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For Writers
This portal provides extensive resources, detailed suggestions, a downloadable checklist, information in the "What Makes Writing Great" page. So after reading this page, check out the drop down list above. The biology of writing and reading on the Somatics page, a free mini-class in Innovative Fiction, video advice. Just follow the drop-down menu to other subpages like this one, to learn more.
Editing services, group and individual classes, and coaching available with widely published award winning author, Iowa MFA Writing Program graduate, Instructor, Tantra Bensko with six years teaching in-person in Universities, nine years teaching fiction writing online through UCLA X Writing Program and other schools.
Competitive rates. Flexible start time. Not generic or hyped. If students need breaks in classes they can take them. The needs of the student can influence the direction of the course week to week in the custom course.
Contact first by email. Go to the Store to purchase with credit cards, or pay with PayPal or check.
"I'm really excited! I can feel new things opening up. What's so liberating about your coaching is that you offer critical comments, concrete suggestions and encourage the development of a personal voice. That's a rare combination." -- Lisa Holden
Editing services, group and individual classes, and coaching available with widely published award winning author, Iowa MFA Writing Program graduate, Instructor, Tantra Bensko with six years teaching in-person in Universities, nine years teaching fiction writing online through UCLA X Writing Program and other schools.
Competitive rates. Flexible start time. Not generic or hyped. If students need breaks in classes they can take them. The needs of the student can influence the direction of the course week to week in the custom course.
Contact first by email. Go to the Store to purchase with credit cards, or pay with PayPal or check.
"I'm really excited! I can feel new things opening up. What's so liberating about your coaching is that you offer critical comments, concrete suggestions and encourage the development of a personal voice. That's a rare combination." -- Lisa Holden
The logistics page lays it out simply and under that is the subpage Store. Beginners, and seasoned published authors can all benefit by careful attention to their writing. Contact by email. Sign up for email list mini-newsletter with Mailchimp for Interstitial Fiction Genres or for the newsletter for the OWA itself.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
― Maya Angelou
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost
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Editing Services
I edit non-fiction and fiction book manuscripts, short stories, flash fiction, poems, collections, and more. I can help you brainstorm, outline, and chart the plot during developmental editing. I can critique your draft. I can do extensive commentary and line editing. I can proofread and give formatting pointers, hone your synopsis. Whatever level you need, we can accomplish with your schedule in mind wherever you are in the world.
Take advantage of the Manuscript Editing per hour at 60 dollars. In many cases, if you are savvy to the conventional editing tools like Track Changes and listening to MP4 audios, we can arrange it per word count instead if desired, from 3 cents to 6 cents a word depending on the level of editing you desire.
If you are new to working with me and would like a free editing sample, you are welcome to send it to me for a free edit. Email it to me in a Word doc or docx with a clear subject line in the email. Please use Times New Roman 12 point, text justified to the left, double-spaced.
If your sample has any issues that I already cover in my brief, informal videos about the craft of writing, I may refer you to that Video page for additional context.
Take advantage of the Manuscript Editing per hour at 60 dollars. In many cases, if you are savvy to the conventional editing tools like Track Changes and listening to MP4 audios, we can arrange it per word count instead if desired, from 3 cents to 6 cents a word depending on the level of editing you desire.
If you are new to working with me and would like a free editing sample, you are welcome to send it to me for a free edit. Email it to me in a Word doc or docx with a clear subject line in the email. Please use Times New Roman 12 point, text justified to the left, double-spaced.
If your sample has any issues that I already cover in my brief, informal videos about the craft of writing, I may refer you to that Video page for additional context.
Classes Currently Available with Tantra Bensko's Online Writing Academy
Interstitial Fiction Genres: New Wave Fabulism, Magical Realism, Slipstream, Surrealism, and Weird Regular and Interactive 6 months
Overcoming Comma Splices Interactive
Custom Formal Lessons 5 and 10 week segments Interactive
Informal Coaching 5 and 10 week segments Interactive
Short Story Publishing Plan Interactive
Free Experimental mini-class Regular ("Regular" classes are inexpensive, can be done any time, are not interactive.)
Somatics for Writers Regular
Overcoming Comma Splices Interactive
Custom Formal Lessons 5 and 10 week segments Interactive
Informal Coaching 5 and 10 week segments Interactive
Short Story Publishing Plan Interactive
Free Experimental mini-class Regular ("Regular" classes are inexpensive, can be done any time, are not interactive.)
Somatics for Writers Regular
Classes Currently Open at Other Schools
Many Interactive classes at UCLA X Writing Program: Writing for Absolute Beginners, Essential Beginnings, Intro to Short Story Writing, Intermediate Short Story Writing, Experimental Fiction, Rewriting.
Writers.Com: Short Story Writing Workshop 10 weeks Interactive, and Micro-Obstacles VS Flow 3 weeks Interactive.
Writers.Com: Short Story Writing Workshop 10 weeks Interactive, and Micro-Obstacles VS Flow 3 weeks Interactive.
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"When I think of my friends who are writers, this is what I wish them most of all: enough food, enough money, enough time, enough space, enough courage to keep stretching out into a dream no one else could dream until you’re done dreaming it for them." -- Kyle Minor