Services

Barrington Editorial provides Manuscript Critiques. After the manuscript has been read twice, up to twenty or more detailed single spaced pages discuss your manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses. Elements such as characterization, plot development, narrative structure, as well as dialogue, setting, pacing and sometimes grammar issues are among the variables covered. An Overall Comment, detailed notes on Issues to Address, General Suggestions and Next Steps are provided.

Substantive Editing is occasionally available.

Information on Creative Writing Workshops --- see below.

My clients are published authors by traditional publishers and self-published. They are ESL students and college students, business owners, business professionals and consultants, novelists, memoirists, poets, and educators.

Work can be sent by e-mail or a hardcopy through postal mail.
Note that for editing a standard page is 250 words.

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Hidden Wisdom Writing Workshops - Finding the Words in the Writer and the Writer in the Words. Please e-mail me for info on the One Day Intensives and the Online versions of this workshop.

Next live workshop Tuesdays March 16 through May 11, 2010.  Cost $350 early registration. Eight weeks, 7-9:30 pm, once a week at a Westside location in Los Angeles. Seating is limited. Fee nonrefundable. If you would like to reserve a spot please contact me (you are welcome to visit the first night if undecided) Early Registration ends February 15, thereafter $375. Lisa@BarringtonEditorial.com

The format of the workshop:

  • Half of the time is devoted to an improvisational writing exercise;
  • the other half we share work brought in for critique and editing suggestions.

The fresh writing we do in class is not critiqued, just shared if you would want to share, with group comments on what we liked about the piece. The workshop’s purpose is to provide time and space to write and generate new work and also to provide constructive criticism on separate pieces (up to 3500 words) you would want to bring in for that purpose and to bring up to the next level. (Can sign up for a critique date.)

The writing exercises vary to jump start pieces for personal essay, fiction, poetry so that you get a taste of different ways to write and discover new capacities. I do the exercises right along with you,­ so we are all in this together!

You will receive:

  • Improvisational writing exercises and time to write.

  • Typed notes & a professional edit on work you schedule to submit (submitting is optional). This alone is valued at $100 or more depending on the length of the work.

  • Optional homework assignment every week.

     

  • During the week you will often receive additional information to help with your enjoyment of the exercises.

     

  • Available for questions and consultation throughout the week.

  • A free Report on Writing & Editing.

  • Free subscription to Wordsmith--a newsletter for readers & writers and the occasional fan of Charlotte Bronte.

All levels welcome.

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