Writing Coach - Nicole Criona | Los Angeles Writers Group

About Nicole.
Nicole co-founded Los Angeles Writers Group in 2003. She authored the successful Get Writing Again in 15 Days and the 100 Days of Writing email-based daily writing challenges. While Nicole focuses mostly on editing and coaching writers, her writing credits include both poetry and fiction (Hissquarterly.com, Strongverse.org, Six Sentences, and Narrative Magazine, placed amongst others). She has also worked as a freelance and content writer, and has been hired to rewrite screenplays.
Coaching Stats:	Specialties:
—Two clients—so far!—got an agent and a book deal (both fiction and nonfiction)—see success stories —Many clients have self-published —Many clients have had short stories / essays published —Thanked in seven books —Three clients are currently seeking representation	Developmental editing and first-draft coaching for both short and full-length fiction, memoir, nonfiction, & screenplays (not television) —Creativity coaching —Productivity coaching —Scene Improvement —Structure —Writer’s block

Books by Nicole’s Clients

Land of Tears: A Journey of Language, Loyalty, & War from an Iranian-American Translator Serving with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan> by Sanjar Rohan	Where the Seams Meet by Patrick Holcomb
Trouble Ain’t Nothin But a Word by Paul O. Scott	Beware the Mermaids by Carrie Talick
It’s Not a Rumour: A Rock and Roll Journey Through Life and Alzheimer’s by Frederick Moore and Shannon Guyton	Stay Sober and Save the World the Cave Woman Way by Ellen Archer
The Devil and Max Largent by Michael Tomlin	Hitchin’: A Memoir by Alex Silberman

Essays, Short Stories, and Plays by Nicole’s Clients

Vigil by Katlyn Minard, published in Ligeia Magazine

Take Fountain: Finding Home Amongst LA’s Historic Buildings by Anne Sawyier, published in Slag Glass City.

Séance by Katlyn Minard, published by Train River Capulet Mag

Death in a Hollywood Edit Bay by Katlyn Minard, published in print by Train River. Read her interview online.

Golden Gate, a full-length stage play by Lindsey Kirchoff, endorsed by Terri Cheney, New York Times bestseller. Featured in Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco 2022 Spring Reading Series, winner of 2021 Durango PlayFest

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