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Editing & Coaching with Heart
“The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.”
~ Michael Lee (poet)
Thank you for considering me as the editor, resource, and guide for your writing project. I look forward to assisting you in bringing forth your writing project into the next stages of development.
The way I work:
My services include maintaining your voice as a creative writer throughout the entire process with integrity to the process. I provide clear, honest, respectful, and compassionate communication during our time together. This includes positive and constructive feedback.
I review your writing by giving suggestions for sentences, paragraphs, and/or concepts. These suggestions come in the form of highlights within the text and comments about the specific highlights. Before I make any physical changes to your work, I ask for your permission. The choice for making changes is up to you as the writer. The suggestions are given based upon your chosen genre. The specific areas of focus for your work are given with each editing package below.
The following are editing package with the details of each service. The pricing and timing will vary based upon your individual needs. If you desire a combination package designed specifically for your needs, simply communicate your desire and we will discuss the terms.
I also provide coaching to support you with clarifying specific editing suggestions and/or helping you move through blocks, obstacles, or challenges toward successful development of your writing. These sessions include specific guidance, suggestions, and compassionate communication.
*New* Developmental Editing Packages
See all 3 packages below! Progressing Trek, Thriving Trip, and Evolutionary Voyage!
4 Week Progressing Trek Package
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This package is best for those who want to go on a trek to make progress with:
Writing a good chunk of their story idea to see how it’s coming together or
Writing several blog articles or
Revising their journals toward writing a book
Included in the package:
Goal setting and writing plan for our 4 weeks together.
Choose to submit your words all at once to me OR work week by week.
Writing Scenes Document to help improve your writing.
List of writing prompts to spur your creative juices.
Organizational Chart of writing including hook, lessons, beginning look at a story arc, beginning look at a character arc, summary revisions, and notes and comments about each piece submitted.
To be completed in 4-8 weeks
(A writer can take more weeks if submitting writing every other week.)
Two ways of working:
All At Once: This way works best for those who have a small amount of words already written (up to 10,000 words) and want a developmental edit to improve their writing. Including all of the areas mentioned in the package.
Week by Week: This way works best for those who want to commit to writing for 4 weeks together with me as your developmental editor. Writing and submitting words to me week by week for the 4 weeks. This equates to writing approximately 2500 words a week (up to 10,000 words total). Including all of the areas mentioned in the package.
Pricing:
Option 1: Editing $1600
Option 2: Editing with 2, 30 minute Coaching Calls $1700
Option 3: Editing with 4, 30 minute Coaching Calls $1800
Coaching calls can also be added à la carte.
Extra weeks and/or words can be added on per writer’s needs.
“Regina is a wonderful editor and great person to confide in throughout your writing process. She helped me to see that the best way to impact others and tell my story authentically is to focus on the feelings and the lessons I learned in my experiences, rather than explaining things in a how - to fashion. Because of her thoughtful suggestions and responses, as well as the links and resources she sent, I was able to gain a deeper understanding of how to tell my story in an honest but compelling and bold way. Thank you Regina ! 10/10 stars :)”
~ Nate Jones, Author of Permission to Create!
You can also email me! regina@transpersonalguidance.com
8 Week Thriving Trip Package
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This package is best for those who want to their writing to thrive towards:
Writing 8 chapters (approximately 2500 words per chapter) of a memoir by developing their personal character arc and story arc within the chapters.
Identifying Universal Themes in their stories.
Identifying specific potent story moments to become chapters.
Developing scene writing to engage your readers.
Learning about your style/voice and how it’s impacting your story and readers.
Included in the package:
Goal setting and writing plan for our 8 weeks together.
Choose to submit your words all at once to me OR work week by week.
Writing Scenes Document to help improve your writing. And developmental editing comments from me about how to write scenes within your work.
List of writing prompts tailored to your story to spur your creative juices.
Help with universal themes occurring in your work or that can be added to your writing.
Organizational Chart of writing including: hook, lessons, story arc, character arc, style/voice, dialogue, summary revisions, and notes and comments about each piece submitted.
To be completed in 8-12 weeks
(A writer can take more weeks if submitting writing every other week.)
