How to get started
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Figuring out how to get started on and then sustain and maintain a writing project is no small task. And then figuring out what you need in order to be successful with the project? That is also no small task.
Getting started and getting clarity on needs is the kind of task that can halt our writing before it starts. Which is no small blow to our confidence. That is the worst experience.
I am happy to talk over video chat or phone to explore the question of what you need and whether or not I can be helpful. Contact me and we can easily find time.
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But if you know what you want and need, or are reasonably confident, and are curious about cost and terms of collaboration, here is a list of services and ways for us to work together. (NOTE: I am income-sensitive, so do not hesitate to reach out if you have cost concerns and want to work out pricing that accommodates your budget. Believe me, I’ve been there!)
Details: plans with cost
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Conception and Planning
$300
One of the most exciting parts of writing is imagining a project. The ideas. The key texts. Phrases and concepts and language that you’ll be using. But translating that vision into a workable project, then planning out the research and writing process to ensure its completion, is an entirely different thing. Writerly Yours works with you to not only experience the joy of envisioning an article or book, but also the satisfaction and confidence of formulating with clarity and planning with precision.
Check-In and Goal Setting
$300
One of the most important parts of successful writing is consistency. Consistency builds rhythm. Consistency helps ideas cohere. And most importantly, consistency builds word count and page count. Daily word and page count is what gets you closer to, then all the way through, your goal of a completed manuscript. We work together to begin a project, develop consistent habits, manage writerly anxiety, and build words and pages that end in a fully drafted manuscript.
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Manuscript Editing
$350+
Early drafts are the hardest to share with colleagues. We worry about being judged for poor writing, under-thought ideas, and disorganization. Yet, early drafts are when we most need coaching and assistance. Working together across phases of composition – early drafts, very rough full drafts, and further refinements – is how writing in close consultation produces the best possible project. Essay, chapter, or book.
Securing a Book Contract
$400+
The book publishing process can be opaque. In many ways, it is opaque by design: publishing a book is an art form and a political form. Articulating the timeliness of your project and placing it in front of the right people means everything. We work together to identify the right press and series, compose a compelling proposal (one of the most puzzling pieces in this process!), pitch your project to press and series editors, and submit sample work in order to secure an advance contract. An advance contract helps us write with confidence because we know the book has a landing place, and a contract looks great as part of sabbatical leave proposals, fellowship applications, and promotion dossiers.
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From Dissertation to Book
$500
A dissertation is a specialized product. With a dissertation, we prove to a committee of experts – and, through them, to the scholarly world – that we are capable of doing serious research and writing out complex ideas. A book is a very different thing. A book is where we make our contribution to a field, a tradition, and a set of concerns that matter very much to us. As a result, the dissertation can feel like a necessary grind and the book can feel like an existential trial. The book should feel like an existential trial. It is a deep expression of ourselves and our most important thoughts and values. We work together to transition the dissertation manuscript into the book project with a plan to transform the grind into a full expression of yourself as a writer, researcher, and thinker.
Finalizing the Book
$400+
Are you wrestling with a full but still somewhat rough draft of the book? Or working hard to responsibly account for referee report criticisms and recommendations? This can be a genuinely complicated moment in book writing. And these are moments in which a critical second pair of eyes on the project is immensely helpful. We can work together to complete the manuscript with refined organization, prose, and arguments that are attentive to peer criticism and recommendation, making a final submission that is pleasing to press editors and feels like your authentic voice as a writer.
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