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SUMMARY:REPLAY | Organize Your Writing Life: Get UNstuck in 2026
DESCRIPTION:Tired of feeling guilty about unfinished work? Stop drowning in drafts. You need a mission and a map to cross the finish line.\n\n\n\nFor All Writers | TO BE SENT ON MONDAY 1/12/26 \n\n\n\nNew year\, new plan—what kind of writer do you want to be? What book are you dying to start (or finish!) What’s the mission that will get you going to bring your words into the world? And is FINAL-final-draft-6B.doc the most recent manuscript? (it’s been a few weeks since you sat down!) \n\n\n\nHere’s the truth: if you start with “organizing” you’ll never get finished. What you need is a practical\, flexible approach that meets your actual life and fits your limited calendar. To cut through the overwhelm and focus on the story you want to tell and the readers you need to reach. And of course\, a specific list of the steps to take to get from draft to done. \n\n\n\nIn this 90-minute webinar with Allison K Williams\, get clear on your goals and learn how tomerge linear planning with creative flexibility to organize your files and your projects. You’ll set (doable!) goals that matter and learn patterns to stay focused on your project despite the demands of work\, family and home. You’ll get tips and tricks to stay motivated and confident when you’re not getting much feedback\, and easy\, free ways to connect with other writers. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will learn:\n\n\n\n\nThe Brain Dump Method: How to get every project\, idea\, and obligation out of your head and onto paper—then decide what actually matters (and what you can let go)\n\n\n\nThe Lifeboat: A powerful technique to identify which project deserves your focus right now\, even when you’re torn between multiple manuscripts\n\n\n\nA 5-minute technique to organize ALL your digital files: find what you need in 30 seconds\, not 30 minutes!\n\n\n\nProject planning for creative minds: How to map your manuscript structure using sticky notes\, index cards\, or digital tools—and why treating each scene as its own accomplishment changes everything\n\n\n\nUnderstanding your creative energy\, bravery\, and commitment—and how to stop spending them in the wrong places\n\n\n\nHow to balance research and writing: The revolutionary way to store and use your research without getting sucked into rabbit holes \n\n\n\nCreating habits that stick: The “if-then” formula that gets you writing\, and why your tiny\, frightened lizard brain needs to hear “I’ll come back\, I promise”\n\n\n\nYour platform is your writing: How to build author presence without taking focus off your writing\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for… \n\n\n\n\nFiction\, nonfiction and memoir writers with a manuscript at any stage—started\, murky middle\, revisions\, or just a compelling idea demanding your attention\n\n\n\nThose building a writing side hustle—teaching\, editing\, coaching—and need strategies to balance the paid work with your own creative projects\n\n\n\nCreatives juggling multiple unfinished projects who need clarity on which one to prioritize\n\n\n\nWriters with child/family/caregiver obligations who just can’t see where the time will come from \n\n\n\nWriters with disabilities or neurodivergence that hinder writing time\, focus or stamina\n\n\n\nWriters who want to form and define their writing life through conscious practice\n\n\n\nCreative Writing students and MFA graduates having a hard time writing without external deadlines\n\n\n\nWriters who alternate between prolific writing binges and “hitting a wall” or getting creatively blocked\n\n\n\n\nNot for people who have their lives\, their time\, and their schedule 100% together and everything is fine! (Please\, tell us how!) \n\n\n\nYou’ll receive:\n\n\n\n\nWorksheets to plan your time\, rank your priorities\, and determine which project will be your focus this year\n\n\n\nPDF of the slides from the workshop\n\n\n\nAccess to daily FREE co-writing sessions\, all year long\n\n\n\nA renewed sense of purpose in your writing.\n\n\n\n\nThis isn’t about becoming someone who has it all together. It’s about becoming someone who makes progress despite not having it all together. Because that’s the only way any of us actually finish books. \n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison K Williams is the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book. She has edited and coached writers to publishing deals with Big Five\, independent & literary presses. She’s guided essayists and humorists to publications including the New Yorker\, Time\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, McSweeney’s\, Refinery29\, Hippocampus\, the Belladonna and TED Talks. Her own writing on travel\, craft\, culture and comedy has appeared in/on National Public Radio\, CBC-Canada\, the New York Times\, the Christian Science Monitor\, Writers Digest\, Creative Nonfiction\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Kenyon Review Online\, Travelers’ Tales and Flash Nonfiction Funny. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Self vs. Self: Writing Your Best Essays from Contradictions
DESCRIPTION:The confusions and contradictions you notice in yourself and the world are your richest source of material.\n\n\n\nFor essayists and creative nonfiction writers | Included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nAs humans\, we seek certainty. As writers\, diving into the messiness of our own opinions creates our most powerful work. Transcendent\, complex works of nonfiction often depend on confusions and contradictions. A writer can intentionally build tension in an essay by identifying and illuminating paradox\, contradiction\, and incongruity in oneself\, one’s subject\, one’s culture\, and the world. Leaning into and exploring contradiction is often the difference between a simple\, underdeveloped draft and a powerful\, published essay\, article\, or memoir.  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll examine works of nonfiction\, including Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz (a memoir of grief and joy intertwined)\, to learn how authors establish and contend with opposite principles\, conflicting perspectives\, and subjects that seemingly clash. You’ll also generate your own list of contradictions you can return to time and again for inspiration. