Training
NAIWE offers a variety of webinars and teleconferences as a way to develop your professional skills.
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July 25, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: How Would You Price It? A Practical Approach to Estimating
with Jake Poinier, NAIWE’s Freelance Expert
Cost: $30
Freelance pricing isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition — and overlooking the nuances can leave you feeling overworked and underpaid. In this webinar, Jake “Dr. Freelance” Poinier discusses the principles of estimating, incorporating a range of diverse practice examples with real-world project descriptions and client scenarios.
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August 21, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Remember Your Editor When You Write
with Amy Waters Yarsinske, NAIWE’s Nonfiction Expert
Cost: $30
A funny thing happened on the way to editing a large manuscript . . . A case of first impressions – not good ones – ended the editing effort before the end of the first chapter . . . section . . . it was hard to tell. The submission had come from someone who was not a writer but the publisher was anxious to acquire the subject matter for publication. This meant, for me, a book doctoring job more than an edit but it was proposed as a straight edit, oh, and sight unseen. But the manuscript was in bad shape on arrival and impossible to follow. When it takes months to plow through one “chapter” of a book of undefined scope, it is not an editing gig. This book forced me to wear two hats: developmental and copy editor – in basic terms – a book doctor with a patient on life support. Let’s talk about it.
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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!
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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
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March 4 – April 1, 2025
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