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Meet Your Story Buddy!

Fiction writers!

Your cadre of advance readers are great once your short story, novel, or other work is finished. They’ll tell you what works for them, what didn’t… when they couldn’t put your book down, and when they fell asleep…

…but what about while you’re writing, when you’re deep in the weeds with your fiction, and feel tangled and stuck?

What about when you’re toying with an idea that isn’t quite a story, but you can’t get it there?

What about those moments when you’re adding words by the hundreds, but you can’t shake the feeling that something is missing..?

What about those days the suggestions of your critique group, loving and helping and supportive as they are, just don’t land, and you’re not even sure why?

You need a story buddy.

Who is Your Story Buddy?

My name is Matthew Wayne Selznick. I’m an author and editor with twenty years of experience writing and publishing fiction and creative non-fiction, and helping others do the same.

I will help you.

Storytelling is at the core of everything I do: novels, short fiction, memoir, articles… even marketing and social media.

I understand dramatic structure and story architecture in ways that help bring clarity to your work in progress or work-to-be.

Let’s talk about it.

How to Meet Your Story Buddy

Via phone, Skype, or Zoom, we’ll spend an hour discussing your work and the specific knots you’re trying to untie.

Through directed questions and experience-driven insights and suggestions, I’ll guide you to discover ways to strengthen the storytelling bones of your piece, excavate and construct buried, fragmented thematic opportunities, coax out undeveloped character depth and motivation, and more.

Written yourself into a corner? Together, we’ll carve doors and blaze trails.

Naturally, the specifics will depend on the work itself.  No matter — by the end of our conversation you will see your work in ways you hadn’t before, and you’ll have new ideas and a new outlook from which to proceed.

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Get Ready To Meet Your Story Buddy!

Book a session with Your Story Buddy! Find the date and time that works for you.

When you book, you’ll be presented with a choice of meeting methods: phone or Zoom. You’ll also need to have two things ready to complete your booking:

  1.  A concise (under 1,000 words) synopsis of your story, including any details applicable to the challenge, problem, or question you’d like to address in our session.
  2. The challenge, problem, or question itself.

The Works of Matthew Wayne Selznick

Your Story Buddy doesn’t just coach fiction writers… I’m a veteran author of novels, short stories, and serial fiction with a background in indie publishing dating back to the turn of the century. Here are my currently available books, short stories, serials, collections, anthologies, and non-fiction works.

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Put me to work on your story problem. Let’s be story buddies!

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PRIVACY
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RESCHEDULING / CANCELLING / FAILURE TO ATTEND
If you need to cancel or reschedule, please do so at least twelve hours before your scheduled session. Instructions will be included with your booking confirmation e-mail. In the interest of respecting my time and that of other Your Story Buddy clients, there are no refunds for cancellations made within twelve hours of your scheduled time, and no refunds for failure to attend.

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