Your Writing Tutor
“Whether writing personal poetry, best-selling memoirs, novels, or children’s stories and plays, Janice has a wide-ranging experience of the publishing industry. She also has a unique ability to tutor others to achieve their goals. A rare breed of award-winning writer and educator, she has helped over 600 students find their voice and write with style. Janice achieves this with compassion and understanding of the writer, and an in-depth knowledge of what works on the page.”
Janice’s credentials include:
Prize-winning children’s author, writing in all genres and published internationally
Co-author of four popular books of memoir
A poetry blog, with poems anthologised in published collections for children, a prize-winner in the Kevin Ireland Poetry competition, a poetry tutor at Massey University, and an in-demand presenter of poetry workshops
A Masters degree from the University of California, specialising in reference librarianship
Poetry
All poets need encouragement. This poetry course gives you the confidence, structures and techniques to help you bring your poems out into the light of day and create the best poems you can on the topic and in the style of your choice.
Learn how to begin writing poetry, how to work with ideas, how to extend the range of your work, how to polish what you have written till it shines – and how to share your poems with others.
Endorsement: I really appreciate your insights and comments, as a way forward for me to improve the tone and other aspects of my poems.
– Linda Pinto
The course has been such a great impetus for investing more time into writing and I can see the development in my poems over time which is satisfying.
– Jess Arcus
Memoir
If you love to share anecdotes from your life story, or research and write someone else’s story, Go Write Now Memoir will help you select and shape incidents into an unforgettable and engrossing account.
Starting with finding the right story to tell, I cover how to make your writing memorable, how to convey character, and how best to share your memoir with others. You will finish the course knowing exactly how to write memoir and how to produce the account you long to write.
We encourage you to write about any aspect of your life, and include the option of shorter, two-module ‘taster courses.’
Endorsement: “I cannot say thank you enough for what you have done. Tears welled up in my eyes at what you had written. I am so very grateful for your assessment and thankful for the experience you bring to this. I feel like I have been so fortunate to have you look at this, Janice.”
Richard Hall, writer of a memoir about hunting.
For Children
Delighting and educating a child is a special skill. Children’s books are a fast-growing genre internationally. Modules include picture and chapter books, novels, character development, rhythm and rhyme, educational writing and more.
I can give you the knowledge and encouragement to learn how to write for children. Write the books kids will love to read.
Endorsement: “Janice was a superb tutor: supportive and encouraging, but frank when necessary. She brings with her knowledge, wisdom and that knack of bringing out the best in people.”
Emma Vere Jones, winner of the Story lines Joy Cowley Award for unpublished picture book.
“I found Janice’s tutoring similar to an old friend – honest, encouraging and to the point. What more could you ask for?”
– Melissa Kinealy
Manuscript Assessments
Do you have a novel, a memoir, a short story, a picture book, anecdotes based on a life’s good living? and now you are asking…?, ‘What do I do next?’
I can read your manuscript closely and write a report for you indicating its strengths and how it could reach its potential. I have been a writer and have worked in publishing for more than 20 years. I can assess all genres of writing and my assessments are thorough. Together, we can polish your story till it shines.