Workshops

Editor Unleashed Online Workshops

It’s time to get serious about your writing and there’s no better place to do it than here. Editor Unleashed is offering an all-new series of interactive group workshops led by enthusiastic professional writers and editors. We offer an extremely flexible schedule. These workshops are perfect if you have a busy life but still want to make time for your writing.

The workshops take place on a private Editor Unleashed forum that allows for posting, editing, critiquing and chatting with your fellow workshop members and leader. Each workshop will be limited to 10 members. You’ll get more personal attention here than in any other online writing workshop and find leaders who strive to help you succeed in meeting your writing goals.

Here are descriptions of our upcoming workshops. Please check back frequently—we’ll be adding even more soon!

Marketing: Query Letter Clinic, with Maria Schneider

Description: No matter what you’re writing and trying to sell—a novel, a memoir, or a magazine article—the essential step in marketing your work is a compelling, well-crafted query letter.

In this workshop you will:
• Learn the basic template of a good query letter from relevant examples.
• Develop your lead paragraph into a compelling hook to attract agents and editors.
• Summarize your project into a coherent one-paragraph summary.
• Find out what biographical information to include and not include and what drives editors crazy.
• Finish the Workshop with at least one strong, polished query letter to start sending out to agents and editors.
Start date: Monday, March 16, 2009
Duration: 4 Weeks
Fee: $125

Questions: E-mail Maria

Online writing: Blogging 101, with Maria Schneider

Description: Every writer needs to have an online presence today, and the very best way to get started building your web cred is with your own blog. Take this crash course in blogging and get started now.

In this workshop you will:
• Start your own hosted wordpress.com blog (set-up is free).
• Brainstorm names to help you start building your blog identity.
• Develop posts that are relevant to your readership.
• Learn good blog etiquette and tips for building your readership.
Start date: Monday, March 16, 2009
Duration: 4 Weeks
Fee: $125

Questions: E-mail Maria

Fiction Writing: Make a Scene, with Jordan E. Rosenfeld

Description: Scenes are the building blocks of great fiction. This workshop will teach you the basics and then some for writing powerful, concise, page-turning scenes. This workshop is appropriate for writers of all levels.

In this Workshop you will:
• Learn how to construct the basic architecture of a scene.
• Develop your characters and their motivations.
• Make every scene count toward the overall plot.
• Learn the crucial scene types such as opening scene and flashback.
• Find out how to make more effective transitions between scenes.
Start date: Monday, March 16, 2009
Duration: 6 Weeks
Fee: $300

Questions: E-mail Jordan

Fiction Writing: Fiction Workshop Intensive, with Jordan E. Rosenfeld

Description: This workshop is for writers who have a complete or nearly complete manuscript for a novel or short story collection and are ready for an intensive group workshop experience.

In this workshop you will:
• Get highly individualized critiquing and feedback on a weekly basis from your workshop leader.
• Receive professional editing and formatting suggestions.
• Participate in group critiques.
• Workshop a novel chapter (of fewer than 3,000 words) or one short story per week.
Start date: Monday, March 16, 2009
Duration: 6 Weeks
Fee: $300

Questions: E-mail Jordan

Workshop Leader Bios

Maria Schneider is the owner and editor of Editor Unleashed. As the former editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, she’s spent years devoted to writing and publishing and has mentored countless writers. She’s enjoyed a varied publishing career online and in print including writing and editing for magazines including reviewing fiction for Publishers Weekly.

Jordan E. Rosenfeld is a freelance editor and author of the popular fiction writing book, Make a Scene (Writer’s Digest Books). She’s also a contributing editor of Writer’s Digest and author of the book, with Rebecca Lawton, Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life (BeijaFlor Books).