Who is your coach?
Tennis coach and player practicing.
In our previous post, we wrote about how writing is both an individual and collaborative process. In keeping with this theme, we wanted to explore collaboration more. Drafting the proposal for our book and, more recently, starting to review proposals, the collaborative theme of writing and editing work opens each other up to share our perspectives and be authentic with our thoughts about the project. This also includes an awareness to let different ideas flow in dialogue and an openness to be challenged that improves each step of the process along the way.
Three women writing and reading together at wood bench.
This process can be likened to having a coach, someone to provide support during a project and ask questions that can help you reflect on your work and the opportunity to think differently in your approach as you move through the project. Both inside and outside of higher education, many leaders, writers, and educators have informal coaching and/or support networks that they connect with regularly about projects and their day-to-day work. This is what we are experiencing both in this book project, as well as with our day jobs, which we hadn’t formally realized before. We challenge each other to think differently while providing support opportunities to improve our work.
Who is in your support network?
Who can help you on your writing journey?
Who is your coach?
Terra and Spencer
