Welcome to Writing It Real: Your Resource
for Personal Writing Instruction and Writing Craft Tools
From Teacher, Poet and Author Sheila Bender.

• Coaching and Mentoring
• Editing and Development
• Telephone Consults
• Manuscript Evaluations
• On-Line Tutorials and Classes
• Weekly Articles on Craft and the Writing Life
• Conferences and Workshops
• Writing Contests
• Community Discussions
• Computer Help

Sheila specializes in teaching writers at all levels how to begin new work and how to reshape and deepen work that hasn’t yet fulfilled its promise. Whether via articles, tutorials, consults, manuscript evaluations or coaching, she can teach you to look into your creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essay, poetry and short fiction, even college and graduate school application essays, for surprises and wisdom.

Sheila’s slogan when it comes to work-in-progress is that there is no bad writing, only opportunities for good writing. Her community of contributing writers and students are committed to bringing life experiences to the page.  So, whether you are reading Writing It Real’s library of weekly articles, working in online classes, attending Sheila’s writers’ conferences or receiving her response and mentoring in one-on-one study, you will learn to develop your work and say what you’ve dreamed of saying. If you’d like to publish, you will be on your way to submitting work that grabs editors’ attention.

Sheila is an expert and under her guidance, you’ll bring out the best in your writing.  Join Writing It Real today and start learning from Sheila and her community of like-minded others. It’s  the “write” place for expert guidance and tremendously useful resources. Read Member Testimonials.