"Every piece of writing that I start immediately feels like something submerged that I have to pull out from below the water and save."
-- Alissa Nutting
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-- Alissa Nutting
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Beginning mini-Experimental class you do on your own, send me one story for feedback if you subscribe, for free. 16 lessons at your own pace
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editing stories, poems, articles, bios, books, website copy, screenplays, helping pick and organize stories and poems to send with applications to graduate creative writing programs, etc. Line and developmental editing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Writers College Class: Standardized lectures and assignments for, by email, interactive with critiques. 6/12 weeks NO LONGER AVAILABLE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interstitial Genres Lifetime access ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interstitial With interaction including careful evaluation and editing of stories. 6 months feedback on stories, lifetime access to class. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overcoming Comma Splices. Lifetime access, hour Skype ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 week custom formal lessons, interactive. A course made just for you, with lectures and assignments. Formal lessons are more substantial than the informal, with readings, history, extended attention in documents sent to you each week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 week custom formal lessons, interactive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 week informal coaching. Free-form, without lectures, which can be divided into weeks -- or units that are more stretched out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 week informal coaching. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UCLA X Writing Program. Sign up on their website. 6 or 10 weeks. Includes Getting Started, Fiction for Absolute Beginners, Intro to Short Fiction, Short Story Writing Intermediate, and Experimental Fiction Writing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Short Story Publishing Plan. 6 weeks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somatics of Writing. Lifetime access. Avoid long sedentary stretches by doing this active class and learning how to keep the practice going and save time, write more and better. Many specific exercises and assignments to help generate the next ideas, make sentences muscular, characters well-rounded, create empathy in readers, dynamic plot arcs, vivid scenes, and much more. Comes with free print workbook mailed to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somatics of Writing Interactive 2 hours Skype in segments and timing you desire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conversational and Written English for Non Natives 1 Hour/5 Hours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Short Story Writing Workshop at Writers.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finding Your Focus
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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations (Literary Conversations)
How does it work?
Contact me to inquire about availability, with a clear subject line.
Email me with any questions, letting me know as well as you can what you'd like to get out of this, how long you are considering studying, special considerations, etc. Please include in the subject line "Study Inquiry." I'll get back to you within a few days. (If I don't, please check in again.)
One-on-one editing can include essays, articles, flash fiction, short stories, poems, novellas, and novels. I can suggest changes from something as simple grammar and clarity to something as complex as the entire vision of the piece. I pay attention to not only things like punctuation and continuity of tense but also to things like the aural sound of the sentences, the ability to hook the reader at the beginning and satisfy with the ending. If we feel I may be the editor for your novel, I will edit a bit for free, and give you an estimate if you need. I normally edit for books to send publishers; for the exactness required for self-publishing a long book, either expect my editing to take more hours, or hire a proofreader afterwards.
Custom one-on-one coaching can include straightforward non-narrative writing, or narrative, or poetry, or a combination of any of the above. This rate includes writing lectures and assignments just for you, is the creation of a new class.
Email me with any questions, letting me know as well as you can what you'd like to get out of this, how long you are considering studying, special considerations, etc. Please include in the subject line "Study Inquiry." I'll get back to you within a few days. (If I don't, please check in again.)
One-on-one editing can include essays, articles, flash fiction, short stories, poems, novellas, and novels. I can suggest changes from something as simple grammar and clarity to something as complex as the entire vision of the piece. I pay attention to not only things like punctuation and continuity of tense but also to things like the aural sound of the sentences, the ability to hook the reader at the beginning and satisfy with the ending. If we feel I may be the editor for your novel, I will edit a bit for free, and give you an estimate if you need. I normally edit for books to send publishers; for the exactness required for self-publishing a long book, either expect my editing to take more hours, or hire a proofreader afterwards.
Custom one-on-one coaching can include straightforward non-narrative writing, or narrative, or poetry, or a combination of any of the above. This rate includes writing lectures and assignments just for you, is the creation of a new class.
"U.C. Berkeley English professor, Christopher Newfield, in his new book Unmaking the Public University posits that conservative elites have worked to de-fund higher education explicitly because of its function in creating a more empowered, democratic, and multiracial middle class. His theory is one that blames explicit cultural concern, not financial woes, for the current decreases in funding. He cites the fact that California public universities were forced to reject 300,000 applicants because of lack of funding. Newfield explains that much of the motive behind conservative advocacy for de-funding of public education is racial, pro-corporate, and anti-protest in nature.
Again, from Victoria: “(The) ultimate objective, as outlined in the (Lewis Powell) memo, was to purge respectable institutions such as the media, arts, sciences, as well as college campus themselves of left-wing thoughts. At the time, college campuses were seen as “springboards for dissent,” as Newfield terms it, and were therefore viewed as publicly funded sources of opposition to the interests of the establishment. While it is impossible to know the extent to which this memo influenced the conservative political strategy over the coming decades, it is extraordinary to see how far the principles outlined in his memo have been adopted . . . When corporate money floods the universities, corporate values replace academic values.” How the American University was Killed
Again, from Victoria: “(The) ultimate objective, as outlined in the (Lewis Powell) memo, was to purge respectable institutions such as the media, arts, sciences, as well as college campus themselves of left-wing thoughts. At the time, college campuses were seen as “springboards for dissent,” as Newfield terms it, and were therefore viewed as publicly funded sources of opposition to the interests of the establishment. While it is impossible to know the extent to which this memo influenced the conservative political strategy over the coming decades, it is extraordinary to see how far the principles outlined in his memo have been adopted . . . When corporate money floods the universities, corporate values replace academic values.” How the American University was Killed
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Polish one piece or revise complete books
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Study complete courses from home on your own schedule
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Focus on creativity breaking out of outdated traditions
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