Investing in a business writing coaching service is a smart move for any ambitious professional. By partnering with a skilled writing coach, you're making an investment in your career growth and personal development.

As professional writing tutors, we rely on a mix of personal experience and research when designing our lesson plans & determining how to improve student outcomes. Like many in our field, we have found the “Writing Next” report to be an invaluable resource for teaching our students how to write not only “well,” but compellingly, with gusto and inspiration. Read on to learn why you should hire a writing tutor online.

In the age of digital innovation, the art of tutoring has undergone profound transformations. While today’s educators have access to more advanced tools and platforms than ever before, our core principle of one-on-one instruction has its roots in the deepest bedrock of educational history. Join us as we trace the footsteps of legendary tutor-student duos and discover how the past has informed today's tutoring landscape.

This season, many of us are settling back into our routines and wondering: How can I connect with my creativity again? There is a lot of good advice out there: prompts, good attitude, workshops. But when you already have a personal writing coach, I’ve found that the most effective way to empower yourself is by dedicating a new space in your own home for writing (and writing only.)

This is the second-to-last blog post in our series on the 2007 research report titled "Writing Next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools.” In today’s post, we’ll summarize the next three instructional strategies outlined in the report, and explain how our online writing tutors use them to enhance the writing skills of adolescent learners.

How do our online writing tutors do what they do so well? What research-based methods do we use to teach our students? Here’s our take on the first five effective instructional practices identified in the influential 2007 report titled "Writing Next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools.”

Strong writing skills are essential for cognitive and intellectual development. At Gilliam Writers Group, our writing tutors are committed to helping adolescents in middle and high schools improve their writing skills through evidence-based educational approaches. In this blog post, we’ll discuss an influential 2007 report titled "Writing Next: Effective strategies to improve writing of adolescents in middle and high schools."

A writing coach can talk with you about tools like Bork’s PROBLEM acronym, and how you can use them in your own work. Never hesitate to ask your writing coach about advice you hear in podcasts or find in online articles so they can help you figure out what’s most relevant to your projects.

A writing coach is someone who has likely encountered many of the issues you might be currently facing with your own writing practice, and has figured out ways to overcome them. This means writing coaches are often incredibly resourceful people, who at the same time that they guide you through your process can help you discover how to teach yourself and grow as a writer for a long time after your work together. A writing coach online can refer you to internet-based resources that can help you with the specific project or projects you have in mind. Whether you have grammar questions, or need to think through your story structure, the internet likely has free resources that can help.

One of the most frequent questions from those entering the sometimes-stressful years of middle school is what English teachers expect from their students. A qualified middle school writing tutor from the Gilliam Writers Group can help put your fears to rest, but first, a few pointers to get your recent middle schooler on the right track.

Dialogue is the bread and butter of the play. As a writing coach with Gilliam Writers Group, I’m one of several writing coaches with a background in dramatic writing. So if you need some tips on dialogue for your own novel or short story, here are a few from the theater world, where no one stops talking.

Whether you’re writing an essay for school, revising a chapter in your novel, or composing a sensitive email to coworkers, translating the words in your head into writing can be a frustrating process. A literary translator knows this feeling well, and moreover, accepts it as a natural part of the work of writing. With advanced degrees in diverse topics, including translation, writing coaches at Gilliam Writers Group can offer unique and surprising insight into what makes great writing.

A writing coach can help new authors by advising them on how to pitch a story idea to a magazine. At Gilliam Writers Group, our writing coaches have written for top publications and can offer expert advice on any potential pitch. When approaching a magazine, a subtle shift in mindset can help.

The most basic work of a writing coach is helping their client find their novel’s shape. Although narrative, or plot, has taken many different shapes, one in particular recurs again and again. This is the triangle, the pyramid, the arc: the three-act structure.

Robert Coover’s Briar Rose (1997) is a short but dense little fiction that plumbs the depths of the Sleeping Beauty legend, foregrounding the age-old patterns at the heart of its many variations.

Like many of McKillip’s best works, The Changeling Sea (1988) reads like a fable. It has the simple, classic feel of a story that’s been told a million times, repeated around fires and at bedtimes until all its edges have been rounded out and its contours are so familiar you think you might have dreamed them up yourself.

The Gilliam Writers Group isn't going to become a standard tutoring or coaching company, nor will it become another vast "umbrella platform" that impersonally connects clients with instructors while taking an unduly large cut of their earnings. Employment-wise, our objective is, in fact, very personal: we want to fortify the skills, influence, and financial independence of young writers of unusual talent -- the kind of talent that has little to do with resumes.

Ransom tells the story of Achilles: beloved hero of the Trojan War, bereaved of his companion Patroclus. But this isn’t the conventional tale of Achilles’ rise to fame, or even of his triumphs in battle. Instead, it’s an account of his reckoning with the loss of his soulmate, who dies on the field as a by-blow of our hero’s own pride.

Each sentence is like a little box into which a writer’s chosen words are piled. How the box looks from the outside, regardless of the words it contains, is very important. Some boxes are brightly colored. Some are small and plain. Some are meant to stack neatly on top of one another. Although opening the box — being able to read the words and absorb their meaning — is thrilling, we wouldn’t experience such a thrill without the careful construction of the box itself.

The Vorrh is admittedly a lot to handle. It’s also an absolutely brilliant work of art. Brian Catling’s pan-medium creative background shines through to stunning effect in every inch of his prose; his style in this novel is immediate, tactile, shamelessly sprawling and descriptive.