** Summer offer – 10% discount on 3 sessions! **
- Three 1-hour online mentoring sessions
- 15,000 words of prose read (3 x up to 5,000 words) – negotiable if your work is longer/shorter than this
- Total price £175 (US $250) – a discount of 10% on my usual single-lesson prices
- All three sessions to be used by end of September
- Limited spaces available!
Looking for detailed feedback and deep discussion of your writing this summer? Book three mentoring sessions at the discounted price of £175 (US $250) and we’ll have three 1-hour mentoring sessions together to discuss three chunks of up to 5,000 words of your writing (prose fiction or non-fiction).
You could use this to blitz a section of your novel or memoir, or look at a few short stories for a collection you’re putting together. If you’re editing, we can look at redrafts of the same section – perhaps the opening or ending of your novel, or a single story – to really go deep into what’s working and what needs further thought.
My approach as a creative writing mentor is informed by the teaching I received during my Creative Writing MA and PhD, by teaching I have done myself as a qualified secondary school teacher and as an undergraduate tutor, and by my own experience over many years as a writer and also as a sponsor for recovering addicts. I find that people write best when they feel deeply connected to their work and are supported to develop their own vision – and my own successes as a writer have always come when I feel I’m writing exactly what I want to, writing the things only I could write. Sometimes this feeling can be quite subtle and difficult to access, so one of my aims while mentoring you would be to help you locate that for yourself, so you can enjoy your writing as much as possible and produce your best work.
Getting to this place might have a lot to do with conscious ‘craft’, or nothing at all; you might be writing with a view to getting published, or for another reason. My focus as a teacher will be to help you write exactly the way you want to write through us having wide-ranging discussions about your writing practice and your artistic influences, as well as more intensive focus on work you’ve sent me in advance, or looking together at writing you admire. If you find it helpful I can also set exercises for you between sessions, or let you write what comes to you.
Types of teaching
I offer:
- Mentoring sessions for 1 hour at a time, via video call, with work read in advance if you would like
- Detailed readers’ reports on a piece of prose
- Correspondence teaching
You can download my latest price list below. I offer a reduced rate for 18-25-year-olds, full-time students, and those on low incomes. If you would like to arrange tuition for a young person under 18, or for anything not listed on the price list, please get in touch using the contact form.
(Please note: the price list does not include the summer offer above.)
Rosalind Brown