For Writers
Whether you're an academic, blogger, creative writer, strategy document producer, or PhD researcher, WriteHere, RightNow invites you into a new relationship with your writing. It will enable you to write in ways that are productive, sustainable and in balance with the rest of your life.
I developed the WriteHere, RightNow method through coaching writers and it has been used by many, many writers to overcome the multiple pitfalls and struggles they face, both practically and emotionally.
The method works at three levels:
- Establishing an effective writing practice while getting writing done
- Sustaining motivation and overcoming barriers (including ‘the imposter’)
- Exploring: who are you as a writer
I work with writers through one-to-one coaching, live coaching writing retreats, my Summer WriteClub, and also via my audio programme.
This is unique live coaching format, combining the space of a writing retreat with the provocation of live coaching experiments to enhance and sustain an effective writing experience.
Suitable for anyone who needs or wants to write.
This is an online coaching programme over 3 months for anyone wanting to create a productive, sustainable process of writing and establish a more effective, balanced experience of writing.
Suitable for anyone who needs or wants to write.
Pulling together the core principles from my live coaching writing retreats, the WriteHere, RightNow
audio programme is a self-directed course for you to work through at your own pace, designed to get you writing straight away.
WriteHere, RightNow feedback
Live Coaching Writing Retreat
“Wonderful – well delivered, organised, effective, thought-provoking and fun. Delivered aims, met my objectives.” (University of Liverpool)
“Enlightening, empowering, thought-provoking, confidence inspiring.”) North Academic Research Training Initiative)
“This was the most worthwhile event I’ve attended.” (Lancaster University)
Summer WriteClub
“Amazing, inspirational, motivational and dare I say life-changing (and affirming).” (Writer)
“Just thanks to Will and everyone else in the group for the supportive atmosphere, helpful suggestions and the ability to make even bad writing weeks seem much better after each call! I think my attitude towards writing has really shifted this summer, and become much healthier, and that’s had a big impact on my day-to-day work life.” (Researcher)
“I’ve attended a few writing retreats with Will, and each reinforces/refreshes/refines my efforts. It’s invaluable.” (Senior Lecturer)
WriteHere, RightNow Audio Programme
“This process and method really helped me get unstuck and keep going with my writing. Learning about what gets in the way and the power of setting my intentions has also shaped how I approach the rest of my day. I would highly recommend the online course, as I was able to approach at my own pace." (Researcher)
“Tremendously valuable, insightful and easy to follow. I’ve never had the opportunity to think of writing as an “emotional” endeavour, rather than a “technical” one. I was able to sit down and write a short paper and submit it to a journal – that is not a level of confidence and writing persistence that I was ever able to demonstrate before.” (Lecturer)
"A really excellent system … I now really enjoy writing again - all that layering of rubbish that stops us writing - stripped away … I now have this maxim write often, write anywhere and write now…" (Professor)
My experience of writing
Let me be clear - this method is not based on how I approached writing in the past. My experience of writing is a troubled one. I have a level of dyslexia which is well hidden by hard-to-read handwriting and spell checks. As an undergraduate my essays had to be typed up before they were marked - sometimes by me in the Head of Department’s office. Switching to writing on a computer saved some effort, though I had to work hard to write in ways people could understand. I remember all too well a lecturer saying "Will, we always have such interesting conversations about policy ideas, yet your essays are always so disappointing". (He could have benefited from some coaching about motivating students!)
Coaching with Jeff Gill during my PhD helped with confidence to find my voice through writing, though I still needed to have a proof-reader correcting and questioning what I really meant (thanks Kath Cross and also to my mother, Hazel). As an academic I oscillated between moments of real clarity with writing, and times of feeling overwhelmed and unable to start writing, often never really feeling I'd captured and set out what I wanted to say. I let go of many writing projects.
In becoming a coach I found myself writing again. I co-wrote two books with Jeff Gill which help me think about my relationship to writing. It helped that these weren't academic books, so I felt more freedom in how I expressed myself. I realised I could write better if I'd prepared well, and that I could let ideas flow if I knew we'd be editing later. It was later as a coach that I became more interested in this process for other people, in using coaching and mindfulness to create a new relationship with writing. That was the start of WriteHere, RightNow, my writing retreat process which I have adapted and improved over time.
Explore the options
If you’d like to explore the WriteHere, RightNow options with me, please get in touch.
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