The “Fuck You, Write Your Pages” Individualized Planning Session
Named after the accountability group I lead twice a year (more on that below!), this is a one-on-one, hour-long session where we discuss your writing goals and map out how you’ll reach them. We will not only discuss your logistical challenges and scheduling needs, we will also articulate any thornier, emotional reasons you might resist writing. I will have you fill out a questionnaire before the session to guide our conversation. You will leave our session with a personalized writing schedule for the next four months, as well as tools to get—and keep—creating.
$150
Email me at edan.lepucki@gmail.com to book
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The Two-Person Writers’ Room
Sometimes you just need to talk out your writing project and bounce ideas off another writer. In this hour-long session with me, you’ll get a chance to do just that. Tell me about your project and its sticking points, and we will talk through all possible craft solutions. The act of articulating your story and intentions to a seasoned writer and teacher can reveal its strengths and weaknesses, its bright spots and its blurry ones. Plus, brainstorming plot and character choices is not only productive, it’s also inspiring and fun.
$150
Email me at edan.lepucki@gmail.com to book
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The Feedback Session
For this session, you will send me up to 20 pages (double-spaced) before our meeting. In our session, we will talk in-depth about the manuscript and discuss revision options and next steps. For all clients, I will provide line edits/margin comments. There’s also an option for a written critique letter (about 2 pages long, single-spaced), should that be a useful document for you to have after we meet.
$300 (without critique letter)
$475 (with critique letter)
Email me at edan.lepucki@gmail.com to book
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Fuck You, Write Your Pages: An Accountability Group
Every year I offer two sessions of this accountability group, each lasting approximately thirteen weeks. The spring session begins in late March and the fall session begins in early September.
This group runs asynchronously via a private Substack newsletter. Every Monday, accountability group members receive a Substack newsletter email (accessible only to us, AKA the Fuckeroos). This email includes wisdom or advice from a working writer I admire: sometimes it’s a useful tip, sometimes it’s a writing prompt, sometimes it’s a stirring pep talk. Since the group is multi-genre, I ask different sorts of writers to contribute, from novelists to poets to screenwriters to essayists. (Believe me when I say that every session’s roster of contributors is superb.)
At the end of the email, Fuckeroos must post the answer to two questions: How did writing go last week? And: What are your writing goals this week? I always include my own answers in the week’s email because I too want to be held accountable!
Some Fuckeroos aim to write a certain number of pages or words a week, while some set a time-at-the-desk goal. Others are outlining, others are revising. It’s up to each person to decide what they need to do. Hearing how it’s going for other people is inspiring and comforting. Some Fuckeroos even find a buddy for extra accountability.
If someone fails to post, they hear from me. I want you working!
Throughout the week, I comment on everyone’s posts, and there’s some communication between Fuckeroos as well. It’s a supportive, energizing place to gather. We celebrate and commiserate, and we get our asses to work.
In addition to the weekly emails, I hold three optional Study Halls via Zoom throughout the session, typically Sunday mornings (PST). In these sessions, we briefly share what we will be writing, and then we mute ourselves and turn off our cameras to write alone-yet-together for ninety minutes. It’s amazing how much people get done in these Study Halls!
This group is open to writers of all experience and skill levels; there are very new writers participating as well as authors with multiple books published. You can be working on a book, or a story, or a newsletter post, or a journal practice—anything goes as long as you want to write and be held accountable.
The cost is $125, or $100 for paid subscriber of my newsletter, Italics Mine.
Email me at edan.lepucki@gmail.com if you’d like to get on the mailing list for future sessions.