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Whether you want to write your novel, perfect your screenplay, or craft your memoir, Writer’s Digest University can help you get your writing career underway. Our expert instructors will provide advice, specific instruction, real-world experience, expertise, and the motivation and drive to help you achieve your goals.
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Mastering Character Inner Life
April 2
In this live webinar, using plenty of published and real-world examples, we’ll explore guidelines and principles for letting readers be privy to the inner workings of your characters’ lives without bogging your story down in interiority, and bringing readers more deeply into their direct experience no matter what point of view the story is told in.
Marketing Your Book Without Social Media
April 9
This 90-minute live webinar, taught by Jane Friedman, helps authors first focus on the foundation of any book marketing campaign: your current strengths, assets, and abilities. Most book marketing isn’t about having a big bank roll or social media following, but having sufficient time and energy to capitalize on what you have in hand or what represents a good stretch goal. Few authors truly lack marketing opportunities; most lack sufficient focus and patience to pursue those opportunities, or feel overwhelmed by the task and end up doing nothing at all.
Memoir and Personal Essay Writing Virtual Conference
April 17 - 19
Writer’s Digest University is pleased to present a one-of-a-kind online event for memoir and personal essay writers! Our WDU Memoir and Personal Essay Writing Virtual Conference will provide expert insights from seven successful authors. Spend the weekend learning the finer points of writing memoirs and personal essays, and optionally participate in a query letter critique from a participating literary agent.
Creative Writing 101
April 2 - June 25
Are you one of those people who have thought, “I’d like to write a book someday, but I don’t know where to start”? If yes, then this is the course for you. All you need is to open yourself up and allow your ideas to flow.
Novel Writing Toolkit
April 2 - June 11
Writing a novel can be a long and arduous process, taking weeks, months, or even years of work. How can you maintain your momentum, enthusiasm, and thoughts all moving in the same direction over the course of that entire time? Building a tool kit for each book can get you through those difficult scenes, unforeseen transitions, and soggy middles.
Beginning Television Writing
April 2 -Â April 30
In this four-week course, an established executive producer/showrunner will give you an inside look at the world of dramatic, episodic television. You will explore—and practice—the actual process involved in successfully writing a spec episodic script that will open doors across Hollywood.
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