Thank you to my students
Thanks, thanks, thanks to my students for a great semester–I miss you already! xoxoxoxoxo
Videos
Become a better writer
Let’s face it: most prose is a little flabby. Don’t be embarrassed. Join us at “Become a Better Writer” and learn strategies you can use today to tighten and brighten your work. Create seamless prose, edit ruthlessly, hone your style, fulfill the writer-reader contract and more.
Tues., June 13, 7:30 to 9 a.m. Register
Location: Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21702
Self-publishing 101
Don’t let the powers that be stand between your book and its audience. Learn if self-publishing is the right choice for you and your work and let Write Directions demystify the process, step by clear step. Achieve your dreams!
Thurs, June 8 — 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Register
Self-publishing isn’t for every writer, but it has incredible advantages. You don’t have to get an agent or publisher’s approval, give up editorial and design control, or settle for miniscule royalties (if any). Rather, you are the one who determines your book’s content and look. You oversee its scheduling and production. And you create the winning marketing strategy that will connect you with loyal readers, whomever and wherever they may be. In sum: You determine your book’s fate—this session will show you how.
In this 90-minute class you will learn how to:
- Distinguish between the traditional (agent/publisher) and self-publishing models.
- Walk step-by-step through the self-publishing cycle, from idea to print and beyond.
- Recruit a self-publishing team, including book coach, designer, proofreader and printer.
- Create a budget for publishing and marketing your book.
- Identify possible roadblocks
Location: Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21702
Instructor Beth Mende Conny is the president of Write Directions and the founder of the Write Directions Institute. She has written, edited and ghosted more than four dozen books and midwifed dozens of others for her coaching clients. Beth also helps large and small businesses and not-for-profits publish books to expand their markets and develop intimate relationships with their clients and customers. Learn more about Beth, her coaching and critique services. Join Beth on Facebook.
File folders!
“Organizing” is often another word for procrastinating. Here is a truly quick and simple way to tame your writing projects with one of my favorite things in the world: file folders!
A writer’s guide to the portable office, part 4
On-the-go writers, you don’t have to make do with the back of a receipt and a pen you found in your glovebox. Especially for longer trips, these portable project solutions will ensure you can work as comfortably and confidently as you do at home.
A writer’s guide to the portable office, part 3
A desk that fits in your backpack means you always have a firm writing surface and you need never leave your post-its behind. A writer’s guide to the portable office, part III.
A writer’s guide to the portable office, part 2
Everything a traveling writer could need in one little box. You will have office supply envy! A writer’s guide to the portable office, part II.
A writer’s guide to the portable office, part 1
Don’t leave home without your “implements of construction.”
All about pens
I love having the right tool to inspire, to get the job done well. What are your favorite pens?
