WDU Presents: 7 New WDU Courses, a Chance at Publication, and More!
This week, we’re excited to announce seven new WDU courses, a chance at publication, 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 seven new WDU courses, a chance at publication, and more!
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Seven Online Writing Courses Start This Week!
Book Coaching for Advanced Writers
Join Mark Spencer in an intensive 16-week coaching session focused entirely on your novel in progress. You'll work with Mark on your choice of up to 60,000 words of your novel or two drafts of up to 30,000 words each.
Throughout the course, you'll use readings from Mark's writer's guide, Fiction Club, to help you along the way. This valuable resource is included in the course material. All you'll need to bring to this course is your manuscript in process and the willingness to work hard!
21 Days To Your Novel Outline and Synopsis
This course is designed to help you understand how to craft a winning premise, how to outline your novel, and then how to take both of those things and assemble a synopsis that will act as a guide for you to write your novel and sell it.
Creativity and Expression
When you take this online workshop, you’ll explore creative writing topics and learn how descriptive writing can breathe life into your characters, setting, and plot with Rebecca McClanahan’s Word Painting. Stretch your imagination, develop your creative writing skills, and express your creativity with this writing workshop.
Freelance Writing for Stay at Home Moms (and Dads)
When you take Freelance Writing for Stay-At-Home Moms, you’ll read Writer Mama by Christina Katz and discover what your areas of expertise are, who you want to write for (your audience), how to network with other freelance writers and stay-at-home moms, and practical advice for developing your career as a freelance writer. By the end of this workshop, you’ll feel confident in your ability to write, research, and pitch ideas—and you’ll be closer to accomplishing your goal of making money while doing what you love: writing.
Form and Composition
Proper grammar, punctuation, and mechanics make your writing correct. In order to truly write well, you must also master the art of form and composition. From sentence structure to polishing your prose, this workshop will enhance your writing, no matter what type of writing you do.
Writing the Middle Grade Book
Throughout this 8-week course, you can expect to read lectures and complete weekly writing assignments. Plus, you will read The Writer’s Guide to Crafting Stories for Children by Nancy Lamb and learn how to write a middle-grader’s book. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll be able to write the book for the middle-grader you’ve always wanted.
Writing Women's Fiction
You’re not sure how to describe women’s fiction, but when you read it, you know that’s the kind of novel you want to write. They’re the stories you relate to, that grab your heart and your imagination. They make you feel as if you know the characters, as if you’re sharing the journey. But how can you be sure that the story you write fits into the genre you love and captures and keeps your reader’s attention?
By identifying the essential elements that make up women’s fiction, gaining the insight to see inside your main character, and honing the skills needed to bring women’s fiction to life on the page.
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Our New From Our Readers Question is Now Up!
Our upcoming January/February 2022 issue is focused on success. So, we would love to know how you define success in your writing career, and if that definition has changed since you started your journey!
Click here for the formal question and for where to comment for a chance at publication.
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Our September/October 2021 Issue is Now Available!
Standout Storytelling is the lifeblood of most creative writing, from short stories and poetry to novels and memoirs, and it’s the theme of our September/October 2021 issue. We’ve curated a selection of features and articles to inform and inspire writers of all types on their quest to write better and share their stories.
Click here to order your copy today!
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