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MINI-DESCRIPTIONS:
|
Teacher |
Length |
Cost |
| Be
Your Own Literary Agent
|
Learn
the steps needed to sell and promote your book (and
yourself) to publishers with little or no cost to
you! Beginning with the basics of promoting yourself,
this course shows you how to write media releases,
develop your own media kit, and explore other ways
to get the word out!
|
|
|
$150
|
| Body-Build
Your Story |
Does
your story bulge in the wrong places, lie flaccid
when it should exude strength?
|
Patrika
Vaughn
|
|
$100
|
| Book
Promotion
|
Even
the best book won't sell unless people know it's
available. Learn how to present your book for greater
sales whether you have a publisher or are self-publishing.
|
Patrika
Vaughn
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Book
Promotion Timetable Workshop
|
All
authors, whether self-published or published by a
publishing house, must take major responsibility
for the promotion of their books. Learn what needs
to happen and when each step should be taken.
|
Patrika
Vaughn
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
Book
Reviews
|
When
you read a book, you always have an opinion about
it, don’t you? Well, why not turn that opinion
into cash by writing book reviews? How do you get
books to review and where are the best places to
peddle your freelance reviews after you’ve
written them?
|
Sandra
Louden
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Choosing
Your Voice |
Are
you telling your stories in the most convincing, most
dramatic voice? |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Creating
Characters |
Write
such full characters that their arms and legs stick
out when you try to close the book! |
Jana
Lynn Shellman
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Creating
History |
A
place for historical and fantasy novelists to acquire
or polish the skills needed for the writing that
comes before and between the writing. Upon completion
of this course, the student will be able to identify
and categorize primary, secondary and third party
resources, demonstrate how those differences effect
their stories, and explain why each type of resource
is necessary for the creation of fictional/fantasy
worlds.
|
Peggy
Ulman Bell
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Dialect
Writing |
Dialect
is heard with the eyes. |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
8
weeks
|
$200
|
| Dialogue |
Dialogue
is what makes your writing - fiction or non fiction
- come alive for readers. Learn how to make dialogue
work for you- to develop character, advance your
plot, impart information, show conflict or tension,
set the mood, and make readers part of the action.
|
Patrika
Vaughn
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Editing for Writers |
Self-editing
is probably the most difficult part of writing. Fine
tuning the manuscript, seeing the flaws, imagining
how the words sound to the reader, and then garnering
the courage to rework them is daunting. ... During
this class, we’ll work on toning things down,
tightening things up—a diet for your manuscript.
|
Cindy Davis |
6
weeks |
$150 |
| Gothic
Writing |
Gothic
Novels are hot today. Several other genres
popular today have descended from them too, including Horror and Gothic Romance.
But what are Gothics? How do you write them? And
how are Horror and Gothic Romance
similar to them? How are they different? And how do you convert and incorporate
Gothic
forms into Horror and Dark Romance?
|
Ayn Hunt |
6
weeks |
$150 |
Grammar
for Writers and Editors
|
Writing
is communication: whatever else writing does, however
beautiful it is, if it does not communicate, it does
nothing. To communicate, the words need a structure
that enables the writer to convey his or her ideas
to the reader in a way the reader can understand. Grammar
provides that structure. |
Irene
Davis
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Greeting
Card Writing: Short, Doable, Profitable |
Could
you use extra money, writing in a field that's still
largely untapped and undiscovered? |
Sandra
Louden
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Haiku
and Zen Poetry |
Learn
the most important techniques in the composition of
haiku and Zen poetry. |
Daniel
Delanu
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| How-To
Articles: Quick and Simple |
Tap
into the knowledge you already have inside your head
from daily life and make money. |
Mary
Jo Rulnick
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| How-To
Books
|
Have
knowledge to share? Use it to write a How-To book!
Writing about your interest or expertise is one of
the easiest ways to get published.
|
Dorothy
Zjawin
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Magazine
Articles |
Learn
how to write a standard nonfiction magazine article.
|
Stephen
Morrill
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Magazine
Query Letters |
Learn
to write a query letter that can attract the interest
of an editor and clinch the sale. |
Stephen
Morrill
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Make
'Em Care! |
How
do you get readers of fiction to identify with your
characters? How do you create empathy in nonfiction
readers? |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Memoir
Lane
|
Designed
to help you write your memoir. |
Michael & Jennifer
Dearmin
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Mystery Novel |
Beginning
in the mid-1800s with Edgar Allen Poe’s dark tales, mysteries
have increased in popularity over the years; today
they’re one of the hottest markets in the fiction
genre.
|
Cindy
Davis |
8 weeks |
$200 |
| Newspaper
Feature Articles: Getting Human Interest
Stories Into Print |
Learn
the basics of writing feature articles for newspapers.
Learn what features articles are (or aren't), how
to get ideas for them, what makes a good feature,
interviewing tips, and the anatomy of a feature.
|
Elsie
Walker
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Nonfiction
Freelance Writing Business |
The
course is intended to teach you how to MARKET yourself
and how to run the BUSINESS of nonfiction writing on
a freelance basis. |
Stephen
Morrill
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Openings
that Hook Readers |
Every
opening, fiction or nonfiction, has three functions.
