Today, a takeover on my substack from the mentees I have been working with for the month of October.
Regular readers will know that in September, I announced I was offering free mentoring for working class aspiring writers. As a council estate girl I know only too well that opportunities are rarely handed to people like us, and we don’t necessarily have the resources to afford them. So I decided that for the next twelve months I will offer one free spot on my mentoring programme per month. In that month, mentees will get four one-to-one zooms with me, as well as a group zoom with the other mentees and a ‘mystery guest’ appearance from another published author. They also get access to our closed Facebook group, a supportive community of like-minded aspiring writers where I am on hand for writing advice, posting resources, or as an accountability monitor.
I was lucky enough that my initial tweet reached a sponsor who made it possible for two other aspiring writers to join in October – a …