WD Presents: 6 WDU Courses, Nailing Your Novel’s Tone Webinar, and More!
This week, we’re excited to announce six WDU courses, our Nailing Your Novel’s Tone webinar, and more!
There's always so much happening in the Writer's Digest universe that even staff members have trouble keeping up. As a result, we decided to start collecting what's on the horizon to make it easier for everyone to know what's happening and when.
This week, we're excited to announce six WDU courses, our Nailing Your Novel's Tone webinar, and more!
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6 WDU Courses Begin This Week!
12 Weeks to a First Draft
Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing course you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft.
Advanced Novel Writing
Push yourself beyond your comfort zone and take your writing to new heights with this novel writing course, designed specifically for novelists who are looking for detailed feedback on their work. When you take this online course, you won't have weekly reading assignments or lectures. Instead, you'll get to focus solely on completing your novel.
Pitch an Article: Write for Today's Marketplace
This intensive two-week course will teach you how to craft a good pitch letter and do it well. Be ready to mine your life for ideas. Start thinking about a great spin on a topic or an unusual personal experience that you'd like to write about in class.
Writing Historical Fiction
Join Donna Russo Morin to learn the definition of historical markers and how and where to unearth them. And uncover the tools to integrate history, research, and the fiction plot arc. Most of all, find out how to honor verisimilitude—the goal of any historical writing—and avoid the dreaded anachronism.
Writing the Mystery Novel
Do you love reading a good mystery? Have you always wanted to write one? During the Essentials of Mystery Writing course, you'll have the choice of creating a brand new mystery story from scratch or working with a story you already have in progress. Spend six weeks on your craft while receiving feedback from a published mystery author!
Writing Women's Fiction
You’re not sure how to describe women’s fiction, but when you read it, you know that’s the kind of novel you want to write. They’re the stories you relate to, that grab your heart and your imagination. They make you feel as if you know the characters, as if you’re sharing the journey. But how can you be sure that the story you write fits into the genre you love and captures and keeps your reader’s attention?
By identifying the essential elements that make up women’s fiction, gaining the insight to see inside your main character, and honing the skills needed to bring women’s fiction to life on the page.
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Nail Your Novel (or Memoir’s) Voice and Tone
Agents and editors are always talking about the importance of voice. But what is it? Can you even identify it in your own work? Every genre has its own unique signatures that readers come to expect, known as voice and tone. These elements make it possible to identify the genre within a few pages and often reflect the personality, mood and spirit of your characters and your themes. Nailing your novel (or memoir's) voice and tone will not only make sure you’re meeting readers’ expectations, but it can increase your chance of publication. Nailing voice and tone goes a long way toward writing memorable characters with page turning stories that readers can’t put down.
This live webinar will demonstrate these two terms through powerful examples from contemporary fiction/memoir, and explain how to use such things as word choice, syntax, character personality, and more to consciously create them in your work.
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Calling All Agents and Editors!
We're looking for literary agents and editors to join us in New York this summer for the Writer's Digest Annual Conference!
For nearly 15 years, the annual conference has inspired emerging writers through creative writing sessions, keynote speeches from bestselling authors, and more. We're proud to say many writing careers have begun at the WD Annual Conference.
We're so excited to grow this year's annual Pitch Slam—an opportunity for writers to pitch their manuscripts to agents—by adding even more agents to the roster. If you're an agent or an editor and you're interested in joining us this year for the Pitch Slam on Friday, August 18, please send us an email at writersdigestconference@aimmedia.com with your name, your agency (if applicable) along with "WD Annual Conference Pitch Slam" in the subject line, and we'll be in touch with more information!
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