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How to Begin (And Maintain) Your Career as a Writer
John Robin
Are about to begin your career as a writer? This course explores the aspects of what’s involved with launching a book (both traditional and self-published) and the habits that allow you to not only begin but sustain your writing career.
How to Market Your Book Online
John Robin
Are you about to publish an e-book? Whether you’re self-publishing or taking the traditional route, if you want to learn the fundamentals of marketing a book online, this 10-lesson course will help you optimize sales and build long-term relationships with your fans.
Enhance Your Creativity
K.C. Finn
Writers, artists, dramatists, role players, and game designers: What do they all have in common? An incredibly creative mind, ready to invent, receive, and transform ideas into pieces of art that win awards and become bestsellers and crowd favorites. This course teaches real techniques to prime your brain for powerful creativity. You’ll learn how to remove stress, fear, and negativity from the creative process, as well as how to kickstart your brain into creative thinking with mindfulness, enforcement, and even playtime!
How to Write Best-Selling, Award-Winning Fiction
K.C. Finn
There is a fine balance between writing high-quality fiction that’s good enough to win awards and writing fiction that is also accessible and attractive to make great sales. This course teaches the fundamentals of both good writing and good marketing sense so that you too can produce the best books you’ve ever written—and make a living from them.
No More Writer's Block!
Marcia Yudkin
Whether you've put off work on your firm's annual report or the Great American Novel, the "No More Writer's Block!" course gives you the practical tools and attitudes you need to cast off your habitual excuses for not writing and lick procrastination for good. Discover the five elements of discipline, the five elements of inspiration, and five writing techniques that enable you to get a lot of writing done in a small amount of time. Based on years of creativity research, the techniques and concepts in this audio course were tested at dozens of workshops and in one-on-one coaching with...
Proofreading Hacks: Catch Those Pesky Typos Every Time
Marcia Yudkin
If you have a reasonable grasp of English but keep getting caught with written bloopers, or if you've been tasked with proofreading other people's work, this course is for you. In eight entertaining and informative lessons, you'll learn the best methods for finding and fixing mistakes, which writing situations trip up proofreaders the most, and ways to get better and better at producing error-free text. You'll also hear how to resist arguments that typos and grammar mistakes don't matter, with real-life examples and scientific studies demonstrating the high cost of some proofing goofs.
Sizzling Sound Bites
Marcia Yudkin
Earn public attention with condensed, captivating, memorable phrases. Whether you're a public speaker, writer, advertiser, entrepreneur, or advocate for change, learn a step-by-step process for thinking up newsworthy slogans, tag lines, titles, monikers, and sound bites for the media. Discover the best methods for brainstorming, extending and refining your message, arranging a catchy rhythm, and applying essential criteria for selecting the wording that works best. Use the resulting sound bites for social media, investor pitches, ads, blog headlines, and more.
Brainstorming a Better Book Title
Marcia Yudkin
What to call your book? It's a dilemma with many novelists, nonfiction authors, and writers of children's books gnashing their teeth. Others give their book title little thought, only to discover later that they've made a massive error. This course gives you an effective title-finding process to follow. More than a hundred analyzed examples make the stakes of this search very real. Discover how to avoid titles that could cause problems for your book, and learn how to identify, select, and refine your best options.
Get Inspired: Explore Your City
Rich Armstrong
We all want to produce better work — in our own way and style. We want to create something meaningful and make a difference. And for this we need inspiration. But too often we go after convenient inspiration, rather than effective inspiration. This class is about getting inspired by the city you live in or nearby. You'll learn why getting away from your desk and devices, and planning a day exploring your city, will inspire you in a deeper, truer, and more authentic way. The course covers where to go, what to bring, how to explore, and a bunch of other tips.
Ten Editing Techniques to Perfect Your Fiction Writing
K.C. Finn
We’re all looking for that perfect, clean edit when we’ve completed our masterpiece novel or story, but how do you get it just right? This course teaches techniques for spotting typos and semantic errors, as well as how to replace useless speech tags, adverbs, and passive verbs with more dynamic text. It also employs dramatic techniques to check your dialogue and sentence length, as well as analytical tests to organize, structure, and simplify your work to its very best form.