The underlined words are the additions to the 4 week Progressing Trek Package. For this Thriving Trip Package, the developmental editing comments about scene, help with universal themes, prompts tailored to your story, style/voice and dialogue additions are larger additions necessary for a going on a longer trip with you writing!
Two ways of working:
All At Once: This way works best for those who have a small amount of words already written (up to 20,000 words) and want a developmental edit to improve their writing. Including all of the areas mentioned in the package.
Week by Week: This way works best for those who want to commit to writing for 8 weeks together with me as your developmental editor. Writing and submitting words to me week by week for the 8 weeks. This equates to writing approximately 2500 words a week (up to 20,000 words total). Including all of the areas mentioned in the package.
Pricing:
Option 1: Editing $3200
Option 2: Editing with 4, 30 minute Coaching Calls $3400
Option 2: Editing with 8, 30 minute Coaching Calls $3600
Coaching calls can also be added à la carte.
Extra weeks and/or words can be added on per writer’s needs.
“I loved working with Regina as my Developmental Editor– I felt like she really “got me” and allowed me to guide and follow a more intuitive process in writing my book. She provided a helpful structure to keep me going, and weekly check-ins to get closer and closer to what I truly wanted to say. My book is infinitely better from working with her!”
~ Meg Gibbs, Spiritually Parented
You can also email me! regina@transpersonalguidance.com
12 Week Evolutionary Voyage Package
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[Check out The Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program to determine whether you wish to follow a specific writing program based on the evolutionary aspects of walking a spiritual journey. However, if you wish to follow your own voyage then check out this package.]
This package is best for those who want their writing to demonstrate their evolutionary story towards:
Writing 12 chapters (approximately 2500 words per chapter) of a memoir by developing their personal character arc and story arc within the chapters.
Learning how to write from the subconscious. Writing from the subconscious is where the magic of creative writing happens! Where words seem to write themselves on the page and universal themes arise out of the previously unknown.
Developing specific character and story arcs with specific lessons, universal themes, and turning points to create a captivating, relevant and engaging memoir of our times!
A special emphasis on style/voice, mood/tone, and reflections to learn how each of these are impacting your story and readers.
Included in the package:
Goal setting and writing plan for our 12 weeks together.
Choose to submit your words all at once to me OR work week by week.
Writing Scenes Document to help improve your writing. And developmental editing comments from me about how to write scenes within your work.
List of writing prompts tailored to your story to spur your creative juices.
Help with universal themes occurring in your work or that can be added to your writing.
Introduction to writing from the subconscious exercises that creates an immediate emotional connection with you to your story and with your story to your writers.
Developing specific character arcs and story arcs both within the chapters and within the whole manuscript. Along with identifying and writing turning points within your stories.
Organizational Chart of writing including: hook, lessons, story arc, character arc, style/voice, mood/tone, reflections, dialogue, summary revisions, and notes and comments about each piece submitted.
To be completed in 12-16 weeks
(A writer can take more weeks if submitting writing every other week.)
The underlined words are the additions to the 8 week Thriving Trip Package. For this Evolutionary Voyage Package, these additions of writing from the subconscious and developing specific arcs and turning points , and working with mood/tone and reflections are larger additions necessary for a going on a more in-depth voyage with you writing!
Two ways of working:
All At Once: This way works best for those who have a good amount of writing already written (up to 30,000 words) and want a developmental edit to improve their writing. Including all of the areas mentioned in the package.
Week by Week: This way works best for those who want to commit to writing for 12 weeks together with me as your developmental editor. Writing and submitting words to me week by week for the 12 weeks. This equates to writing approximately 2500 words a week (up to 30,000 words total). Including all of the areas mentioned in the package.
Pricing:
Option 1: Editing $4800
Option 2: Editing with 6, 30 minute Coaching Calls $5100
Option 2: Editing with 12, 30 minute Coaching Calls $5400
Coaching calls can also be added à la carte.
Extra weeks and/or words can be added on per writer’s needs.
“I felt grateful for Regina's unwavering support and guidance, knowing that I could not have done this work alone. Together, we were creating something powerful and transformative, a memoir that would reflect the deepest truths of my life and help me to find healing and closure.”
