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Define Your Lines
Find, Define, and Refine YOUR Lines
Redefine your relationship with writing. Find and define your lines. Polish and refine those lines so as to bring what YOU want to say into being.
- Struggling to put words to page? In your voice?
- Working across disciplinary, genre, research, or other boundaries and worried about it connecting with your audience?
- Academic written English not your thing? Struggling to focus on message/content and not just grammar?
As a PhD in Education, English teacher educator, and veteran secondary English and English as an Additional Language teacher, I would love to help you stake a claim and put your voice to the page.
Whether it be cultivating a sustainable writing practice, writing across fields and navigating unwritten expectations, or refining and polishing your academic written English, the world needs to hear what YOU have to say. I help you find, define, and refine those lines, doing it in a way that gets you seen and heard the way you want to be.
editing services for writers
define
This is a classic developmental edit. I provide feedback on the conceptual, structural, and stylistic development of your ideas and
writing.
All manuscripts up to 10k words
Request proposal for manuscripts less than 5k.
CHF 1250
refine
This is a classic copy edit.
Includes polish and shine of grammar and spelling, sentence construction, word choice, references, footnotes, and formatting.
*Inclusive of an optional 30-minute coaching session to discuss suggestions that will most improve your writing.
All manuscripts up to 10k words
Request proposal for manuscripts less than 5k.
CHF 1500
coaching + editing services for writers
Single Session
Use this session to find, define, or refine your lines in whatever way feels most suited to your current project or ongoing writing goals. Untie a knot; find a new project; get your thought process and ideas mirrored back to you for greater perspective and clarity. Perhaps you want to break down grammatical components of your writing so as to more easily understand the editing feedback you receive and avoid common pitfalls in the future! This is a focused strategy session on a topic of your choosing.
Single Session
CHF 220
Book one or more 60 minute sessions as flexibly as you wish.
FIND
You are looking to cultivate and build a sustainable writing habit! You are hoping for accountability, ideas, and a straightforward process of experimenting with new ideas and techniques that build on what works for you!
This 6-week package is designed to be a taster of what is possible when cultivating a sustainable writing habit. It gives you space to experiment with various approaches and then build and grow the very habits that will support you in cultivating a long-term, sustainable writing
routine. Putting repeatable, enjoyable, and successful foundational pieces in place will propel you to build toward and commit to specific writing products.
FIND includes access to a curated list of resources to nurture your experimentation with sustainable writing habits and to grow the set of techniques you bring to your own writing practice.
6 weeks (no check in)
CHF 1500
6 meetings
45 min sessions
6 weeks (with check ins)
CHF 2000
6 meetings
45 min sessions
WhatsApp daily accountability check ins
FIND + DEFINE
This 3-month package is meant to help you find and develop a bridge connecting your daily, sustainable writing habits to specific writing outcomes. Perhaps you want to write a non-fiction essay or a magazine article. We will (roughly) use the first 6 weeks to establish and/or shore up your daily writing habits and move when ready (this varies by writer and project) into adding the developmental coaching and editing required to brainstorm and begin drafting your specific writing product.
In the developmental stages, drafts of writing can be shared , drafts of writing can be shared 2 days in advance of meetings for feedback, written and in person during weekly meetings. This feedback is strictly conceptual in orientation and not copy editing (ie, grammar) oriented. Our goal in the second six weeks is to start bringing emerging ideas into being. We will consider form, tone, and style consistent with your writing goals and audience. As we define your ideas in the context of the product, we will continue to revise and tweak your daily writing routines to best support your ongoing writing goals and projects.
FIND + DEFINE will also come with access to a curated list of resources to nurture your experimentation with sustainable writing habits and to grow the set of techniques you bring to your own writing practice in the find and define stages of writing.
3 months
CHF 3500
Weekly meetings
60 min sessions
WhatsApp support for daily accountability + twice weekly (10-20 minute)
question and response feedback
DEFINE + REFINE
This 3-month package is meant to help you develop the specific ideas related to a single writing project and see it through to a first complete draft, including the polish and shine of a full grammatical copy edit. In addition to your weekly coaching sessions, ongoing drafts can be
shared for developmental editing feedback and a final copy edit will be provided.
The amount of time needed for this clearly depends upon the scale and scope of your project, but at a minimum, we schedule 3 months for both the developmental aspects of the project and a thorough polish and shine, or, in other words, a full grammatical copy edit.
Developmental editing will come in the form of both written and in-person feedback while and full copy edit will conclude our process.
3 months
chf 3500
Weekly meetings
60 min sessions
“educational editing” add-on available
WhatsApp support for daily accountability + twice weekly (10-20 minute) question and response feedback
FIND + DEFINE + REFINE
The Big Kahuna of coaching and editing support packages, this one does it all! Take the time to ease into and/or refine (perhaps even transition between projects) the daily writing routines that will support a sustainable relationship with your writing as you work through BOTH the developmental and editing stages. The amount of time needed for this clearly depends upon the scale and scope of your project, but at a minimum, we schedule 6 months to prepare for the developmental aspects of the project, create and organize your ideas and plans, draft the product, and finish it with a thorough polish and shine, or, in other words, a full grammatical copy edit.
This 6-month package is meant to help you find and develop the type of writing routine needed to nurture your specific writing goal all of the way through to the end! It includes bridging your daily, sustainable writing habits to the ideation and drafting stages of your specific writing product. It involves multiple coaching sessions and 1-2 rounds of developmental edits on the entire draft before the 1-2 rounds of copy editing on your final versions.
6 months
chf 5000
Weekly meetings
60 min sessions
“educational editing” add-on available
WhatsApp support for daily accountability + thrice weekly (10-20 minute) question and response feedback
The BOOST!: Writing package extensions
Take it over the finish line! Your project end up being bigger than the time you planned? With the writing package extensions, we “boost” the window of your project completion to accurately reflect the scope of your project. The Boost will be proposed based on the size and scale of your goals and project. Let’s chat if this feels relevant to you.
1 month
Cost: 800
4 weekly meetings
60 min sessions
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Frequently asked questions
What kind of writers do you work with?
I work with a variety of writers, including emerging writers; those wanting to build a sustainable and enjoyable writing practice; professionals; and academic writers and researchers.
Do you work with writers for whom English is an additional language?
Absolutely. In fact, this is one of my favorite kinds of writers! Years of experience as an expat have taught me the courage EAL writers muster every day, and my years of teaching advanced EAL academic writing helps me hone in on the strategic changes each writer can make to make the biggest inroads on learning to quickly refine and polish their own academic English writing.
What about writers crossing disciplinary and methodological boundaries?
I am so glad you asked! I, myself, write humanities-oriented research in the social science-dominant field of Education. I know (and love) Chicago style, but also know APA and MLA extremely well.
What if I know I want to write but am unsure of what or how to proceed?
This is a phenomenon not uncommon to most writers! Whether it be time away, busy-ness in other aspects of life, or changing directions entirely, writers evolve and change. That’s a good thing! Yes, we can “find” your way through and into writing again.
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