Scattered, disorganized, and overwhelmed, I needed help getting my thesis past the introduction, so I chose EditingWorm’s weekly coaching sessions. The key benefit that made this worth the price was focus, focus, focus on creating my personal strategy for producing academic work. Graduate school only tells you to go research, write, and then format it in a certain way. Thesis coaching answers the massive question of HOW. My coach had dozens of practical, specific techniques and tips to calmly help me with writer’s block, panic, and procrastination. She would remember what she’d previously recommended when I was too crazed to even remember my own name. When one strategy didn’t work out, she’d suggest another way and show me how to use it until I was producing chapters rather than pages. She also had experience to share about dealing with my thesis committee and other faculty and academics diplomatically but effectively.

Your EditingWorm coach remembers where you are at in your writing, even when you don’t, and has recent and specific experience in academia so she can offer examples of how, exactly, to keep track of your various citations from different sources or expand a bunch of phrases into a chapter within a few days. Their editing was great to help me finish pages on deadline so I could focus on creating, but only coaching imparted to me the lasting ability to write as a scholar on my own.