One-on-One Writing Coaching, Consulting & Mentorship

• Gain Clarity & Direction: Create week-by-week project timelines with achievable milestones that lead to manuscript completion.
• Overcome Blocks & Build Momentum: Develop a personalized writing routine that fits your life—whether that's daily 5 AM sessions or weekend writing sprints—and stick to it with built-in accountability.
• Refine Your Craft & Voice: Receive page-specific feedback that strengthens your dialogue, deepens character development, tightens your narrative structure, or polishes your academic arguments.
• Follow Through & Gain Self-Confidence: End each written coaching session with clear, manageable action items that maintain progress between meetings and prevent backsliding.
• Reach Your Audience: Navigate the publication process with an insider's perspective, from crafting query letters to preparing book proposals to responding to editorial feedback. Your writing consultant has the benefit of not only their own experience, but that of their other clients.
• Achieve Your Writing Goals: Whether it's finishing a manuscript, improving specific skills, or navigating your creative or intellectual evolution, we provide the expert writing guidance and mentorship you need.

Our writing coach services combine supportive mentorship with professional critique. Sessions typically involve discussing progress, setting achievable goals, working through creative or structural challenges, receiving targeted feedback on pages (as agreed upon with your coach), and practicing effective writing and revision strategies.

Your Gilliam writing coach online might help you break through a mental block by teaching specific freewriting techniques, work with you to develop character backstories that never appear in your final draft but subtly inform your work, or help you recognize and eliminate your most common stylistic weaknesses.

Between sessions, they remain available for brief email exchanges to keep your momentum going.

The best writing coaches (and ours are the best) provide invaluable expertise that can save you years of trial and error—even if your goals are focused only on personal growth, rather than on professional advancement as an author.

Our faculty’s coaching and consulting rates start at $85 per hour, reflecting their prestigious publications, advanced degrees (MFA/PhD), and university teaching experience.

During your complimentary 15-minute Consultation Call, we'll discuss which writing consultant's background and rate best align with your needs.

GWG's Enrollment Managers will pair you directly with an accomplished professional whose real-world success represents the highest levels of academic and literary achievement.

Our faculty and emeritus faculty includes Rhodes Scholars who have published with major presses, cultural critics leading prestigious magazines (e.g., the Editor-in-Chief of Bookforum), and former English department chairs from top universities.

Their writing appears in legacy publications like The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic, and their award-winning books and novels have been published by presses such as Simon Schuster, Penguin Random House, and Macmillan.

Our faculty have also taught literature and creative writing at elite institutions throughout the US, from Iowa Writers’ Workshop, to Cornell University, to the University of Chicago—yet, thanks to GWG, their teaching reaches beyond the small number of students who are admitted to those programs.

Every freelance writing mentor hirable through GWG is skilled at translating their expertise into actionable guidance for writers at all levels of craft, and all stages of project development.

Unlike editing services that fix only what's on the page, our writing coaching service helps you develop your unique voice and style as an author.

Our approach is deeply personalized, collaborative, and process-oriented. We support you in building core skills and habits that will stand the test of time, giving you the tools you need to tackle any future literary endeavor.

In other words, this is more than just editing or tutoring—it's a dedicated partnership with a writing mentor who has achieved real-world literary and academic success.