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
Place & Price
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
One-on-One tuition: $400 Request consultation
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
Place & Price
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
One-on-One tuition: $400 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.
To ensure everyone’s good health, students in NYC classes must provide proof of full Covid vaccinations (the initial series of Covid vaccines plus at least one booster). We will accept your Covid vaccine card (or a digital scan), a NY State Excelsior digital card, or another form of government-approved proof. We will contact you before class begins about showing us proof. Also, we will require masks in the classrooms and Gotham premises.
