Manuscript editing for commercial genre, literary, or nontraditional books and short stories, poetry, screenplays,
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My editing style -- I tend to include audios as well as working with the typed files. I like to understand your voice and goals to help you deliver your own vision while also finding a way to please your readers. I use Track Changes so you can see my suggestions and have the choice of accepting or rejecting the changes. I also deliver a clean version with all the Track Changes accepted. I can do brainstorming, help with determining genre and themes, do developmental editing, line editing, proofing, coaching for marketing, helping you choose which stories and poems to include in a collection or application. I work with most genres, but if there is one that I don't feel competent in editing, I don't take on the job. If I don't feel we are a good match, I refuse the offer. My teaching style -- this website includes some ready made classes, but I do much more custom coaching according to what each student needs. I'm positive and encouraging without being hypy or misleading. If your writing has issues, I directly let you know, gently but without holding back. I've worked with many writers identifying as experimental, avant-garde, post-modernist, surreal and innovative. Authors know that there are almost no professional editors and coaches taking on those styles. When they find me, they are excited to find someone who understands what they are trying to do, who gets profound literature and the desire to push beyond the boundaries to create something completely new and different. I've also worked with many authors aiming for a mass audience for major genres, as I fully understand the plot formula and conventions for the different genres. I delight in solid structure and my novels have traditional plots. |
I offer relatively inexpensive classes with flexible timing, and if people need to take breaks they can -- and they work with me closely individually or take non-interactive classes, or we can customize, work with disabilities, unique projects, websites, and such. I also do editing on your schedule.
Berkeley, CA Business License -- Tantra Bensko's online writing academy.
Berkeley, CA Business License -- Tantra Bensko's online writing academy.