WD Presents: Still Time to Register for the Annual Conference, and More!
There’s always so much happening in the Writer’s Digest universe that even staff members have trouble keeping up. As a result, we decided to start collecting what’s on the horizon to make it easier for everyone to know what’s happening and when.
This week, we’re excited to announce continued registration for the Annual Conference, six WDU courses, and more!
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There’s Still Time to Register for the Annual Conference!
Writer’s Digest Annual Conference is excited to meet in person this August! More details will be available soon including a call for speakers, registration, etc. As time evolves we will post updates so be sure to check our website for the latest information.
Writer’s Digest Annual Conference offers everything you need to advance your writing career creatively and professionally. Gain invaluable tips to improve your craft, explore publishing options and learn how to establish a sustainable career—all while being inspired by successful authors and your fellow attendees. It’s all brought to you by Writer’s Digest, the experts at nurturing and developing writers at every stage of their career for over 100 years.
Deadline to Register is August 17!
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6 WDU Courses Begin This Week!
Writing the Personal Essay 101: Fundamentals
This course guides beginning and intermediate writers through elements of how to write a personal essay, helping them identify values expressed in their stories and bring readers into the experiences described. Writers learn how to avoid the dreaded responses of “so what?” and “I guess you had to be there” by utilizing sensory details, learning to trust their writing intuitions, and developing a skilled internal editor to help with revision.
Writing the Young Adult Novel
Are you new to writing fiction for young adults? Do you want to learn how to write a young adult book and break into the market? Let Writing the Young Adult Novel be your guide. When you take this workshop, you’ll get step-by-step instruction on writing for young adults and learn how to sell your novel.
Introduction to Copyediting
Copy editors are not the stars of the show when it comes to publishing and news media but they do help the stars to shine. If you’ve thought about becoming a copy editor but you’re not sure how to go about it, this is the course for you. It’s also a fitting course for college students who want to work for the school newspaper, creative writers who want to self-edit their manuscripts, teachers needing to brush up on the real-world basics for their English courses, and businesspeople striving to sound as competent and together on the page as they possibly can.
Build Your Novel Scene by Scene
If you want to learn how to write a story, but aren’t quite ready yet to hunker down and write 10,000 words or so a week, this is the course for you. Build Your Novel Scene by Scene will offer you the impetus, the guidance, the support, and the deadline you need to finally stop talking, start writing, and, ultimately, complete that novel you always said you wanted to write.
Research for Writers
Research matters for any prose writing project, in any genre. Ignoring it can imperil your project’s viability and believability. Yet being heavy-handed with research results can sink even the most fascinating project. In this online writing course, you will learn how to manage your research time and effort, and even become comfortable with it. You’ll learn how to find resources, streamline the process, and organize results.
12 Weeks to a First Draft
Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing course you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft.
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Article and Essay Pitch Clinic: Real-Time Pitching Advice!
Many people want to pitch publications but have no idea how to start. Others have great ideas but need some structure, and still others love pitching but haven’t been getting the hits they used to get in a crowded and ever-changing marketplace.
This live interactive pitching webinar will be a two-part webinar. In the first part, Estelle will share some pitching tenets, and in the second part, Estelle will provide off-the-cuff advice for people’s pitches that they read to her timed to a minute.
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