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the works of master nonfiction essayists and memoirists to see how to utilize contradictions thematically and stylistically\n\n\n\nDISCOVER why paradox and confusion make the richest material\n\n\n\nPRACTICE making your own lists of contradictions for future inspiration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou should take this webinar if… \n\n\n\n\nYou are an intermediate or advanced writer who wants to dig beneath the obvious stories you’ve been telling\n\n\n\nYou need help generating material\n\n\n\nYou want to add depth\, tension\, and nuance to your essays and nonfiction\n\n\n\nYou are eager to clarify (rather than avoid) the contradictions that shape your voice\n\n\n\nYou are writing on grief\, loss\, or other strong subjects\, and it’s difficult to find the tension or dramatic arc beyond one set of powerful feelings\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLindsey DeLoach Jones is a writer living in Greenville\, South Carolina. She writes about the tension between seemingly opposed forces—the spiritual and the practical\, the mysterious and the mundane\, the Mother and the Artist—in her Substack\, Between Two Things. \n\n\n\nLindsey holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and has served as the Writer-in-Residence at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. She has taught literature and writing at Clemson University and currently teaches writing online and in person at Writeshare\, the writers’ network she co-founded in Upstate SC. She previously served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry. Among other places\, Lindsey’s essays have appeared in HuffPost\, HuffPost Parenting\, Split Lip\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Motherwell. She is a recipient of the Vandermey Nonfiction Prize\, and an essay nominated by Pigeon Pages was a finalist for Best of the Net. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Nailed It: Conceptualizing your Nonfiction Book 
DESCRIPTION:Clarify your book’s purpose\, identify its core message\, and develop an outline or structure for your book that aligns with your purpose.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturdays\, January 17th & 24th\, 2-5 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, and Memoir writers \n\n\n\nFor over two decades\, Melissa Petro has helped hundreds of writers nail down the concept for their nonfiction books. A strong concept is the critical first step in writing a book\, yet so many writers either settle on a vague or underdeveloped idea—one that lacks a clear narrative thread or emotional/logical core—or skip this step altogether.  \n\n\n\nThis 2-day seminar focuses on you getting this step right. The intensive will combine lectures\, discussions\, readings\, and writing exercises. Together\, we’ll clarify your book’s purpose\, identify its core message\, and develop an outline or structure for your book that aligns with your purpose\, setting you up for the next stages of writing. \n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to submit a description of their project to the instructor for feedback. \n\n\n\nAdded bonus: senior agent Laura Mazer will join the second class\, giving participants a chance to workshop their concept live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, you’ll:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the pros and cons of various publishing paths\, including Big Five\, indie\, hybrid\, and self-publishing.  \n\n\n\nIDENTIFY your potential primary and secondary audiences and discuss other aspects of market\, including premise and promise\, style\, voice\, and thesis\n\n\n\nDISCOVER competitive titles and other ways to demonstrate how a new book fits within the existing market\, helping agents\, editors\, and publishers understand its potential audience and sales viability. \n\n\n\nCREATE a chapter outline\, ensuring your chapters are in an order with a strong narrative arc and/or concepts that flow from one to the other or tell some kind of story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for \n\n\n\n\nnonfiction writers interested in writing a book\n\n\n\nwriters who are stalled at any stage in the writing process\n\n\n\nanyone curious about the book-writing process\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss part of the class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after each session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Petro is a freelance writer and the author of Shame on You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification\, published by Putnam Books\, a division of Penguin Random House. As a workshop facilitator\, she’s helped hundreds of people push through fear\, write\, share\, and even publish their most vulnerable stories in national publications such as The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, Salon\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere\, and has helped still more individuals re-envision their lives by making meaning of their past and transcending traumatic experiences. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro is an exceptional writing teacher. She masterfully balances support and challenge\, pushing her students to refine their work while offering insightful and encouraging feedback. Her unique blend of honesty\, kindness\, and fresh perspective makes her an invaluable guide for any aspiring writer.” – Jennifer S.  \n\n\n\n“I’m lucky to have found such a terrific mentor in Melissa. Her honest\, critical feedback has expanded my writing skills. She also shares her experience as a lifetime writer\, synthesizes how the industry operates\, and offers best practices for becoming a published author. I highly recommend any course Melissa offers.” – Shabana S.  \n\n\n\n“I always knew I wanted to be a writer but was too scared to commit to the work- working with Melissa not only held me accountable to finishing my memoir\, but made me a better writer. Every time we connected I knew I would be met with honest critique that pushed me past my comfort zone which is exactly what I needed.” – Shannon O.  \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro gave me the expertise and encouragement needed to finally publish my writing. She has helped me to shape ideas\, pitches\, and drafts into essays for HuffPost\, Elle\, and Business Insider. Her mentorship has been incredibly valuable to me as a writer and a woman who is turning her most shameful secrets into compelling articles. She’s just the best there is.” – Katie N.  \n\n\n\n“Melissa Petro is an engaged\, knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher. She provided practical guidance\, while also giving us thoughtful personal feedback to each student. Highly recommend her class!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a full refund. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? 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