WD Presents: 7 WDU Courses, An Upcoming Webinar, a Competition Deadline, and More!
This week, we’re excited to announce 7 WDU courses, an upcoming webinar, a competition deadline, 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 7 WDU courses, an upcoming webinar, a competition deadline, and more!
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Seven Online Writing Courses Start This Week!
Copyediting Certificate Program
This certification course incorporates critiqued writing assignments and tools to communicate directly with your instructor and fellow students to make sure that you are grasping the content. You will also have quizzes to check yourself along the way and a comprehensive test at the end of the course.
Business Writing
When you take this business writing workshop, you'll develop the skills necessary to survive in the business world as a writer. You will study Wilma Davidson's Business Writing: What Works, What Won't and discover practical advice for writing memos, business letters, reports, and other kinds of business documents.
Fearless Writing
In this workshop we’ll look at several techniques you can you use to keep yourself in the creative flow and out of the trouble and misery fear always causes.
Fitting Writing Into Your Life
Get a glimpse into the life of a professional writer and set realistic writing goals for yourself with this online workshop. When you take this workshop, you’ll learn to manage your time effectively, create a writing platform, practice strategies for writing, and read The Productive Writer by Sage Cohen.
Blogging 101
This online writing workshop will guide you through the entire blogging process—how to create and setup a blog, where to start, and much more. You’ll learn how to attract readers and how to market your writing. Start a successful blog today and get noticed by editors and publishers.
Getting Started in Writing
When you take this online writing workshop, you'll discover your voice, learn the basics of grammar and examine the different types of writing. No matter what type of writing you're planning on crafting—nonfiction or fiction—you'll need guidance along the way.
Short Story Fundamentals
Throughout this four-week workshop, you will have feedback and support while you write and hone an entire short story from beginning to end, and you'll leave with a polished draft of your story. You will get insider information about what editors are looking for in short stories they choose to publish. Literary journals are always looking for quality stories, and with the advances in online submissions, getting your work in front of an editor has never been easier.
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Last Chance to Sign Up for This NaNoWriMo Webinar!
Your story matters. NaNoWriMo is all about getting that story on the page. If something has been holding you back from writing your novel—whether it be lack of time, lack of motivation, or just plain fear—then bestselling NaNoWriMo writer Rachael Herron and NaNoWriMo Executive Director Grant Faulkner will tell how National Novel Writing Month helped get their creative juices flowing so that they could write the novel of their dreams.
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Enter our Short Short Story Competition!
We’re looking for short fiction stories! Think you can write a winning story in 1,500 words or less? Enter the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for your chance to win $3,000 in cash, get published in Writer’s Digest magazine, and a paid trip to our ever-popular Writer’s Digest Conference! Deadline is November, 15, 2021.
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