Mentoring

I’ll say here, that I think the poem is mostly an animal. We work to tame it, to train it, but ultimately it has a mind of its own. It’s a child we’re raising, a child we birthed and are responsible for, but a child we do not “own.” […] If the poem is an animal, we are not after perfection (the thing we are after if we view it as a machine), we are after what a parent is after. We are helping the poem discover its dream. 

Terrance Hayes

• You might want a one off mentoring session in order to think about your writing goals, gain some initial feedback, and think together about how  to overcome any barriers in your way. 

• You might need mentoring sessions arranged every two months, at which you will submit six poems for feedback, in order to create deadlines to help you prioritise your writing.

•  You might be working to complete a poetry collection, and want weekly mentoring with feedback for six weeks in order to make final edits. 

• You might want to arrange sporadic mentoring to support you with sending work away for publication and thinking about what resources to tap into for support.

• You might want to send a selection of your work for critiquing and developmental feedback, with suggestions for reading.

Contact me and we can discuss a flexible arrangement for working together to support your writing.  stancercaroline@gmail.com

One to one mentoring can help with motivation and editing. Critiquing can bring a fresh pair of eyes or a new perspective to a body of work. Suggestions for further reading can deepen your understanding of writing and your own development as a writer. All my feedback will be positive, and appreciative of your work;  will recognise the effort and risk it takes to produce any creative writing; and will be offered in the spirit of you being the expert on your writing,   and the best person to decide what feedback to listen to and what to discard.