The Writer’s Roadmap
1:1 Mentoring for Development and Momentum
Providing Clarity, Structure, and Support.
Meaningful writing can be hard to shape when you’re too close to the material.
Maybe you have a clear project underway—a memoir, essay collection, public-facing academic project, presentation, or body of work—and need help shaping it into a stronger, more coherent whole.
Or you might have fragments, drafts, notes, or meaningful material that needs structure, refinement, and a clear path forward.
What can help most is someone with an outside perspective who can recognize what is taking shape, help you strengthen what is already working, and create a clear path for carrying the project forward.
That’s what these 1:1 sessions are for.
I bring decades of experience in the creative process, mentoring writers, facilitating workshops, and training professionals in the craft of story.
Working together, I will customize a journey that holds your project vision in mind and provides a path forward with the amount of structure, accountability, and support needed to work with your life and goals right now.
“Through our VIP Session and the Roadmap, I have been able to take years of writing and shape it into a cohesive collection. Since starting with her, I have shared my work at literary festivals and been in several publications. Without her, I would still be circling. The clarity and momentum from our time together shifted everything.” — Julia Clebsch, Retired NPS Ranger, Writer, Naturalist
Formats Offered
Choose from a full-day intensive to a monthly accountability and support.
Roadmap VIP Intensive
This is a powerful kickstart to get going on a stalled project or bring all the fragments of your writing together. If clear plan for your next steps, this session will give you a roadmap for your next steps and project direction.
About the Roadmap Monthly Momentum
If you’re ready to hit the road and want meaningful support, accountability, and feedback, this is where you gain and keep momentum so the deeper work can unfold.
Book a Discovery Call:
The best first step is often a short conversation. We’ll talk about where you are in your writing, what kind of support would be most useful, and whether this feels like the right fit for the road ahead.
How the Sessions Unfold
1. Begin with a Discovery Call
We begin with a short conversation to look at your project, where you are in the process, and what kind of support would be most useful.
Some writers arrive with a clear project. Others need help assessing existing material and choosing the strongest direction. This conversation helps determine the best fit.
2. Assess the Writing Landscape
We start with a kickoff session. You bring what exists—drafts, notes, essays, fragments, research, or project ideas.
Together, we look at the full landscape of the work: what feels strong, what feels unfinished, where momentum has stalled, and what larger arc may be emerging. I listen for structure, coherence, narrative integrity, and the deeper themes shaping the work.
3. Build the Support Structure
Meaningful writing requires more than ideas. We also look at the process and define what supports your writing, what gets in the way, what accountability helps, and what kind of structure will best support the work moving forward.
4. Create a Realistic Roadmap
From there, we design a concrete plan for the next phase of your work. This may include: writing priorities, milestones, revision goals, accountability rhythm, and strategic next steps
The goal is meaningful progress built around the realities of your actual life and writing practice.
Writer’s Roadmap VIP Intensive
6 hours | Zoom or in person | $1,350
A focused intensive for writers who need immersion, clarity, and a concrete plan.
In one immersive day, we map the full landscape of your material, ideas, writing, or project. We identify the strongest threads, clarify what matters most, and shape a clear plan for what comes next.
This intensive can support you to:
Organize drafts, fragments, notes, or ideas, and see the larger arc of your work
Identify the strongest themes and through-lines to clarify structure, direction, and priorities
Assess what is complete, what needs development, and where the gaps are
Get a realistic 90-day roadmap for meaningful progress
This can be especially powerful when you need help seeing full picture of what you are working on, for finding what’s working, what structure it needs, what themes are emerging, and how to move it forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Includes:
✓ Pre-session intake and reflective guidebook
✓ 6 hours for strategic mapping of your material, ideas, or project
✓ Customized next steps plan
Available online or at your location. Also available at my office in Western Massachusetts.
Questions? Book a Discovery Call
“I have extensive experience writing academic articles and chapters, but very little opportunity for creative writing. I have not written this much—or this easily—in over 30 years. The classes are supportive while keeping us actively writing, and they allow each participant to engage at a pace that fits their life.” — Jeanne Stanley, Ph.D., Psychologist & Graduate School Consultant
Roadmap Monthly Momentum
Monthly Mentorship | $650 per month
Ongoing mentorship for writers who want sustained support in developing meaningful work.
This is where ideas become drafts, fragments become structure, and projects move forward.
This can support you to:
✓ develop a writing project, essay, memoir, collection, presentation, or body of work
✓ receive focused feedback and experienced guidance
✓ strengthen structure, coherence, voice, and direction
✓ maintain accountability and steady progress
Together, we work with your writing, ideas, process, and pace. Depending on your needs, this may include project development, revision support, writing feedback, accountability, structural refinement, or strategic planning.
Includes:
✓ 30-minute kick-off session
✓ Two 60-minute mentoring sessions per month for review, refinement, and strategic guidance
✓ Clear next steps after each session
✓ Weekly accountability aligned with your pace and project
Questions? Email Erica →
Book a Discovery Call →
Start with a Conversation
Deep work benefits from experienced guidance, thoughtful structure, and an outside perspective. If you’re wondering whether this is the right fit, the best next step is a short conversation. We can talk about your writing, your process and your challenges. Just this free conversation can often bring shifts, clarity, and insights.
