Eric S.
- Fort Worth, TX 76133 ( 19.5 mi )
- Expert Creative Writing Tutor
- Male
- Member Since: 03/2012
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $20.00 to $25.00 /hr
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- Also Tutors: Shakespeare, Poetry, Literature, Composition
Creative Writing is one of my top subjects! I have twenty hours of graduate work in an MFA in Creative Writing Program and a BA with an English Major at Texas Christian University. I have four poetry publications in national magazines. These are "The Driftwood Review" "Puffin Circus" "The Houston Literary Review" and "quantum poetry magazine." Also, I have a short story published in "Descant: Fort Worth's Journal of Fiction and Poetry" in 2004. I know a lot about creative writing technique and methodology. I've picked up some of these methods from great teachers and professors, but I also stress that to do creative writing well, one has to be true to one's own voice; so that the techniques are there, not as fundamental blueprints, but to help the student find their voice.
My name is Eric Fisher Stone and I graduated with B.A. from Texas Christian University in the summer of 2008. I attended graduate school directly after, and acquired 20 graduate hours and the University of Idaho’s MFA in Creative Writing Program where I taught freshmen composition. I currently live in Fort Worth, Texas in the zip code of 76133. My main areas of expertise are creative writing, and poetry. I can also teach fiction writing because I have some experience in that as well, having a fiction publication in Descant, Fort Worth’s Journal of Fiction and Poetry. I maintained, in my English major, a GPA of 3.7. My knowledge of literature overall is pretty solid and it is strongest in British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism (meaning American poets like Whitman and thinkers such as Emerson and Thoreau.) With Shakespeare, the plays I am most knowledgeable in are, “A Midsummer ... read more
