Updated December 21, 2021
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A treat for you, since you made it to the end of this document! Now that you are familiar with dense legal language: try writing a short story in the form of a Terms and Policies Agreement. Play with the form and the sentence structure. Have fun with it.
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As we increase the number of payments available in each payment plan and the window for payment grows longer, our admin time managing these plans goes up.
The admin fee consequently increases for the number of payment plans:
All purchases made from Sarah Selecky International Inc. are investments in your writing. When you make a purchase from us, you are promising to explore and practice. Our refund policies are different for each of our products. Unless specified below, all purchases are non-refundable.
It is challenging to offer a money back guarantee on a creative experience. The very nature of these experiences is that they are often the same ones that we resist. So it is impractical to guarantee success from these programs, or to ask you to return them if you are unhappy with your writing.
Before you purchase any of the products offered by Sarah Selecky International Inc., we encourage you to explore the website — read Sarah’s newsletters, inspect her offerings, take a look at her testimonials. Get to know Sarah and her methods first. Find out if her opinions on the writing life make sense to you before you invest.
Having a no-refund policy makes it all the more powerful for you when you commit to your writing. Of course, if you are having problems getting the program or product to function properly, please notify us and we will work with you to get it sorted.
By purchasing these programs and products, you are choosing to make your writing a priority. Fantastic choice! Your writing will thank you.
Specific Refund Policies, by program:
This is a nonrefundable investment in your writing. When you make this purchase, you are promising to explore and practice. You’ll be paying for it the way you would pay for a degree, an all-inclusive retreat, a counselling session, an art show, or a ticket on an overnight train. I know that online sales expectations are distinctly pro-refund, and I understand the reason for that. I considered it for this program. But after some thought, I realized that I didn’t feel right about offering a money back guarantee on a creative experience.
Thought #1
What will I guarantee? This is not a course about how to get published or write a book (though both of those may be the result). This is a program that offers must-have fiction writing techniques and the critical thrill that comes from identifying those techniques in action; it teaches you how to maintain a state of mind that conducts creativity; it promises that you and your writing will enjoy spending time together again.
Is that guarantee-able?
Thought #2
If I did offer a money back guarantee on the above promises, it would be on the condition that the writer first completes all of the practice exercises and assignments and writes a report on every reading in each of the seven lessons. This person must submit a portfolio of his/her work to be eligible for full refund. This is interesting, but what it actually means is… (see thought #3)
Thought #3
I want you to be fully committed to do the work that’s involved. And I want you to be sure that this is the right program for you before you pay me for it.
What it comes down to is this: if you’re the right person for the Story Course, you will know it. And if you are ready to commit to your writing in a deep, life-changing way, you will feel it. If those two aspects happen for you at the same time, you should go for it.
Having a no-refund policy makes it all the more powerful for you when you commit to your writing.
Please explore this site, before you make your purchase. Read my letters, inspect my offerings, take a look at my testimonials. Get to know me and my methods first. I have strong opinions about the writing life – you should find out if my opinions make sense to you before you invest.
Memberships to Centered are a non-refundable one-year commitment. You may choose to pre-pay for the full year or pay monthly.
Your membership will auto-renew, but you may cancel your renewal if you wish. If you choose to cancel your membership before your one-year commitment expires, you’ll continue to have access to Centered until the end of your one-year commitment period.
If you have any questions about cancellation, please email us at support@sarahselecky.com.
Subscription fees are subject to change. If you cancel your membership and sign up at a later date, you will have to sign up at the current rate.
The Story Intensive is a bespoke writing program with a highly intuitive and personalized enrolment process. Unlike most other writing classes, ours are deeply interconnected: every change affects the whole cohort. This is what makes this program unique, and why it works as well as it does.
Your commitment to this program creates a mutual investment with your teachers and fellow writers. It is in that promise that the magic happens.
Of course, we understand that life happens, too: it can be unpredictable, even when we make a promise in good faith.
Because of this, here is our refund policy:
The Story Intensive requires the purchase of the Story Course. The Story Intensive guides our students through the Story Course program, and offers accountability, and the reading and critique of a story written during the program.
The Story Course is non-refundable. As a result, for anyone who purchases the Story Course and the Story Intensive together at the same time, there is a $475 USD non-refundable deposit for the registration price of the Story Course.
For those who must withdraw from the Story Intensive, please read the following:
Transferring your spot:
You may transfer your spot to someone else. If you fill your space with another person by January 21st, 2022 you will receive a 100% refund of the Story Intensive portion of the price.
Refunds:
If you register and withdraw from the Story Intensive, without transferring your tuition to someone else, or gaining a credit at the Sarah Selecky Writing School, you will receive the following refund according to the following dates:
Again, there are no refunds for the Story Course, so the following refunds do not include payment put towards the Story Course (up to $475 USD)
Up to December 19, 2021:
From December 20, 2021 to February 1, 2022:
From February 2, 2022:
Deferring your tuition:
We want the best for you and your writing. If you enroll in good faith and your circumstances make it truly impossible to participate, and you are unable to find someone else to take your place, your tuition can be deferred for a future year of the Story Intensive. You may also put it toward any of our other offerings.
Please know that we can’t guarantee the Intensive will be offered every year.
Deferment follows these guidelines:
Up to January 21, 2022:
From January 22 to February 25, 2022
After February 25, 2022
The coaching relationship can be intimate; it requires vulnerability, presence, and a strong level of commitment on both sides. For this reason, we are unable to offer cancellations or refunds for the First Draft Novel Coaching Program and the Manuscript Evaluation and Revision Coaching Program(s).
If there are extenuating circumstances, such as serious illness, we will consider cancellation or deferment on a case-by-case basis.
We want the best for you and your writing. Please contact us if you have any questions about our refund policies.
