Based on the response I’ve been receiving from my interviews on FILM COURAGE (Take a look!), I started coaching one-on-one with three motivated storytellers about managing their creative minds. One of them is already a Story Merchant representation client, one an apprentice screenwriter, and one a complete stranger who’d seen one of my online interviews with Film Courage.

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• One wants to learn how she can avoid the creative blues and stay motivated during these troubling times.

• One wants to know more about dealing with his creative process, to make himself more productive and less frustrated.

• The third wants to know how she could balance her writing time with her busy mom and work-for-money schedule—and what her odds of succeeding were.

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But the first words I heard from all three of them was, “Thank you for doing this,” which made me realize how much I missed my years in the classroom at Occidental College, UCLA, or the NYC Yale Club, when I could interact directly with students’ concerns and challenges—in courses like “Dealing with Rejection,” “Keeping Your Spirits Up,” “How to Deal with the Waiting,” “Finding Time to Write,” and many others.

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To anyone who invests in their careers by working with me this way, I say, “Thank YOU for giving yourself the support that you need to accomplish your dreams.”

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For novelists, screenwriters, nonfiction writers, here are some issues we deal with:

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• The uses of anxiety.

• Can a writer be happy?

• Avoiding negative reinforcement.

• Slumps.

• Procrastination.

• Are you a Type C personality?  What is a Type C?

• What to do while you’re waiting.

• How to deal with rejection.

• Calculating the odds of success.

• Managing time and work.

• Steps of the creative process.

• Attention span and the “right compartment.”

• Using linkage to avoid re-start energy.

• The kinds of time.

• Time to schedule time.

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Here’s how it works:

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• You sign up for interactive coaching for this four month 1-on-1 program

• We send you a brief contract outlining the terms.

• Once you’re signed, you’ll be contacted to set up our first exploratory session. Here, we can discuss your goals, what you’re working on, and/or your current struggles.

• We meet for 30-45-minute session (by phone OR video) to understand where you are in your process, what challenges you’re facing, etc.

• I give you your first assignment.

• Once you deliver your first assignment, we schedule a 15-minute coaching session, in which you get your next assignment.

• For the four months, we meet for as many 15-minute sessions you need to achieve your goals, setting a new meeting each time you achieve your goal!

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If you’re wrestling with any of the above, or anything else to do with your writing, and you feel you could use some expert guidance, this four-month one-on-one Master Coaching service may be perfect for you.