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Publish Your Writing
Creative Writing that Creates Income!
with Ned McIntosh

REGISTRATION:

COST, LENGTH, PREREQUISITES:

No prerequisites.

Regular course: $180 / 6 weeks. Click here to register

Extended schedule: $225 / 12 weeks. Click here to register
Extended course gives you two weeks to do each lesson but contains NO additional material.

For questions about this COURSE, e-mail User590348@aol.com

This six-week course is designed to coach students how to prepare to submit for publication, primarily to magazines and newspapers, with literary contests offering another challenge. The course offers a series of progressive one-page Teaching Guides of the crafts of writing and submitting, leading up to the specific goals of submitting works for publication. The course should help determine whether the student has both the talent and drive necessary to become a published author.

WEEK ONE: Write and submit a one page sample of your writing, if not done at registration Read the Introduction to “Writing to Get Published” Read Resource Pages:

(1) Standard Lengths of Manuscripts
(2) Standard Proofreading Markets

Homework Assignments

• Review critique of one-page sample of your writing
• Read One-Page Teaching Guides on the crafts of writing and submitting: “Show, Don’t Tell” “Eliminate ‘Weedy Words’ and Other Superfluous Words”

WEEK TWO: Review the Homework Teaching Guides from WEEK ONE

Homework Assignments for WEEK TWO

• Write and submit a one paragraph description (Show, Don’t Tell)
• Write and submit a one paragraph characterization (Show, Don’t Tell) Read one-page Teaching Guides: What is Fiction? Creating Characters Touting Tantalizing Titles Creating Conflict
• Select a Working Title for your Short Story
• Prepare a rough outline for your Short Story, with Beginning, Middle and End

WEEK THREE: Review the Homework Teaching Guides from WEEK TWO Review the critique of one paragraph Description for WEEK TWO Review the critique of your one paragraph Characterization for WEEK TWO Review the critique of the Working Title and Outline for your short story

Homework Assignments for WEEK THREE

• Write and submit to your instructor the first draft of your Short Story
• Read one-page Teaching Guides Plot Point of View Writing and Punctuating Dialogue List of Magazines/Newspapers for Submissions Read article, “You’ve Got to Accentuate the Positive,” published by Writers Journal and written by your Instructor.

WEEK FOUR: Review the Homework Teaching Guides for WEEK THREE Review critique of the first draft of your Short Story Revise and submit to your Instructor the final draft of your Short Story, ready to submit Choose at least five magazines for submission of your Short Story

Homework Assignment for WEEK FOUR

• Write and submit outline for your first nonfiction article
• Write and submit Working Title(s) for your nonfiction article
• Read one-page Teaching Guides The Five W’s: “What, Who, Why, When and Where” in nonfiction How to Write a ‘How-to” Article How to Write a Query Letter

WEEK FIVE: Review the Homework Teaching Guides for WEEK FOUR Review the critique of the outline and title of your first nonfiction article

• Write the first draft of your nonfiction article
• Write the first draft of a Query Letter for your Short Story
• Write the first draft of a Query Letter for your Nonfiction Article
• Choose at least five magazines/newspapers for submission of your Nonfiction Article
• Read Homework teaching guides How to write a Cover Letter How to write a Synopsis How to write a Resume

WEEK SIX Review the Homework Teaching Guides for WEEK FIVE

• Review the critique of the first draft of your Nonfiction Article
• Write the revised nonfiction article, based on the critique of the first draft.
• Review the final draft of your Short Story
• Review the final draft of your Query Letter for your Short Story
• Review the final draft of your Nonfiction Article
• Review the final choices of magazines for the submission of your Short Story
• Review the final choices of magazines/newspapers for the submission of your Article

Your Instructor is Edwin J. McIntosh, who writes under the pen name of Ned McIntosh. He lives in Berlin, Maryland with his wife Elaine and Golden Retriever, “Misty,” has six grown children and seven grandchildren. He enjoys gardening, sailing, Little League Baseball and Community Theater. Ned has a Master’s Degree in Education, and has taught courses in Creative Writing at the college level. As a writer, he has authored four books, published by McGraw-Hill. The most successful book has sold over 100,000 copies internationally, in three editions. As a freelance writer he has had over 150 by-line articles published in magazines and newspapers, has received 19 awards for writing, and has been the playwright and producer of two community-theater musicals. His professional background was in corporate marketing for 20+ years, but he elected to devote full time to writing and teaching when his marketing company was acquired by a New York firm.