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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Choose Your Best Publishing Path: Balancing Dollars and Sense
DESCRIPTION:How do books land on shelves? And what publishing path fits your time\, budget\, and expectations? \n\n\n\nFor full-length fiction\, nonfiction and memoir\, including collectionsIncluded in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nWith over four million new titles for sale last year\, publishing is a multibillion-dollar business. Costs\, time\, and maintaining control over the process are critical elements in an author’s decision\, and every writer has their own set of must-haves and non-negotiables. From acquisition to sales to your ideal readers\, it’s vital to educate yourself even before you finish the book. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of traditional\, hybrid\, and self-publishing. We’ll tackle the financial costs and resources required for each and learn from established authors what they enjoy most (and least) about their chosen path. You’ll leave with information to determine which option is the best fit not only for your work but also to meet your own goals and expectations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND traditional\, hybrid\, and self-publishing—and what each actually costs in time\, money\, and creative control\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY which publishing path best aligns with your goals\, your book\, and your non-negotiables\n\n\n\nHEAR firsthand from established authors about what they wish they had known before choosing their publishing route\n\n\n\nGAIN the vocabulary and framework to ask the right questions—of agents\, publishers\, hybrid presses\, and yourself\n\n\n\nBUILD a realistic roadmap for one of the most important decisions of your writing life\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is best for new-to-publishing writers \n\n\n\n\nwho are indecisive of their publishing path\n\n\n\nwho are ready to publish but require more info\n\n\n\ninterested in the book publishing business\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA buoyant\, high-energy teacher who motivates writers to “stick with it\,” Kristin Owens\, PhD\, is an award-winning educator and writer living in oxygen-deprived Colorado. She’s a contributor to Writer’s Digest\, 5280\, and Wine Enthusiast. Her debut novel\, Elizabeth Sails\, was shortlisted for the 2025 Gilda Prize and Killer Nashville’s Award for Best Cozy. With her background in university instruction\, she takes complex subjects and breaks them down into informative and entertaining bite-sized pieces. She can usually be found (playing and working) onboard a cruise ship. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) 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\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \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
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/choose-your-best-path/
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Sharpen Your Prose: How to Be Your Own Editor
DESCRIPTION:Writers don’t always have the luxury of a great editor. But we can teach ourselves to examine our own prose through an editor’s lens.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturday & Sunday\, September 19-20\, 2026 | 2-3:30pm EDTFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Writers \n\n\n\nFor successful authors\, “all writing is rewriting.” Most of the best work we’ll ever do happens not in first drafts but through the painstaking process of revision. But what exactly is revision? How do we approach what can feel like an intimidating and endless process? How can we truly make our drafts better (and not just different)? And where do we turn for feedback when we’re writing on our own? \n\n\n\nRather than focusing on big-picture or developmental editing\, this class will focus on line-level techniques that reliably improve any piece of writing. We’ll discuss what makes individual sentences more impactful\, how to trim bloated paragraphs\, and the keys to maintaining a sense of immediacy that holds readers’ attention. Together\, we’ll study examples of both first-draft writing and polished\, published pieces\, naming the differences and working out how to move from point A to point B. We’ll learn how to create our own feedback\, moving from “author” to “editor” and back again. \n\n\n\nBy studying the work of others\, we’ll begin seeing our own writing more objectively. After our first class\, each participant will work on revising their own sentences\, practicing new techniques. By the end of our second class\, students will have acquired a set of revision practices that can be applied to any work-in-progress.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this insightful weekend course\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN techniques to view your writing more objectively\n\n\n\nREAD examples of sharp prose and consider how they were revised\n\n\n\nPRACTICE revising your own work\n\n\n\nDISCOVER a set of revision practices you can apply to any work-in-progress\n\n\n\n\nSchedule…\n\n\n\nSaturday—We’ll start with the core skill of condensing prose: mediating language\, shaping a true scene\, and revising toward stronger verbs. You’ll read past student work and discuss how to tighten it\, then turn to examples of sharp professional prose to see these techniques in action. \n\n\n\nAs a group\, we’ll build a working list of line-level revision techniques you can apply to your own writing. \n\n\n\nHomework: Revise an excerpt of your own work using the techniques from class. \n\n\n\nSunday—We’ll share revisions with the group and discuss what’s working and what could go further. You’ll gain new insight into your own editing by seeing others in action.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\ncan crank out a first draft but don’t know how to revise\n\n\n\nare working on their own without consistent feedback\n\n\n\nworry their sentences or page count may be bloated\n\n\n\nwant to learn to think like an editor\n\n\n\nwant to write sharper\, tighter prose to capture the attention of readers\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the final session. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn encouraging\, warm\, and deeply knowledgeable instructor\, Lindsey Deloach Jones holds a BA and MA in English and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She has taught creative writing at Clemson University and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities and served as Editor of Emrys Journal and Edible Upcountry. \n\n\n\nLindsey’s essays have been published in HuffPost\, HuffPost Parenting\, Split Lip\, Under the Gum Tree\, Motherwell\, Paste\, South Carolina Review\, and Salvation South\, among others. She is a recipient of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize\, and an essay nominated by Pigeon Pages was recently a finalist for Best of the Net.  \n\n\n\nLindsey currently teaches writing online and in-person via WRITESHARE\, the writers’ network she co-founded in Upstate SC\, and for organizations such as Craft Talks. She is represented by Writers House. \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Lindsey is knowledgeable\, well-prepared\, and interacts well through the chat comments and questions\, so the presentation is more of a conversation. So important!” Anne P. \n\n\n\n“Lindsey is a very ‘user-friendly’ presenter. She takes such complex subjects and makes them accessible.” Laura R. \n\n\n\n“I loved her creative topic\, her examples\, and her presentation. She did a great job of involving the attendees even though it was a virtual session. (Hard to do!) ” Sherrie D. V. \n\n\n\n“Lindsey is so knowledgeable and articulate. I wish I could take her classes in person!” Melissa R. \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 refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\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\nLocation
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