to work on? And who do you need to talk to to help you with it? And which one of these ideas should you even start with?!
And and AND…..
Project management isn’t sexy, but it’s necessary.
05
Platform
You need a place where your people can find you - a place from which your voice can carry to those people who want and need to hear it, and a place you can invite other voices to join yours.
Your platform can be a soapbox on the street corner, an auditorium with velvet seats and cigars, or a pirate radio microphone with world-wide reach.
Build the right one(s) for you - and your message.
These five foundations all need something constant in the background - a clear and flexible plan that will work for you, your creative partners and priorities, and the purpose you serve.
Develop your Practice
Design your Process
Unstick your project
Digital Writing Retreats
Join me and a handful of writerly friends on a
Digital writing retreat
Writing is a lonely road!
The irony of trying to communicate the complex human experience - while staying isolated from that experience in order to actually do the work - is not lost on me.
I struggle with that loneliness as a writer far more than any other aspect of the work we do.
The importance of finding and nurturing a safe writing community can’t be overstated, but it’s hard to organize.
Writing Coach Packages
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Practice
- Interactive Client Portal
- 5-Step Writing Practice Review
- Skills & Traits Assessment
- Custom 6-Month Program
- Weekly Free-Writing Prompts
- Monthly Assignment and 1-on-1 Writing Workshop
Project management
- Interactive Client Portal
- Publishing Process Review
- Project Management Notion Database Template
- Concierge Database Migration
- Projected Timeline and Production Schedule
- Team Management Expectations, Checklists, and Scripts for Effective Communication
- 2 Monthly Project Meetings
Process
- Interactive Client Portal
- Writing Process Review
- Goals and Needs Assessment
- Custom 6-Month Program
- Weekly Quick-Write Prompts
- Monthly Assignment and 1-on-1 Writing Workshop
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