November 2, 2023
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Five Steps To Perfect Your Story Structure
with Fictionary, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
The editing industry is full of secrets. And one of them is “All writers should perform their own story edit.” We’re talking about a structural edit of fiction. In this session, Kristina Stanley, CEO of Fictionary, will share with you why story editing is essential, she’ll show you the top 5 steps in a structural edit of a novel, and you’ll leave this session with actionable advice you can immediately apply to your book. She’ll also show the highlights of how easy it is to edit a novel in the Fictionary Software.
November 6, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: AI, Authors, and Editors: What You Need to Know Now
with MJ Courchesne, NAIWE’s Copyright & Permissions Expert
Cost: $30
Join us for this round-up of current issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and the world of creative content. We’ll review pending cases, as well as what the Copyright Office, publishers, creators, and some of the major associations representing creators and publishers have to say about generative AI. We’ll also explore some language you might see in contracts going forward and review some tips, tricks, and tools that may serve you as we move into a future where AI-generated content becomes more ubiquitous.
November 9, 2023
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Personal Branding for Writers and Editors (Part 2)
with Jeanne Grunert, NAIWE’s Branding and Marketing Expert
Cost: $30
Jeanne Grunert, NAIWE branding and marketing expert, will lead Part 2 of the workshop. In Part 2, participants will be encouraged to review their results from Part 1 and identify their own unique personal branding “calling cards”. Then, through various exercises, participants will develop their personal brand profile and leave the workshop with several ideas on how they can share their personal brand profile.
November 14, 2023
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: Methods for Managing Exposure of Self and Others in Memoir
with Suzanne Sherman, NAIWE’s Memoir Coach Expert
Cost: $30
Different from fiction, memoir can often lead a writer into some emotionally challenging territory. Writers often have to spend time exploring material that is essential for their book but is uncomfortable to dive into deeply to craft scenes and write an engaging narrative that includes what’s needed.
How do successful memoir authors do it? Jeannette Walls (The Glass Castle), Caroline Knapp (Drinking: A Love Story), and Vince Granata (Everything Is Fine) are just a few writers who have published critically acclaimed memoirs with emotionally challenging material in recent years. Cheryl Strayed (Wild) and Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) wrote bestselling memoirs that showcased their vulnerabilities without shame.
Suzanne Sherman will give you helpful tips and tested methods for navigating the emotional territory that can come with writing memoir so you can successfully include what is essential if you want to write a memoir. She will address self-exposure and the exposure of others and show ways other authors work with it. Suzanne will provide information about relevant legalities and discuss the pros and cons of pen names.
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to benefit your writing.
February 7, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
Webinar: APA Style Refresher for Writers and Editors
with Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, a NAIWE Benefit Partner
Cost: $20
In this session, APA Style experts will answer frequently asked questions about APA Style, note areas that copyeditors should watch for, dispel some APA Style myths, and share resources the APA Style team has created for learning APA Style.
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