Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
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The Writing Coach was founded in 2005 by the novelist Jacqui Lofthouse. An international mentoring and development organization for writers, it is also an online home for writers, somewhere you can find advice, information, motivation and most of all encouragement for your writing work.
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
1M ago
Emma Coxon, writer and Jacqui’s PA at The Writing Coach writes about her own visit to Elmley Nature Reserve.We are delighted to publish Emma’s article to celebrate our own forthcoming Sisterhood Retreat at Elmley from 8th-11th March 2024. We are very happy to announce that we have one single room remaining for the Retreat. Do ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
2M ago
We’re proud to announce that Af Marseh’s debut book Tumorous Hesticles achieved #1 Best Seller on its Amazon launch day. After listening to a podcast in January 2020 featuring Jacqui, Af decided to contact The Writing Coach for some support with his self-help memoir that focuses on his own cancer journey. After their first meeting ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
4M ago
by Jacqui Lofthouse One morning, in the spring of 1984 – when I was working at my Saturday job in a sweet-shop – something happened that changed my life. I was eighteen years old and about to take my A Levels. My ambition, at the time, was to become an actor, and I was a ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
6M ago
Author of Artificial Wisdom Thomas R. Weaver worked with several of our team at the Writing Coach. His primary mentor during the writing of Artificial Wisdom was Mark Leggatt. We are delighted that Thomas’s novel has recently been published by Chainmaker Press and recently featured on the front page of ‘The Bookseller’. In short, what ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
6M ago
David Lewis, artist and visualiser describes his commission to illustrate eight writers for The Writing Coach website. David writes: My brief was to capture a handful of inspirational literary figures across different practices, cultures and periods. I deliberately avoided drawing anyone too recent, to be sure there was no ambiguity about who The Writing Coach ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
9M ago
Would you love to fall in love with your writing this summer? It’s certainly my intention, as I move towards finishing a novel. Here are some ideas to help deepen ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
10M ago
By Jacqueline Smith, Client Services Manager at The Writing Coach The Perfect Venue On a beautiful spring day in May, we were delighted to host our first Getting Published Day ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
1y ago
A guest post by Elizabeth Cox, member of The Literary Community. We asked Elizabeth Cox, one of Jacqui Lofthouse’s personal clients and a member of our Membership Group The Literary ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
1y ago
Jacqueline Smith interviews Ariowa Omigie, Scholar at Inside Story, about her experience of the membership. When we launched our “Inside Story” scholarships in 2021, we chose six winners. Ariowa Omigie ..read more
Writing Coach | Mentoring And Development Organisation For Writers
1y ago
A Guest post by Paul Roberts, Consultant at The Writing Coach On Motivation for Writers Thomas Mann said that “a writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult ..read more