The Book Intensive is my best-selling, yet most-expensive service. It's $3,000-$5,000 per day, and here's what happens:
- We start at about 9 am and end after dinner.
- We go for a walk in there somewhere or maybe do some yoga and/or meditate.
- And in between, I sit across from you and help you learn how to write your book (or article or chapter), sentence by sentence.
Now, if you don't want to do that, I can just either write your book for you or edit what you've written. But if you want to be the one to write your book, or you want to improve your writing, there's no substitute for having someone coach you in real time.
I'm in South Florida and I don't travel nearly as much as I used to. I used to have a huge carbon footprint, mostly from traveling, and I decided that was unacceptable. So there are fewer Book Intensives in my life these days. Maybe a total of 20 days over an entire year.
But who needs me?
You can create your own, do-it-yourself Book Intensive with a writing partner. If you each pick a project and swap days, you'll be providing one another with a service, cost free, that is likely to help you improve your writing.
And you don't even have to know all the rules and have perfect grammar because part of the process is looking up any questions that neither of you can answer. From usage to rules for reference notes to vocabulary (such as by enlisting the Visual Thesaurus), you learn together and become better at writing, editing and researching together. You challenge each other about your diction and syntax, and act as devil's advocate for each other.
Two heads really are better than one when you want to become a better writer.
