Missed the Opportunity to Attend the Bethel Writer’s Workshop?
Tue, Jun 2007 05:46 | Permalink
I’m Still Available to Help you Reach your Writing Dreams
Since presenting a few workshops at the recent Bethel Writer’s Workshop, people have been asking me if I am available for manuscript critique and editorial consultation on their non-fiction books in progress. I would love to help you reach your writing dreams! For those of you who missed the Bethel Writer’s workshop – well, you missed a good time of inspiration, practical information about writing and publishing, and impartation of creativity. But you haven’t missed out completely…
What a joy if was for me to impart practical information for aspiring writers, helping them understand how to write for publication and inspiring them to go for their dreams. Many came to the recent Bethel Writer’s workshop with projects in hand wondering if they should pursue the ideas that danced in their heads and release them into words. They were all good ideas…even God ideas. It just takes time to learn how to package their words into marketable articles and books and know how to get them published.
I am still available to help aspiring writers reach their dreams and release the messages contained within.
Manuscript Critiques Available
If you would like your manuscript critiqued, feel free to send it to me. While I cannot give you the conference rate, I will charge $50 for up to 15 pages of your article(s) or non-fiction book project. The critiques will give you ideas to strengthen the work and direction for publication possibilities.
Book Proposal Review and Editorial Consultations
Many of you have whole books in progress and wonder how to submit it to a publisher. It all starts with drafting a strong book proposal and polishing the first few sample chapters. For those of you who have non-fiction books in progress, I would be happy to help guide you through the proposal writing process and give direction on publishing within the Evangelical and Charismatic book markets as well as insight into publishing through non-conventional markets. I charge $300 for editorial consultation on proposals and sample chapters.
Writing and Publishing your Articles
A 14 week Personal Mentoring Course
“Write what you know,” we’re told. But if your goal is to write magazine articles, “what you know” and “what they’ll publish” isn’t always the same thing. We’ll examine what makes good material for magazine articles and launch you into drafting marketable ideas. By the end of the course you will have 2-5 articles drafted and ready for publication. Not only that, but you will know where to send them and how to get an editor to sit up and take notice. The course fee includes weekly personal feedback on your class projects. Start anytime. The fee is $400…and you will likely make that amount back in article sales by the end of the course. Email me for details if you are interested.
Since presenting a few workshops at the recent Bethel Writer’s Workshop, people have been asking me if I am available for manuscript critique and editorial consultation on their non-fiction books in progress. I would love to help you reach your writing dreams! For those of you who missed the Bethel Writer’s workshop – well, you missed a good time of inspiration, practical information about writing and publishing, and impartation of creativity. But you haven’t missed out completely…
What a joy if was for me to impart practical information for aspiring writers, helping them understand how to write for publication and inspiring them to go for their dreams. Many came to the recent Bethel Writer’s workshop with projects in hand wondering if they should pursue the ideas that danced in their heads and release them into words. They were all good ideas…even God ideas. It just takes time to learn how to package their words into marketable articles and books and know how to get them published.
I am still available to help aspiring writers reach their dreams and release the messages contained within.
Manuscript Critiques Available
If you would like your manuscript critiqued, feel free to send it to me. While I cannot give you the conference rate, I will charge $50 for up to 15 pages of your article(s) or non-fiction book project. The critiques will give you ideas to strengthen the work and direction for publication possibilities.
Book Proposal Review and Editorial Consultations
Many of you have whole books in progress and wonder how to submit it to a publisher. It all starts with drafting a strong book proposal and polishing the first few sample chapters. For those of you who have non-fiction books in progress, I would be happy to help guide you through the proposal writing process and give direction on publishing within the Evangelical and Charismatic book markets as well as insight into publishing through non-conventional markets. I charge $300 for editorial consultation on proposals and sample chapters.
Writing and Publishing your Articles
A 14 week Personal Mentoring Course
“Write what you know,” we’re told. But if your goal is to write magazine articles, “what you know” and “what they’ll publish” isn’t always the same thing. We’ll examine what makes good material for magazine articles and launch you into drafting marketable ideas. By the end of the course you will have 2-5 articles drafted and ready for publication. Not only that, but you will know where to send them and how to get an editor to sit up and take notice. The course fee includes weekly personal feedback on your class projects. Start anytime. The fee is $400…and you will likely make that amount back in article sales by the end of the course. Email me for details if you are interested.
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Personal Mentoring Course on Article Writing
Tue, Jun 2007 05:46 | Permalink
A personal mentoring course on writing and publishing your articles
“Write what you know,” we’re told. But if your goal is to write magazine articles, “what you know” and “what they’ll publish” isn’t always the same thing. We’ll examine what makes good material for magazine articles and launch you into drafting marketable ideas. By the end of the course you will have 2-5 articles drafted and ready for publication. Not only that, but you will know where to send them and how to get an editor to sit up and take notice.
