This winter, I’m delivering a 10 week writing course on how to use your own life experiences to improve your writing at Printers in Eastbourne every Monday. There are limited spaces in order to keep the course as useful and hands-on as possible, so sign up quickly to reserve your place. More details below…
I’m also offering 121 developmental feedback, coaching and editing on your own personal projects. More details below…
Raw material
An exciting new course coming soon at Printers in Eastbourne every Monday.
We’ll be looking at how we can turn our memories, diaries and photos - the raw material of our lives - into powerful stories that resonate with readers.
Why spend your time and energy making things up when you already have all the ingredients you need for a compelling and emotionally authentic story in the material of your own life?
With the demand for true life stories booming right now, there’s never been a better time to make the most of what you’ve already got inside you.
Come and learn how to write the story that only you can tell.
writing and editing support
As a highly trained reader and professional writer who has worked with industry development executives and editors for a decade, I know the value of a trained pair of eyes on something and I know what constructive helpful feedback looks like too, having been on the receiving end of it for years.
Whatever stage you’re at - whether you’re stuck in the middle of a first draft or you need some feedback pointers on where to focus when you begin the next draft or you’re feeling you’ve done all the self-editing you can but you want a polish and a ressuring double-check before you send it out to agents - I can help.
I can detect where problems may be occurring and I can suggest practical solutions for how to fix them.
I can provide practical advice on how to improve structure, strengthen storylines and flesh out characters.
I can identify where your strengths and weaknesses are and give you a revision plan on what to tackle in your next draft.
I can give you a ‘big picture’ overview, a deep-cleaning polish or an detailed analysis of the first three submission chapters.
Tell me what you need and let me help get your story into its best possible shape.
I specialise in various genres including television and theatres scripts, young adult fiction, fantasy, women’s fiction, paranormal, romance, memoirs and true life fiction, contemporary fcition, LBGTQ+, romantic comedy, self-help and self-improvement, inspirational, sex and relationships, action and adventure, new age, graphic novels and literary fiction.