ONE-ON-ONE WRITING COACHING
WITH FRANKIE ROLLINS
Do any of these ring true for 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.
WHY WRITE WITH FRANKIE?
She helps you find the text you want to write
She teaches you to give yourself permission to write
She removes barriers
We are marked by our living and this is our wealth, also. Frankie Rollins was a joint custody kid. Moved every two weeks for six years, and the parents moved multiple times during this period. Frankie woke up more mornings than not wondering what the backyard looked like. She used to think this made her a mess. A failure. Someone who would never find steadiness inside herself.
As a working writer, she knows the difficulties and joys of writing intimately. But she never forgets that each writer's path is singular. Author of Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence, The Grief Manuscript, and The Sin Eater and Other Stories, Frankie understands the transformative power of writing, both for the writer and for their someday readers. She converses with writers with an unflagging radiant warmth, because she knows every one of them carries a knowledge bank so specific that no one else on the entire planet has one like it. She's the kind of mentor who turns overwhelm into momentum.
Writers must learn the obstacles and dreams that entrap or release them. Frankie has spent years developing the ways to help writers move authentically, confidently, and joyously into the work anyway.
As Frankie always says to people worried that it’s “too late” to start writing, You ain’t dead yet.
She was wrong. She was developing strengths. Once she moved toward her passion, she found a steadiness so reliable and sublime it became her whole career. Originally advertising her classes with a sandwich board at a farmer’s market in 2001, Frankie Rollins has taught creative writing in import stores, living rooms, coffeeshops, florists, K-12 classrooms, and college classrooms, traditional and online.
Now she's the founder of Fifth Brain Collective, and she doesn't just teach writing, she beckons it. Frankie leads vibrant membership meetings, hosts experimental webinars, and in 1-1 coaching, maps the path with a writer toward their writing dream.
BENEFITS OF WRITING COACHING
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Live zoom meetings with Frankie on your schedule
Frankie reads work ahead of time, or you read it live on a call.
Freely email with questions about the writing life, the writing spirit, craft questions, artistic confidence wobbles, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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.
MONTHLY COACHING PACKAGES
A Quick Jolt
Get the golden zap of a reader’s love and hunger for your writing and a knowledgeable reader /companion/guide.
This monthly coaching package includes:
2 Zoom meetings with Frankie per month. For these meetings, you have the option to send up to 10 pages for her to read ahead of time. During these conversations, you can read in person to Frankie, write together to a prompt, or use the time to discuss your project/fears/stuck places, talk about structure, craft, etc.
Writing Boss & Nurturer
Get the joy of being in the pleasure of the writing work and conversation with a guide willing to explore and expand your thinking in any direction the writing takes you.
This monthly coaching package includes
4 Zoom meetings with Frankie per month. During these conversations, you can read in person to Frankie, write together to a prompt, or use the time to discuss your project/fears/stuck places, talk about structure, craft, etc. (No additional reading time is included in this package aside from what you read aloud during the weekly zoom meeting.)
Uniquely developed prompts for your text.
Email access for sudden anxieties about the writing and writing life
Sustained Companionship
Get the steady company of an experienced reader and writer inside your project with you, so you are never facing the crossroads alone.
This monthly coaching package includes:
4 Zoom meetings with Frankie per month. You can send up to 10 pages between sessions for feedback. During these conversations, you can read in person to Frankie, write together to a prompt, or use the time to discuss your project/fears/stuck places, talk about structure, craft, etc.
You have access to emailing about writing life, questions of craft, specific lines or sections.
Structured set of deadlines to keep the flow going.
COACHING TESTIMONIALS
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