RESEARCH METHODS FOR WRITERS Fee: $129 Learn the most efficient and effective methods of conducting research for any writing project—from fiction to dissertation. Covers personal interviews, public reports, polls, and surveys; as well as historical, undercover, and guerilla research. ROMANCE WRITING Fee: $129 Romance is the number one bestselling genre in mass-market fiction, with readers clamoring for more. Learn the skills you need to write a romance novel that will make readers swoon—whether you’re a new or experienced writer. TECHNICAL WRITING Fee: $129 Explore the well-paying field of technical writing. Learn to translate complex information into easily understood language and study technical writing conventions, interviewing skills, desktop publishing, graphics, templates, and more. Also, gain tips on how to enter this growing industry. THE KEYS TO EFFECTIVE EDITING Fee: $129 Ask any published writer, and you’ll hear that a good editor isn’t just helpful, but essential. Designed for all levels of writers and editors, explore the fundamentals of editing and recent professional advances that may be applied to both fiction and nonfiction writing. WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR NON-FICTIONBOOK Fee: $129 Did you know that nonfiction book titles are 10 times more likely to get published than fiction titles? Become a professional author or advance your career by learning to write, edit, and publish nonfiction books of all types. WRITE FICTION LIKE A PRO Fee: $129 Learn to develop the same story structuring skills the pros use. Understand how your passion, theme, premise, and characters help create the structure of your story. Discover how viewpoint, dialogue, pacing, and other techniques can build scenes and move a story from beginning to end. Each assignment helps you develop your own original novel or story. As you apply each technique, your story will take shape, from beginning to end. Before you know it, you will be prepared to write fiction like a pro. WRITERIFIC: CREATIVITY TRAINING FOR WRITERS Fee: $129 Overcome the fear of the blank page and transform your visions into the written word. Gain tips and tricks from the toolbox of a published writer. Whether you’re hoping to write a novel, nonfiction book, memoir, short story or article, this course will liberate your imagination. WRITING ESSENTIALS Fee: $129 Master the essentials of writing in order to excel at business communications, express yourself clearly online, and take your creative literary talents to a new level. Hands-on activities help you put your powerful new skills to use right away.
INTRODUCTION TO PHP AND MYSQL Fee: $129 Learn how to create an interactive website, allowing visitors to post and retrieve information provided by you or your site’s visitors. Learn how to create dynamic web pages using the PHP programming language and the MySQL database server. Writing BECOMING A GRANT WRITING CONSULTANT Fee: $129 Good grant writing consultants are always in demand. Use your creative writing skills and basic knowledge of grant writing to build a lucrative consulting business that can make a difference in the quality of thousands of lives. BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED Fee: $129 Taught by a published author, this course demonstrates how to get your books and articles published. Discover powerful shortcuts to get published, learn how to properly format manuscripts, write irresistible query letters, and identify publishers who want your work. BEGINNING WRITER’S WORKSHOP Fee: $129 Do you dream of writing creatively? Get a taste of the writing life, improve your skills, and discover new ways to stretch your creative muscles. This isn’t school as you know it. It’s an in-depth writing experience filled with challenging hands-on exercises, expert advice, and plenty of direct support and encouragement. EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING Fee: $129 Whether you are a clerical worker, engineer, or executive, even a small improvement in your writing skills can also improve your career prospects. Identify and eliminate problem areas in your writing. Learn to develop powerful written documents, including e-mail, that imme- diately draw readers in and motivate them to take action. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET WRITING MARKETS Fee: $129 While some traditional markets for writers have vanished, others have appeared on the horizon—many on the Internet. Explore how to sell e-zine articles; write for webzines and blogs; sell manuscripts to an e-publisher; and self-publish your own e-book or a traditional book using print-on-demand publishing. INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING Fee: $129 Learn how to write a great script that can sell. Examine what makes a screen story work, and how to structure that story into a script, create characters, and make your dialogue sing. Explore the rapidly expanding market for scripts and see how you can grab your place in it. PUBLISH AND SELL YOUR E-BOOKS Fee: $129 Did you know that e-books now outsell print books, and self-pub- lished authors regularly make The New York Times bestseller lists? Don’t wait for a traditional publisher to discover your talent. Learn how to use free tools to publish and sell e-books through the world’s largest online bookstores.
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