Julia Loren will be your personal mentor and instructor during the course. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor and has published articles in Discipleship Journal, Charisma Magazine and a host of Christian magazines and newspapers. She is also the author of five published books with several on the way. (For more details see her website at www.julialoren.net).
After you register, you’ll receive an introduction, a lesson schedule to help you stay on pace, and the course notebook containing all of the lessons.
As soon as you’ve finished the first assignment, E-mail your work to Julia Loren. Within one week, she will return your work to you with comments and suggestions, and often even a bit of the kind of editing you might expect from an editor. But don’t wait for that evaluation before beginning the next lesson, so you can keep up with your one-lesson-every- week pace.
Each lesson is designed to build upon what you’ve learned in previous lessons. And move you closer to realizing your dream of becoming a writer. Who knows? You may be one who sells your first article by the time you’ve finished the course.
FEE: $400
Includes individual feedback on weekly lessons, Christian Writer’s Market Guide, email correspondence & handouts. Contact Julia Loren via email and get started today!
LESSON 1
The High Calling of a Writer
What is a Christian writer? Is it enough to simply share from your heart a deeply personal story, or a vision, or a dream? How do you know you have the call to write? Julia Loren’s message will inspire, motivate and empower you to write as you’ve never written before. She will lead you into reflective writing exercises that you can hold onto to inspire yourself for years to come.
LESSON 2
Reading like a Writer
Where do you go to put your developing skills to work for Christ and His Kingdom? We’ll provide a basic understanding of markets: newspapers, take-home papers, magazines, the Internet, books. Exercises in analyzing the markets will be given in this lesson.
LESSON 3
Thinking like a Writer
What sources do you have for usable, publishable ideas? How do you frame them, focus them, and then shape your big ideas to impact your reader?
LESSON 4
Sensing like a Writer
Becoming an observer of the world and your community will enable you to write using all of your senses. We’ll show how to bring sight, sound, color, smell and touch into your writing to propel the reader into your article.
LESSON 5
Elements of a Great Article & Generating Article Ideas
You’ll be introduced to the five elements of a good article, various kinds of articles, how to grab and hold the reader, developing a satisfactory close. This lesson gets you started as a selling writer.
LESSON 6
Writing captivating titles & opening paragraphs
This lesson will give you the tools to create a short news article or feature that you may be able to publish in your local Christian newspaper.
LESSON 7
Pacing the flow and structuring the article
We’ll continue working with your news article and draw out the story and the message.
LESSON 8
Focusing on the Take-Away & the close
We’ll close your news article with a bang that will leave readers inspired to take action on what you just wrote.
LESSON 9
Writing the Personal Experience Article
These range from learning a lesson or discovering God’s provision to experiencing danger. Learn to turn your experiences into articles that also change others’ lives. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 10 (You will choose one focus for this week – inspirational or devotional)
Writing the Inspirational Article
Learn to recognize an inspirational idea or experience, how to develop it for maximum reader appeal, what magazines like Guideposts and others expect in an inspirational article. You will come away from this lesson with a short, inspirational article.
or
Writing the Devotional Article
Discover three key elements of a good devotional meditation, the use of imagery in devotional writing, how to construct and shape a longer devotional article — and where to market it. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 11 (You will choose one focus for this week – personality or seasonal)
Writing the Personality Article
Personality articles feature people others want to know about. Examine life situations that generate articles, learn to identify and develop a story angle, what to avoid, and where to market personality articles. We will also talk about interviewing techniques and how to interview to get the story angle you want. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
or
Writing the Seasonal Article
What events suggest a seasonal article? How do you develop a new twist on an old idea? How important is timing? Discover how to make multiple sales with the same seasonal theme. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 12
Writing the Feature Article
Feature articles provide a full-orbed and balanced perspective on a specific topic, person, organization, or event. Learn what makes an outstanding feature article and how to build an effective beginning, middle, and end. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 13
Breaking into Print & Writing the Query
To break into print you must write a compelling proposal, a letter that in the magazine world is quaintly called “the query.” The query is a piece of writing unto itself, an informed and impassioned mini-essay. Not a seven-course meal, but a tiny, irresistible hors d’oeuvre packed with flavor and the promise of bounty yet to come. It’s the rare editor who will take the time to read a fully-written article submitted by a new writer—but a good query will hold their attention and might get your work published.
LESSON 14
Final article drafts reviewed from Lessons 10-12
Selling your article in multiple markets
“Write what you know,” we’re told. But if your goal is to write magazine articles, “what you know” and “what they’ll publish” isn’t always the same thing. We’ll examine what makes good material for magazine articles and launch you into drafting marketable ideas. By the end of the course you will have 2-5 articles drafted and ready for publication. Not only that, but you will know where to send them and how to get an editor to sit up and take notice.
