Internships
Do you want to work as a Freelance Developmental Editor? Or a Freelance Author?
The Career Skills Program (CSP) is for transitioning Servicemembers.
See my article about the CSP and Skillbridge programs.
I am offering Internship Programs through the Army Career Skills Program to Transitioning Service Members.
Internship Description: Upon completion of this training, the Servicemember will be familiar with the software for running their own freelance editing/writing business. Additionally, they will become familiar with manuscript editing methodologies such as the Story Grid and Save the Cat in order to self-edit their own writing or developmentally edit client manuscripts. Lastly, they will receive training on the use of Scrivener, software for manuscript writing.
At the end of this program, you will know:
- How to use the Story Grid methodology to self-edit your book or assess a manuscript
- How to write more compelling stories and scenes
- How to invoice and accept payments from clients
- How to using Scrivener to write and edit manuscripts
- How to use other administration platforms to manage your business (calendly, google documents, wordpress, descript, buzzsprout, YouTube)
- How to make money as a freelancer with multiple streams of income (YouTube, Medium, affiliates, tips)
Who Am I?
Hi, I’m Randy Surles.
I’m one of only a small handful of Story Grid Certified Editors in the world. I trained as an editor under Shawn Coyne, who originated the Story Grid method based on his 25 years’ experience in New York publishing, and I’ve been using Shawn’s techniques to help make authors better, as well as to write my own books.
I spent over 20 years in the U.S. Army as a Ranger and Green Beret, working in the Middle East, South America, and Africa. While in the Army, I earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso so I could pursue my dreams of writing and editing once I retired.
While I am open to editing all genres, because of my background I find I am a huge benefit to authors writing novels with a military flavor. I am a big fan of Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, and Fantasy novels. I love a good story, but I want my clients to become writers of great stories. To do that, I give them recommendations on how to move their projects forward, identify those parts that are ‘just not working’, and make them better writers overall.