ONE-ON-ONE WRITING COACHING

You + Your Content + Your Writing Dream = My Favorite Puzzle 

I don’t love crosswords because they don’t feel meaningful enough to me. What I love is this real, tangible puzzle of helping you find the voice and confidence and craft you need to write the project burning inside of you. This is so important to me that I started my own writing biz. Now it’s just you and me and your writing. I want to get you into your project with joy and support and curiosity.

We start with a free consult, and we can talk about the sketchiest dreams of writing, or we will talk about your almost finished book. We will always celebrate your desire to write, your will to write, and your right to write. 

Hourly rate for Zoom consults, reading, and personalized prompts developed just for your project! 

COACHING PACKAGES

3 Week Exploratory Writing Package

Have a vague sense of a writing project you want to create? I will help you take the first steps. We open with a mapping call, where I ask you questions to find the project you are interested in writing. Next, I’ll send you prompts designed uniquely for your idea. You write in a blaze of exploration, giving yourself lots of permission to try anything. You send me the pages you’ve written, and I read them and email a second set of prompts made for you. We meet for an hour on Zoom conversation, and talk about your pleasures, difficulties, and the next steps.

3 Week Cycle includes: 2 Zoom Conversations with Frankie, up to 10 pages of reading, 2 sets of prompts= $999

6 Week Writing Project Package

Have a baby start or a great start, but you don’t know where to take it from here? Let’s look at the impulse that got you to this point and figure out where to go next. I’ll read the sections you have written. Next, I’ll send you prompts designed uniquely for your idea. You suffer a bout of uncanny writing joy as the prompts reinvigorate the material, and you have a flurry of fresh ideas. You send me the new pages you’ve written, gush to me about new ideas, and I read them and create a second set of prompts made for you along with any craft tips you need for development. We meet for an hour on Zoom conversation, setting up a structure for you to continue working on your own.

 Up to 30,000 word Manuscript

 

6 Week Cycle includes: 3 Zoom conversations with Frankie, up to 30,000 words of reading, 2 sets of prompts, Specific Craft Element Lessons, Email Access= $1499

8 Week Whole Book Review Package

You’ve drafted a book, maybe a few friends or family members have read it, but you can no longer see it or perceive it, because it’s been inside you too long, or you’ve revised it so many times, or you have a list of worries about it, and you need a knowledgeable mentor to lead you into your own book.

In this cycle, I will read the book, write you a book description, answer a list of specific questions or concerns and offer a review of elements such as structure, character development, point of view, dialogue, themes, etc. I will provide direction on craft elements that need to be sharpened and create a set of specific tasks to direct you into your next draft.

Up to around 80,000 word Manuscript

8 Week Cycle Includes: 4 Zoom conversations with Frankie, 1 Entire Book Reading and Response, Craft/Plot/Hole Development Prompts, Book Description, Next Steps, Email Access= $2299

Listen to Frankie’s Coaching Journey on the Great Things Podcast

Overcoming Fear and Embracing Creativity

A significant part of Frankie’s coaching involves helping writers overcome common fears such as impostor syndrome and the fear of being selfish. She encourages writers to give themselves permission to write and highlights the therapeutic benefits of creative expression.

“People often struggle with the fear of being selfish. They don’t realize that spending time on their creativity is a boon to the rest of us. The more people think, understand, and reflect, the better community members they become,” she says.

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