Julia Loren will be your personal mentor and instructor during the course. She is a former newspaper reporter and editor and has published articles in Discipleship Journal, Charisma Magazine and a host of Christian magazines and newspapers. She is also the author of five published books with several on the way. (For more details see her website at www.julialoren.net).
After you register, you’ll receive an introduction, a lesson schedule to help you stay on pace, and the course notebook containing all of the lessons.
As soon as you’ve finished the first assignment, E-mail your work to Julia Loren. Within one week, she will return your work to you with comments and suggestions, and often even a bit of the kind of editing you might expect from an editor. But don’t wait for that evaluation before beginning the next lesson, so you can keep up with your one-lesson-every- week pace.
Each lesson is designed to build upon what you’ve learned in previous lessons. And move you closer to realizing your dream of becoming a writer. Who knows? You may be one who sells your first article by the time you’ve finished the course.
FEE: $400
Includes individual feedback on weekly lessons, Christian Writer’s Market Guide, email correspondence & handouts. Contact Julia Loren via email and get started today!
LESSON 1
The High Calling of a Writer
What is a Christian writer? Is it enough to simply share from your heart a deeply personal story, or a vision, or a dream? How do you know you have the call to write? Julia Loren’s message will inspire, motivate and empower you to write as you’ve never written before. She will lead you into reflective writing exercises that you can hold onto to inspire yourself for years to come.
LESSON 2
Reading like a Writer
Where do you go to put your developing skills to work for Christ and His Kingdom? We’ll provide a basic understanding of markets: newspapers, take-home papers, magazines, the Internet, books. Exercises in analyzing the markets will be given in this lesson.
LESSON 3
Thinking like a Writer
What sources do you have for usable, publishable ideas? How do you frame them, focus them, and then shape your big ideas to impact your reader?
LESSON 4
Sensing like a Writer
Becoming an observer of the world and your community will enable you to write using all of your senses. We’ll show how to bring sight, sound, color, smell and touch into your writing to propel the reader into your article.
LESSON 5
Elements of a Great Article & Generating Article Ideas
You’ll be introduced to the five elements of a good article, various kinds of articles, how to grab and hold the reader, developing a satisfactory close. This lesson gets you started as a selling writer.
LESSON 6
Writing captivating titles & opening paragraphs
This lesson will give you the tools to create a short news article or feature that you may be able to publish in your local Christian newspaper.
LESSON 7
Pacing the flow and structuring the article
We’ll continue working with your news article and draw out the story and the message.
LESSON 8
Focusing on the Take-Away & the close
We’ll close your news article with a bang that will leave readers inspired to take action on what you just wrote.
LESSON 9
Writing the Personal Experience Article
These range from learning a lesson or discovering God’s provision to experiencing danger. Learn to turn your experiences into articles that also change others’ lives. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 10 (You will choose one focus for this week – inspirational or devotional)
Writing the Inspirational Article
Learn to recognize an inspirational idea or experience, how to develop it for maximum reader appeal, what magazines like Guideposts and others expect in an inspirational article. You will come away from this lesson with a short, inspirational article.
or
Writing the Devotional Article
Discover three key elements of a good devotional meditation, the use of imagery in devotional writing, how to construct and shape a longer devotional article — and where to market it. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 11 (You will choose one focus for this week – personality or seasonal)
Writing the Personality Article
Personality articles feature people others want to know about. Examine life situations that generate articles, learn to identify and develop a story angle, what to avoid, and where to market personality articles. We will also talk about interviewing techniques and how to interview to get the story angle you want. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
or
Writing the Seasonal Article
What events suggest a seasonal article? How do you develop a new twist on an old idea? How important is timing? Discover how to make multiple sales with the same seasonal theme. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 12
Writing the Feature Article
Feature articles provide a full-orbed and balanced perspective on a specific topic, person, organization, or event. Learn what makes an outstanding feature article and how to build an effective beginning, middle, and end. You will draft a short article for this lesson.
LESSON 13
Breaking into Print & Writing the Query
To break into print you must write a compelling proposal, a letter that in the magazine world is quaintly called “the query.” The query is a piece of writing unto itself, an informed and impassioned mini-essay. Not a seven-course meal, but a tiny, irresistible hors d’oeuvre packed with flavor and the promise of bounty yet to come. It’s the rare editor who will take the time to read a fully-written article submitted by a new writer—but a good query will hold their attention and might get your work published.
LESSON 14
Final article drafts reviewed from Lessons 10-12
Selling your article in multiple markets