I have great news to share with you. But first, a huge thank you to all of you who shared my post last week launching my initiative to offer free mentoring to working class aspiring writers. By sharing that post you made a tremendous impact, not only in getting the word out and encouraging lots of people to apply, but – and this is the exciting bit – by sharing the word we reached a sponsor.
I was contacted this week by someone who wants to sponsor two more mentees in my October group. This means, that my first mentee has some like-minded company, and that not only will we be doing our four one-to-one sessions, but we will also be having a group zoom together, and we will have a shared (and closed) space on a Facebook group for my mentees to post (and me to answer) queries, worries, and just start building a community. For example, say that one mentee has a question about dialogue that week, I can put together helpful advice on dialogue and post it in the group for everyone to benefit…