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Can a writing coach help you?

What hiring one can do for your career, and how to find the right match

By Brandi-Ann Uyemura
Published: August 31, 2011
The writing process may seem effortless to our readers, but writers know that writing involves more than simply getting our thoughts on paper. After all, if it were easy, you wouldn’t have a novel collecting dust in your drawer or a 10-month-old essay still incomplete on your computer.

In fact, there is a lot that goes on both intellectually and psychologically when you sit down to write. Creativity coach Robert Ressler says his clients commonly deal with inner conflict about the writing that they’re doing or their aspirations to write. They have their “dreams and desire on the one hand” and “inhibition or confusion on how to fulfill those desires on the other,” he says.

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