Private Lessons
Ten Hour Program: During the course of this program, we'll cover all aspects of Emily's Foundation,℠ which will provide you with the necessary techniques to successfully complete a novel, a memoir, a children's book, or any book of fiction.
Price: $1,200
Five Hour Program: We work together in the same way as in the ten hour program, with two differences: You'll get to know me with a lesser financial commitment, and I'll focus on two aspects of your writing with which I feel we can make significant progress in our five sessions.
Price: $700
Introductory Program: This includes my reading up to fifty pages of your work and our working together for approximately two hours on the phone or in person. After this, you will have a good idea as to whether I'm the right teacher for you.
Price: $250
Price: $1,200
Five Hour Program: We work together in the same way as in the ten hour program, with two differences: You'll get to know me with a lesser financial commitment, and I'll focus on two aspects of your writing with which I feel we can make significant progress in our five sessions.
Price: $700
Introductory Program: This includes my reading up to fifty pages of your work and our working together for approximately two hours on the phone or in person. After this, you will have a good idea as to whether I'm the right teacher for you.
Price: $250
The Benefits of One-On-One Lessons
We Focus on Your Book
When you and I work together one-on-one, whether it be in person at my home in New York or on the phone from anywhere in the world, your book is the focus. Wherever you are in your book:
I’ll help you discover greater depth in your characters. I’ll inquire about them, I’ll suggest, I’ll listen and respond; but it will always be you who reveals each character with more and more nuance, more depth, makes them interesting, lovable, hateful, above all -- memorable.
When you and I work together one-on-one, whether it be in person at my home in New York or on the phone from anywhere in the world, your book is the focus. Wherever you are in your book:
- Haven’t Yet Begun
- Just Begun
- Somewhere Along the Way
- Completed, and Rewriting It
I’ll help you discover greater depth in your characters. I’ll inquire about them, I’ll suggest, I’ll listen and respond; but it will always be you who reveals each character with more and more nuance, more depth, makes them interesting, lovable, hateful, above all -- memorable.
Once your characters have become real, then they will lead you through your plot. All you have to do is come up with the basic path of the plot. (This is where you may learn to love my “What If?” technique!) Your characters will do the rest because it is they who are living the plot. Once I’m familiar with your characters, I too will pitch in with plot ideas; and if an idea resonates with you, then you and your characters will embrace it and run with it.
In the course of reacting to a scene you’ve written, I may say “Perfect!!!” Or discuss why an interaction between two characters isn’t quite true to who one of them is. Or how the scene lacks dramatic tension, and how you could easily add a dose of it. Or how the reader is missing a whole bunch of necessary information about what happened in the past, which you might want to rectify by adding a flashback scene.
Taking The Fiction Writer's Journey
Every step of our journey together – Plot and Character riding along with the Scenes – will be embedded in your book. Nothing will be abstract. In the process, because you’re doing the writing, not only is your book improving by leaps and bounds, but you as a fiction writer are also improving in ways that are solid and will be long-lasting.
When we’re finished with the Ten Hour Program, you’ll be ready to proceed with your next scenes, chapters, books, as a much better writer. Your progression as a writer will be permanent because you did it all, not I!
Every step of our journey together – Plot and Character riding along with the Scenes – will be embedded in your book. Nothing will be abstract. In the process, because you’re doing the writing, not only is your book improving by leaps and bounds, but you as a fiction writer are also improving in ways that are solid and will be long-lasting.
When we’re finished with the Ten Hour Program, you’ll be ready to proceed with your next scenes, chapters, books, as a much better writer. Your progression as a writer will be permanent because you did it all, not I!