Training
NAIWE offers a variety of webinars and teleconferences as a way to develop your professional skills.
April 30, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: A Detective Memoir
with Marcia Rosen, NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert
Cost: $30
A good detective needs to be tenacious and patient. A good detective needs to look at the truths of a situation and ask questions that get to the heart of the matter. Those same skills are needed to write a good memoir. How do you search for clues about your history and their impact on your life?
May 15, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Author Home Page
with Bowker, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
If you can click a mouse and type on a keyboard, you have all the skills you need to build your own great-looking website! Bowker has done the hard work for you and created a complete website solution specially designed for authors. You get all the elements you need to construct an eye-catching website that will attract and engage the readers you want to reach.
You may have started building your website with Author Home Page. To help you along, answer your questions, and show you how to take your website to the next level, join the creator of Author Home Page to hone your website-building skills.
May 20, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Getting the Most from Your Beta Readers
with Karin Beery, NAIWE’s Fiction Expert
Cost: $30
Beta readers can help authors clean up and strengthen their manuscripts without hiring an editor, but like editors, not all beta readers are the same. In this webinar, find out what to expect from beta readers, how to find good ones, and how you can help them help you polish your manuscript.
June 20, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: The Top 10 Decisions You Need to Make Before Writing a Series
with Fictionary, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
When writing a series, you have more artistic decisions to make than when you’re writing a standalone novel. If you make these decisions before you begin, you’ll end up with more work down the line.
In this event, Kristina Stanley, CEO of Fictionary, will cover the top 10 decisions, so you start your series from a structurally sound foundation. If you’re writing a series now, it’s not too late to check that you’ve got a structurally sound series.
June 24, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: All About Interviewing — from Both Sides
with Ruth Thaler-Carter, NAIWE’s Networking Expert
Cost: $30
Interviews are key to a variety of writing and editing work. Whether you’re doing an interview with a subject for a project or are the subject of one yourself, interviewing is an art and a skill. This webinar will focus on how to craft interviews that make the topic and subject come to life, along with tips on being a better subject oneself.
Ruth E. Thaler-Carter has been interviewing experts and colleagues on a wide range of topics for many years and has been the subject of varied interviews herself.
September 17, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Put Down the Pitchforks: How AI Can Be Your Fiction Ally
with Authors A.I., a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
Thousands of authors have begun using Marlowe, an analytical AI tool that provides comprehensive editorial feedback on your manuscript. The co-founders of Authors AI will show off the power of Marlowe, their fiction-loving AI that is trained on identifying the characteristics of bestselling novels. Upload your manuscript for free during the webinar and get an instant critique. Take away actionable tips on how to identify the major story beats, narrative arc, pacing and character traits of your novel, and see which bestsellers are your closest comps. Note: Marlowe is not a generative AI and won’t write a word of your novel for you. Sorry. (Not sorry!) Streamline your editing, be more productive, and take your author career to the next level!
January 7 – February 25, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Macros 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $199
Do you often perform the same tasks in Microsoft Word? How much time do you waste doing repetitive tasks at the beginning of each project? At the end? How about just in general throughout the editing process?
In this 8-week course, you will learn how to maximize your time by putting those repetitive tasks in a macro, allowing you to push one button and they are all done!
Some of the tasks that can be put into macros to speed up your process are auto formatting documents (font, size, color, margins, spacing between paragraphs, and double or single spacing documents), find and replace, adding comments, deleting comments, exporting comments, and other advanced concepts.
In addition, you will learn more than one way to create macros so you can create them in the way that is easiest for you!
Class Overview
- Macro Basics
- Find and Replace
- Introduction to Visual Basic
- Formatting a Word Document
- Find and Replace Macros
- Comments
- Combining Macros
- Advanced Macros