Let’s talk about writing.

Get a tailored path with prompts and guidance that centers what you already know.

Book a Zoom call with Frankie. We’ll talk about some history (or non-history) of your reading/writing life, we’ll identify your obstacles, and we’ll talk about things you’ve written or dream of writing. It’s an inspiring space, totally free flowing, and you’ll come away with a road map for connecting yourself to your writing.

You don’t have to prepare anything. I’ll ask you questions to get us where we’re going.

Invest an hour in your writing dream. No one else will write what you dream of writing. It has to be you.

FREE-FLOATING CONSULTING WITH FRANKIE

We design your coaching package together!

During our free consult, we’ll talk about your intention, idea, story, poems, novel and craft your package.

You might need a day, a week, or months of reading and conversations. I’m here for it.

  • Need help getting the idea going? I will create prompts or a list for you.

  • Need visionary feedback on what you’ve written? I will show you themes, symbols, gaps, and strengths.

Whatever you need, together we will figure out how to move forward and the size and scope of a package.

(Payment installations available. )

IS THIS YOU?

  • You want someone to pay attention, be curious, and keep you company as you learn what you are writing about.

  • You have nothing written yet, just an idea in your head.

  • You have a chapter scratched out. You have a handful of poems. You have a whole book draft.

  • You want someone to remind you of the original idea when you need to remember it, or to encourage you to move past it when you need to be pushed.

  • You need deadlines, but don’t want to drown in guilt.

  • You’re beset by tiny rules that hinder you at every turn (such as, “I shouldn’t write about that,” or limiting beliefs like “I can’t write dialogue”).

  • You need someone who isn’t afraid of your experiments, who encourages you to dig deeper, trust your ideas, who reminds you to be patient, who reminds you that you own your writing and writing life.

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WHO IS FRANKIE?

Woman in green sweater sitting on floor with flying papers and a typewriter on a green trunk.

Hi. I’m Frankie. I’m a writer and a writing mentor. I love the real, tangible, important puzzle of helping you find the voice and confidence and craft you need to write the project simmering inside of you. This is so important to me that I started my own writing biz. I have time blocked out so that it’s just you and me and your writing. I will write prompts for you or listen to you read or read your work and give you feedback. I can give you a lot of powerful craft tools. I want to get you into your project with joy and support and curiosity. 

Get some Free-Floating Frankie Time in your life, including reading, and personalized prompts developed just for your project!

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKAGE?

    • Live zoom meetings with Frankie on your schedule

    • Frankie reads work ahead of time, or you read it live on a call.

    • Freely email and/or use a walkie–talkie app, Voxer, with questions about the writing life, the writing spirit, craft questions, artistic confidence wobbles, etc.

    • Set goals for the month, vast and impressive ones, realistic ones, or minimalistic ones (while being open to letting the work tell you what to do).

    • Work with Frankie to generate personalized writing prompts & other guidance for your particular project

    • Get deadlines: Schedule a Zoom meeting at intervals to create deadlines for you to think about a certain idea, submit pages, or develop questions.

    • Develop the flexibility needed by a writing life. You can send work ahead of time for Frankie to read, or read work aloud during Zoom meetings, discuss your particular obstacles, write together on Zoom, or try any ideas you have.

    • If desired, at the end of the month, write a paragraph or a page articulating any learnings from the month and get a response from Frankie.

NOT SURE YET?

The Fifth Brain Collective has several online courses, live workshops, a community membership, and more! Check out our other offerings below, and make sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on future announcements!

Celebrating New Books in the World!

We are thrilled to share two extraordinary books to be published this summer. As a writing coach, Frankie had the privilege of supporting the authors in their journeys.​

A memoir 

BACKBENDS 

by Timothy Dyke

The upcoming nonfiction exploration:

Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice 

by Eric Fischman and Lee Frankel-Goldwater​​​

As a coach and creative collaborator, Frankie offers guidance and love for the intention of the text, and she finds it deeply rewarding to see writers bring their visions to life. All of these authors did the beautiful, brave work of writing books that have an uncanny clarity of voice and freshness of vision. 

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Here’s to more voices, more books, and more creative courage. 

COACHING TESTIMONIALS

  • "Frankie taught me that everyone has a story to tell; she helped me see that writing can be my comfort when everything around me may feel unsafe. Beyond creative writing, she supported me in seeing what I could not see in myself. In all our conversations over ten years, I leave every one of them with a new lesson, a new tool to make the best decision for me. But, here is the brilliance of Frankie Rollins: she does not take an ounce of credit. Instead, she reminds me of how, all along, I possessed the tools."

    –DIANA JARAMILLO

  • "That is what Frankie Rollins is to the writer: coaxing, encouraging, electrifying, a trusted creative who generously shares her own experiences with writing, who selflessly extends her knowledge and connects with the writer's soul."

    –COURTNEY ARMSTRONG

  • ​"Frankie Rollins started a writing coaching business and published a book on writing. If you've ever read anything I've written via Facebook, chances are that Frankie helped me write it. She is the person who taught me how to effectively compose creative prose and I can't say enough about how much she's helped me!"

    –ERIC ALDRICH

  • ​"I was intimidated to write, although I had a lot to say about my special topic of interest. Frankie helped me break my concepts down into manageable chunks so that I wasn't completely overwhelmed. She also gave me great positive feedback that helped me become more confident - and most importantly, she was able to give me necessary critical feedback in a way I could hear and integrate."

    –CYANE T.

  • "Frankie Rollins is perhaps the most fiercely creative person I've ever met. Insistent, powerful, clear-visioned, focused (while still being a synthetic, integrative, possibility-fueled thinker! not the kind of reductionist/minimalist/eliminationist focus that I'm so used to), both for her own creativity and for other people's creativity."

    –HANNAH ENSOR

  • "She is not like some stern teacher who pretends to know everything (although she pretty much does). Rather, she is a mentor, a guide, someone who knows our struggles well, having experienced them herself. We are all together on this adventure of creative writing, Frankie Rollins included. ​The difference is that she has been here before. She knows the terrain, she recognizes the landmarks, and she's already climbed many of the mountains."

    –LEE FIKE

  • “I took several classes with Frankie at our local community college and fell in love with her teaching style, so I trailed her into the next phase of her career as a writing coach. Frankie is empathetic, relatable, and adept at digging out the “why” behind every author’s vision. She balances practicality and goal-setting with a gleeful passion for the written word and creative expression. I think of her as my book-baby doula—she labored right alongside me through the arduous yet illuminating journey of writing a novel."

    –SHANNON COWELL

  • "What makes Frankie the best writing teacher I’ve ever had is her intelligence, her sensitivity, and her generosity. It’s her intelligence in instantly pinpointing my strengths and weaknesses as a writer, her sensitivity in giving constructive feedback and discussing even the most vulnerable issues, and her generosity in freely giving so much of her time, energy, and advice whenever I need it. I always wrote, but it wasn’t until I started working with her that I became a writer."

    –VICTOR VALDIVIA

  • “Her superpowers go beyond creative writing into creative offerings of support and techniques to push you towards your writing goals. She is a medium for your creative energies, but she never takes away from the individuality of one's work. Frankie intertwines equity and social prosperity into her approaches. She works as a gardener of visionaries, tending and encouraging you to strive towards your sun, whatever that may be. During the times I worked under Frankie's guidance, she offered me insights, attitude adjustments, and a cultivation of confidence that helped me to become not only a better writer, but truly a kinder and more grounded person.”

    –EMMA IVY BRACK