April 28, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Focus on the Book, Not the Movie
with Amy Yarsinske, NAIWE’s Nonfiction Expert
Cost: $30
If your book is successful enough, Hollywood may come to you. Or alternatively, if you have connections in the same, your book might find a home in film. However, book writers are not screenwriters, and they should not try to be. Instead, book writers should focus on developing an excellent book.
May 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: An Extra Set of Eyes: Using Draftsmith’s AI Checking to Help Maintain Your Editing Excellence
with Intelligent Editing (developers of PerfectIt), a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
Editors trade on their excellence. But guess what? No one can be at their best for the entire day. One of the best ways to make use of AI is to help sustain your excellence for longer. Draftsmith has been specifically designed for professionals working in Word who need to trust that the AI will not overwrite formatting, footnotes, citations, quotes, or hyperlinks. In this session, you’ll explore:
- The basics of how Draftsmith 2.0 works.
- How Draftsmith can be used to reduce word count, polish text, support ESL authors, improve readability, and help with plain English usage.
- Protecting data security and privacy while using AI with sensitive documents.
- What AI checking excels at and the editing tasks that should be left firmly in human hands.
January 8 – February 26, 2026
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
March 5 – April 2, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Course: Marketing 101
with April Michelle Davis, NAIWE’s Executive Director
Cost: $124
Marketing 101 teaches the fundamentals and theory of marketing your business. The main topics to be covered include the following:
- marketing ideas
- setting business goals and obtaining them through marketing
- branding (create your brand and use it to the fullest)
- developing and limiting social network connections
- overcoming cold calling fears
- developing processes for success.
Class Overview
- Marketing Goals
- Marketing Activities
- Branding
- Social Networking
- Cold Calling