~ Denise Schaad, Author of Spirit Speaks
You can also email me! regina@transpersonalguidance.com
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Developmental Editing - $45/hr
This type of editing is for you if you have written a rough draft of a document, chapter, and/or manuscript. You desire to receive specific suggestions to clarify, restructure, enhance, and develop the following elements of your work. We work through developing each of the following elements based upon your needs as a writer.
Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction (Memoir) elements: Scene, Setting, Characters, Character & Story Arc, Conflict/Tension, Theme, Lessons, Style, Voice, and Conceptual Development.
For Non-Fiction elements: Theme, Lessons, Style, Voice, Conceptual Development, and Research.
The Developmental Edit focuses on:
Co-creating milestones with you including timeline & goals
Pointing out places where Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction (Memoir) elements need greater clarity, restructuring, enhancement, and development
Pointing out where Non-Fiction elements need greater clarity, restructuring, enhancement, and development
Suggesting specific revisions for areas needing consistency in tone, voice, and style
Suggesting specific revisions for restructuring sentences and paragraphs for greater flow, clarity, and rhythm toward creating relevant and engaging writing
Suggesting how best to reorganize confusing or out of place sentences, paragraphs, and chapters
Providing links to helpful research of desired topics and ideas (Non-Fiction)
Providing relevant, specific examples on how to sharpen and develop scenes (Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction Memoirs)
Suggesting ways to organize paragraphs, chapters, table of contents, and conclusion to create a professional manuscript
Providing encouraging support including compassionate communication and positive and constructive feedback
Email communication is included during our time together. If you desire to have one-on-one coaching support, please see the information about my Coaching Services below
Coaching Services
Coaching Services - $100/hr
Provide encouraging support with specific guidance, suggestions, and compassionate communication to discuss editing/manuscript suggestions and/or help you move through blocks, obstacles, or challenges toward developing your writing.
Each session is customized for your specific area(s) of need to assist you with your writing project.
We can create a coaching plan with a specific number of sessions tailored to the goals and milestones of the writing project.
Each coaching session is for 30 minutes via Zoom.
Guided Somatic Journey Calls - $150/hr
These 1 hour sessions focus on going deeper in working with any stuck areas, clear any obstacles, and provide clarity, understanding, and learning about any challenges occurring with a particular stage of the Journey of Spiritual Transformation Writing Program. Or, these sessions can accompany the developmental editing services if you choose to go that route of working together.
From my transpersonal studies and working with clients, I developed my own process of Guided Somatic Journeying. Combining the use of the imagination with guided mediation to acknowledge and subconscious patterns from the body.
I became very fascinated by this process because of my clients’ sustainable results. This process is the basis for all of my programs.
What is a Guided Somatic Journey? Guided Somatic Journeying works underneath the usual chatter of thoughts by connecting with the imagination to journey into the subconscious. Journeying to where unconscious patterns and defenses reside.
To then unlock and transform these patterns and defenses through dialoguing with these parts, finding out what they need, and providing what is needed in the moment through the breath, imagination, sound, energy, and conversation.
This journeying process is much like guided meditation. Where I guide you to engage your own clairvoyant, psychic, and intuitive skills to help you in accessing blocked, stuck places. Even if you feel you’re not psychic or intuitive, you will be surprised by what you can already see and know about your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual patterns
“To Regina Stribling, my friend and editor, I start with you. Without you, there would be no book. Over a year ago, you told me what this book would be about. You graciously showed up each week, grinned at my story-telling and gently reminded me - again and again. But I said absolutely not. Yet, when I returned only a few months ago in 2021, having been followed by an egg with a crown for many months, you graciously and humbly took me under your wing and shared the magic of your gifts of writing and story-telling. A heroine’s journey, you said. Using words to paint pictures, to elicit emotions, to make a point in a non-lawyerly way. To share an experience that would resonate with many more women who are just like me. You joined me in laughter, tears, frustration, sadness, and hope. You made me a better writer, a better person, and helped me choose freedom by sharing my story. You are the best editor and guide a girl could ask for. A wizard with words, a calming force, a wise soul. I am forever in your debt.” Infinitely More by Amy Conway-Hatcher