Joyce McDonald has worked one-on-one with over thirty-five aspiring writers since 2004 as an instructor at Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program. For nine years she taught creative writing at Drew University.  And since 1990 she has been a mentor at the annual One-on-One Plus Conference sponsored by the Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature. She currently serves on the Council. Joyce offers both consultation and private mentoring to a limited number of aspiring writers each year.

The one-on-one relationship is one of mutual trust and respect.  As your consultant or mentor, Joyce brings to that relationship her teaching and reading experience as well as her professional writing expertise to help aspiring writers become more accomplished artists, aware of the craft, the techniques, and the endless possibilities of story. She encourages writers to take risks and dig deep within to bring depth to their characters and texture to their prose.

Consultations

If you have a completed collection of short stories or a novel, Joyce will work with you to polish your manuscript until it is of publishable quality. Her method is to ask questions, to get a sense of what you're trying to accomplish and then work with you to achieve that end.

Private Mentoring

Those who have done some fiction writing, but are still fairly new to the field will benefit from intense but positive instruction, the focus of which is on learning techniques, experimenting with various points of view, with methods of characterization, and narrative structure.

For more information, contact Joyce.

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