Mentorship is often viewed as a traditional personal relationship model, where the mentor meets face-to-face with a mentee within the same organisation or group.  However, I have been mentoring medical writers success fully for many years using virtual technology to connect and advise, long before the COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to work virtually from home. Virtual mentorships may take more time and effort to build, but they provide new medical writers with unprecedented global access to mentors. Creating a successful virtual mentorship starts by identifying the right mentor, followed by setting appropriate and achievable mentee goals. These goals and the strategies to attain them are documented in a virtual mentoring plan. The plan provides a roadmap for both the mentor and mentee to keep the virtual mentorship on track in a professional and transparent manner, no matter where in the world they may work and live.