The Mindful Writing Mentoring program runs on a school calendar from September/October to May/June. Enrollment opens in August, and continues until March. Depending on the application process, mentoring typically starts on the 1st of the month. There is a three-month initial commitment for mentoring.

If your writing mentoring application is approved, you will receive an email from Jenn about scheduling a free 20-minute discovery call to talk about the possibility of working together.

If you and Jenn choose to leap into mentoring, you will receive a mentoring agreement, an invoice, and a link to schedule an onboarding call. When the agreement is signed and your first payment is received, your first month of mentoring will be scheduled for the upcoming month.

Reviewing the writing mentoring application, scheduling a discovery call, and onboarding could take two to three weeks.

My highly customized 1:1 mentoring program costs $999 per month, and a initial commitment of 3-month is required for new mentees, totaling $2,997.

After the 3-month commitment, mentees can choose to continue on a monthly recurring basis.

No previous writing experience is necessary, but mentees will be asked to invest time, energy and effort into learning the craft of writing.

The recommendation is to allocate 10-12 hours a week to active writing and non-writing-but-relevant tasks such as story research and idea-generation time. Ten hours a week has helped me create a sustainable and repeatable writing practice for many years.

Writing terms and lingo will be explained, but additional research beyond the mentoring calls may be needed to deepen your understanding of the writing process. Sometimes, additional resources, such as books or websites, may be recommended.

During the writing mentoring application, you are asked to provide some general details about your book, premise statement and your writing goals and desires. Your answers will be the groundwork for our mentoring sessions. They will form the foundation of your customized mentoring program and help us both create and navigate your monthly writing map.

The 1:1 Mindful Writing Mentoring programs requires a three-month initial commitment at the cost of $2,997; payment can be made in full or automatically billed on a monthly basis.

Mentees have the option to renew the 1:1 mentorship monthly thereafter. By default, mentees are renewed and billed automatically on the 1st of each month for the month ahead. You are welcome to stay in the mentoring program as long as you need writing support and also at the discretion of Jenn's expertise and intuition.

Cancellations and stop-payment notifications must be made in writing by email by or before the 20th of the month to avoid charges for the coming month.

No refunds will be issued.

A kick-off call will be scheduled soon after acceptance into the mentoring program.

Each mentoring month starts on the 1st day of each month.

The first Zoom check-in "What are you writing this month?" occurs during the first week of the month.

One 3,000-word written piece, submitted as a Word document, is due on the 10th of each month.

Submission feedback is sent back to the mentee by the 17th of the month.

The second Zoom call to review the monthly submission and plan the following month's writing goals occurs during the third week of the month

Group drop-in office hours via Voxer text and voice messages usually occurs on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.

Always On My Way "Take Your Seat and Create" co-working calls are on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

CET/Europe/Barcelona time is the default time for all calls.

The monthly mentoring program runs roughly on a school calendar for 8 or 9 months, from September or October to May or June, depending on the year.

There is 3-month initial commitment for new mentees, and the program has an optional monthly renewal after that.

Typically, there is no 1:1 mentoring from the end of June to mid-September, when Jenn, a lover of the natural world and a nomad at heart, takes an extended seasonal break for self-care, global travel and family visits.

Mentees are encouraged to use this seasonal mentoring break to continue writing on their own; rewrite existing chapters; fact-check their story; research aspects of the story needing additional info, or, like Jenn take much-needed time off to enjoy life and actively daydream about next steps.

1:1 Mindful Writing Mentoring includes 2 one-on-one mentoring calls per month. Zoom video and audio recordings + Otter-AI transcription notes are provided during these calls.

• Call 1 is a 55-minute Zoom call to check-in on, clarify your writing process and to discuss what you are working on for the month. These calls are scheduled during the first week of each month (Monthly written submissions are due by the 10th day of each month).
  

• Call 2 is scheduled in the later part of the month after you submit your 3,000-word story/chapter/essay. These in-depth 55-minute mentoring/editing feedback calls via Zoom are scheduled during the third week of each month. They aim to: Supplement and complement the written feedback on your monthly story submission; strengthen your “show, don’t tell” storytelling techniques; improve the book's development and structure, and offer next-step ideas for the coming month.

This is really up to you. I know people who have completed 50,000-word first-draft manuscripts in less than 90 days. I know other people who are plugging away one chapter at a time for years or working incremently over the course of many months.

Each person has their own creative flow and seasons when they are more or less inspired to write. Book writing and book rewriting takes the time it takes. While I will help hold you accountable, it's up to you to set a self-imposed deadline to achieve certain milestones and create a pace that feels comfortable, easeful and successful to you.

Generally, I recommend that my mentees carve out and schedule 10-12 hours a week for both the writing and non-writing tasks associated with manuscript-making. This builds up a habit of writing, story planning and researching in dedicated blocks of time.

No. I am a writer, editor, mentor and an accountability partner. I am not a publisher. But, I will guide you towards writing a manuscript that is soul-filling and ready for publishing. I will point you towards indie publishers who can help you bring your book to life and distribute it on various platforms like Amazon and IngramSpark.