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The Editor’s Eye
The Editor’s Eye is an Intensive, meaning it happens in a short time span (1 day in NYC, or 2 days on Zoom). The course includes a mixture of lectures and exercises. It’s open to writers of any level. Farther down, you can view a syllabus for this course.
Every writer needs a good editor to push their 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 course helps you understand what editors see when they look at your articles or creative projects. You become more aware of the weaknesses in your work that need to be addressed before you send it to someone.
Korey Willoughby
retired teacher
Notes
This is a cross-genre course, applicable to any kind of writing.
Upcoming Classes
NYC COVID Info
Price
Registration fee $25, paid once per term
2-Day
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Zoom
Real-time videoconference
Tuition: $175
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One-on-One
Tuition: $450
Syllabus
This course gives an overview of how to be your own best editor, in any genre. Course components:|
Brief lectures
Writing exercises
Topics:
SoWhat?: Make readers care about the story.
You Are There: Take readers inside the story through details and specificity.
Zip: Liven the story with energy and movement.
Cutting and Tightening: Cut what adds little value; tighten to increase the punch.
Flow: Keep the story flowing with focus and rhythm.
Openings: Entice the readers with an engrossing start.
Note: Content may vary among individual classes.
Teachers
Michael Dunphy
Michael Dunphy has pubished articles and essays in CNN, USA Today, Forbes, Tablet, American Way, Travel + Leisure, Travel Weekly, Time Out, Virtuoso Life, TravelAge West, and Beer Advocate. He is a contributing editor to Fodor's travel guides, the former managing editor of FlyWashington, Air Chicago, and LAX magazines, and former editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Bridge in Montpelier, Vermont. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College.
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Michael Dunphy
has pubished articles and essays in CNN, USA Today, Forbes, Tablet, American Way, Travel + Leisure, Travel Weekly, Time Out, Virtuoso Life, TravelAge West, and Beer Advocate. He is a contributing editor to Fodor's travel guides, the former managing editor of FlyWashington, Air Chicago, and LAX magazines, and former editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Bridge in Montpelier, Vermont. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College.
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