Training
NAIWE offers a variety of webinars and teleconferences as a way to develop your professional skills.
February 13 – April 2, 2024
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 26, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Social Media Management Solutions for Book Editors (and Writers!)
with Officially Social, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
Alison Lukin, owner of Officially Social, will address the main roadblocks that stand in the way of social media success. She’ll give insight on content choices, calendars, and which platforms to use, along with other helpful hints — all for book editors! We’ll have a Q&A portion of the webinar, so have your questions ready. Lastly, she’ll present an affordable and effective content solution for book editors (along with a coupon code). Whether you’re a book editor or a writer, this webinar will be full of helpful advice to level up your social media presence.
March 27, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Exponential Energy
with Susan Treadgold, NAIWE’s Personal Energy Expert
Cost: $30
Join us for a masterclass with best-selling author Susan Treadgold as she unveils the secrets behind the six habits of high-performing women, with a focus on ENERGY. Susan Treadgold, international executive coach and an award-winning speaker, will share her wisdom gleaned from two decades in investment banking and a phenomenal 15-year coaching career.
Are you tired of feeling drained and overwhelmed? Ready to banish burnout once and for all? Drawing on a pool of extensive research driven, science-backed tools and strategies, Susan Treadgold will equip you with the keys to identify, master, and turbocharge your energy levels.
Brace yourself for a live event that will change the game.
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?
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, inteviewing 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!