I wasn't sure if I really had the chops to be a teacher, until I saw what chops people had on Deviantart and their fiction. I have been genuinely horrified.
I would say, out of the about hundred stories I read, few were passable, about three or four were "good", and there is only one story the entire year of Deviantart I would probably think of as exceptional. I was easily reading 2 -3 stories a week. More on some weeks.
However, I don't exactly want to tutor people on their writing muchly. Part of this comes from the fact I use words like "muchly", however another part comes to the fact I cannot tell you how to write. I can't! That's not my place, and that is something you'll have to learn on your own.
But, I have to admit, if I kept "learning on my own", I never would've gotten anywhere. Getting advice is tough online, because there's an awful lack of advice and an awful lack of discerning readers. Also, a lot of writing articles focus primarily on either the theoretical or the practical, but rarely both, and rarely the experiential. They might tell you how to build a kingdom, but not why. And no one really talks about the process of learning how to write.
So, think of this as my attempt to teach others. Here are some of the articles I got plans for:
Writing Advice: "Kill Your Darlings"--You Probs Won't Feel Bad
Macro Pacing Versus Micro Pacing
The Big Ole' How To Write A Fight Scene
Your "Emotional" Stories Are Offensive
And many, many more.
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