Every writer needs a good editor to push the work to its best possible state. But your work won’t reach a professional editor unless it’s already in excellent shape. A dilemma, to be sure. That’s why you need to be a skilled editor of your own work.
Perhaps your great ideas and stories are clouded by such things as clunky language, timid verbs, excessive wordage, lack of immediacy, and other amateur mistakes. Perhaps your work is fairly good, but it doesn’t quite lift off and soar. What you need is a sharp-eyed editor: you.
This course will show writers (of both fiction and nonfiction) how to operate as their own best editor, which will make their work all the more marketable in the professional world.
This is a cross-genre course, applicable to any kind of writing.
Intensives are fun, fast crash courses.
Two-day Zoom Intensive
Two three-hour sessions on separate days.
Zoom info, tuition: $165
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
The Zoom Intensives are taught via the Zoom videoconference platform.
Editor's Eye Intensive topics include: making readers care, taking them inside the story, zip, flow, conciseness, enticing openings.
Course components: lectures, writing exercises
Intensives are open for writers of any level. Students must be 18 years or older.
Students may reschedule a Zoom Intensive one time.
One-day Intensive
Seven hours in one day (with lunch break).
NYC Tuition: $165
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
One-on-One tuition: $375 Request consultation
The NYC One-day Intensives are taught in-person.
Editor's Eye Intensive topics include: making readers care, taking them inside the story, zip, flow, conciseness, enticing openings.
Course components: lectures, writing exercises
Intensives are open for writers of any level. Students must be 18 years or older.
Students may reschedule a One-day Intensive one time.
