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The Entrepreneur’s Writing Mentoring Programme

This 16- week programme is designed around the "Publishing Pentangle" wrting blueprint, which ensures you get great results quickly.  To ensure the quality of your book the first 14 days of the program are dedicated to structured planning of your writing project.
 
Just like any other project in-depth planning is vital if you want success.  Skimping at this stage will cost you money in the longer term and will be a waste of time and effort: worst-case scenario you produce a book that is of no value and no one wants to read.

Once the first 14 days have been completed there is a time for consolidation before you enter the 12-week writing phase.  This is when you take all the information gathered during the planning phase and actually write you book.  The programme finishes with 2 weeks of research and work relating to your next steps i.e. publishing and promoting.

The programme requires a commitment of approximately 2hrs per day or 14hrs per week.  However, this is only an average, so you might need slightly more or less time.  The implications are simple: if you spend less time than suggested it will take longer to write your book and vice versa.

There are three different mentoring programmes.  They each contain the same 16-week programme, following the unique "Publishing Pentangle" writing blueprint.  All you need to do is decide will level of additional support you require.  The different elements to the three packages are listed below.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Standard Package
 
 
VIP
Package
 
 
Intensive
Kick-start 
 
16 Week Programme
 
 
YES 
 
YES 
 
NO* 
 
Introduction to Publishing Pentangle Course
 
 
YES 
 
YES 
 
YES* 
 
Telephone Mentoring (fortnightly)
 
 
30 mins/session
 
45 mins/session 
 
45 mins/session 
 
Feedback on Publishing Pentangle Course
 
 
NO 
 
YES 
 
YES 
 
5 Day Residential Course*
 
 
NO 
 
NO 
 
YES 
 
* See below for details of what is included in the 5 day residential course..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Intensive Residential Kick-start

Capitalising on your time away from the distractions of the office etc, you will work through the content of the 14day structured planning phase.  After each live tutorial you will have time allocated to work on your writing project.  During this time feedback will also be given.  By the time you leave you will have completed much of the donkeywork and may well have started actually writing your book.  As the whole of the 14 day structure planning phase is completed during these five days, the total duation of the 16 week package will be reduced.
 
These 5-day residential kick-starts are limited to a maximum of 3 delegates and are held at my beautiful French farmhouse in the Aquitaine.  As all work and no play is no fun at all a little R&R is scheduled into the timetable.  This might include a visit to a wine producing châteaux or a local market, and a social evening at a restaurant or soaking up the culture at a night market.
 
The cost of the residential kick-start includes  full board accommodation, and the R&R excursions, but excludes travel costs to and from France.
 
I only schedule five of these courses a year, so please contact me for details of proposed dates.
 
 
 
 
 
 

© Nicci Fletcher 2011