World of Writing - finding the right coach for you

Do you need a writing coach?

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Coaches and editors can both improve your writing skills and make you a better writer. If you are thinking about hiring a writing coach, you need to understand what you want first and what kind of help you would like.

A good coach will help you work on yourself as an author by making your book more compelling, and help you write more honestly. Whereas an editor will help you work on your completed draft, making it more polished and your writing clearer.

If you want to finish your writing job and if you want your book to be good you need to be clear about:

• Why you are writing your book.
  
  
• Who you are writing it to.
  
  
• What you want your book to do for them.
  
  
• What you want to get out of it for yourself.

A writing coach works with an author to help them take their book to the next level, even as they write. They coach you through the process of writing your book, helping you give it your all and get better at what you do.. They help you with the emotional journey of writing your book.  They help keep you going and make your book more authentic and engaging. A coach is not an editor or a ghost writer, they do not do line-by-line editing and they will not write the copy for you.  Although some people offer both services.

A good writing coach helps you with the actual writing process.  They help you figure out:

• Why you are writing your book
  
  
• Your books positioning
  
  
• Your target audience
  
  
• The right mindset for you
  
  
• Daily or weekly writing goals
  
  
• Any fears getting in your way
  
  
• Everything else that comes with writing a book

The best coaches help with things like:

• Where your book might need to dig deeper emotionally.
  
  
• Identifying and overcoming your fears.
  
  
• Figuring out why you are stuck and breaking through writer’s block.
  
  
• Recognizing where you are sabotaging yourself.
  
  
• Helping you be authentic and effective in your writing.
  
  
• Making sure you are not leaving important things out of your book just because they would be hard for you to write.

You can benefit from both a writing coach and a editor, but you want to work with a writing coach first.

Once you have written a compelling draft in the most authentic way you possibly can; then work with an editor to polish it.

A great writing coach gets behind the text and inside your head. They will help you discover the reasons behind resistance you may have, aversions or fears and identify mistaken beliefs. To do that you have to be open-minded and willing to let the a  writing coach help and work closely with you.

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