Learn what they are, plus eight opening techniques
for accomplishing them. |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
|
|
Being
able to take photos, or find photos, to accompany
your writing can help sell the story, keep control
over your work, and even earn you extra money.
|
Stephen
Morrill
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Poetry
Advanced Workshop |
An
intensive, eight week poetry workshop in which we'll
be dealing with poetry written in prescribed forms
as well as open form "free verse" poetry,
and the prose poem |
Paul
Haenel
|
8
weeks
|
$200
|
| Poetry
Fundamentals |
This
course teaches approaches, understandings, and paths
to attitudes that allow us to better learn what might
unlock the poetry that's in all of us. |
Paul
Haenel
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Promotional
Writing |
Learn
the basics of writing promotional materials for businesses
and professionals including press releases, flyers,
slogans/mottos, sales letters, brochures, three piece
mailer, layout/graphics, marketing, and pricing. |
Michael & Jennifer
Dearmin
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
|
|
No,
we’re not talking about boring school tests or
those nasty “pop quizzes” we all hated.
These are the quizzes in magazines and in the Sunday
section of your newspaper most of us can’t resist
taking. They are fast to write—and fun to take.
The two main types of quizzes – lifestyle and “fast
factual” will be covered. |
Sandra
Louden |
4
weeks |
$100 |
| Researching
and Interviewing |
Learn
to to find information, locate and interview experts,
learn how to apply the rules of rigorous scholarship
to your findings, and learn how to stay out of legal
trouble while doing all this. |
Stephen
Morrill
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Romance
Novel Writing |
Learn
everything from coming up with a story idea to preparing
a completed manuscript for sale in this popular genre.
|
Brenda
Hiatt Barber
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
Screenplay
Writing
Before
You Fade In: Structuring & Outlining Your Screenplay
|
Learn
to navigate the important pre-writing work of organizing
the story of their potential screenplay into the
time-tested structure almost all screenplays follow.
|
Beth
Danesco
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Seniors
Do Write! |
An
introductory course for mature students who want
to explore their writing potential. We will fuel
the fire already smoldering within your own life
experiences.
|
Michael & Jennifer
Dearmin
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Seven
Common Writing Problems and How to Solve
Them |
Something
not working in your fiction or nonfiction? Here's your
chance to examine the seven most common problems that
keep a manuscript from being publishable. |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
8
weeks
|
$200
|
Short
Stories
|
Short
fiction is unlike longer fiction in more ways than
length. This course will help you understand the
basic structure of the short story, how to develop
your own style when writing one, and the importance
and process of revision.
|
Jan
Sparkman
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
Small
Press and
Self-Publishing
|
An
overview of the booming small press and self-publishing
industries, and how you may secure your place in
it.
|
Patricia
J. Bell
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Speech
Writing |
Adding
speechwriting skills to your writer's toolkit can make
you more marketable. Public relations firms, businesses,
local government officials, nonprofit organizations,
etc., need people with this skill. |
Elsie
Walker
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Stalking
the Markets |
Avoid
rejections. Learn how to target the best markets for
everything you write. |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Start
Here |
What
you need to know before you write to help you
write like a pro from Day One. Dump your fears; get
control of your writing. Here are the steps to help
you build a solid foundation for everything you write. |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Stop
Talking About It; Just Write |
This
highly motivational and inspirational course is designed
for writers of all levels and all genres. You will
be encouraged to work through any blocks that are holding
you back or slowing down your writing. |
Susan
Farewell
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
Striptease
Writing
(Show,
Don't Tell)
|
Good
writing reveals rather than explains. Learn to get
out of the way and let readers experience the episodes,
events and people you're writing about. |
Patrika
Vaughn
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Technical
Writing |
Learn
the mechanics of user guide writing and get you a feel
for the field of technical writing. |
Elsie
Walker
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| Technical
Writing Workshop |
This
workshop is for students who have already taken the
course, Technical Writing. |
Elsie
Walker
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| The
Isolated Writer
|
Are
you an isolated writer because of location, physical
disabilities, young children or another reason? This
class teaches how to turn this to your advantage. |
Joy
Rothke
|
4
weeks
|
$100
|
| The
Writer in You |
Nobody
was born writing; all of us had to learn. This course
will explore some of the more effective methods of
communication through the written word. All that is
asked of you is that you try. |
Michael & Jennifer
Dearmin
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Travel
Writing |
For
writers (or want-to-be) writers who are interested
in writing and selling articles about travel. Nuts
and bolts information, as well as inspirational and
motivational techniques for making it all happen. |
Susan
Farewell
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Writing
for Fun and Profit |
For "prepublished" writers.
Students will focus on a variety of writing techniques,
journaling processes, writing, editing and marketing
strategies and will apply them to either a work in
progress, or will develop a new project. |
Alyce
M. Skelton
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
| Writing
Through Loss |
Explore
a variety of writing techniques to help deal with losses
of all kinds. Journaling as well as other eclectic
writing strategies will help you access creative energy,
work through the grieving and tap into joy. |
Alyce
M. Skelton
|
6
weeks
|
$150
|
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