WRITING
Beyond Dear Diary: Writing for Personal Growth & Transformation (EWRT 701)
Feeling stuck, out-of-focus or confused in your life direction? Think there is something more for you but not sure what it is or how to find it? In this intensive writing course, you will go beyond diary-style writing to explore a variety of methods including Free Form, Inner Dialogues, Mind Maps and “Pen-Visioning.” Although often simple in methodology, it is a rich and powerful resource for contemplation, discovery and change. Be prepared for an experience that will transform, challenge and delight you!
Susan Borkin, M.A. is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and writer. She is the founder of Write Now!, a professional practice specializing in the use of writing for personal and professional growth. Susan specializes in helping people overcome creative blocks and achieve deep personal transformation through the use of writing. A personal growth writing teacher for more than twenty-five years, she is the author of When Your Heart Speaks, Take Good Notes: The Healing Power of Writing and Writing From the Inside Out: Using a Journal for Personal Growth & Transformation.
Susan Borkin
Saturday, November 14, 9:00am-4:00pm
Location: De Anza College
Room: E-34
$89 (Additional $10 materials fee payable to instructor during class)
Publish Your Book in 30 Days or Less (EWRT 702)
The problem isn’t publishing your own book anymore, whether it’s bookstore bound, an e-book, a cookbook, or a memoir. Anybody with a computer can do it. It’s trying to figure out how and with whom to get going! Do you head to Lulu, Scribd!, Blurb, CreateSpace, Smashwords… Do you find an offset press, a short-run digital press, a P.O.D. one-copy house, or just do it yourself? And do they really pay you 85% per copy sold? No cost at all?
So let a publishing vet sort it out for you! He will demythologize, explain, prioritize, and take you through two step-by-step examples (using the same templates the companies provide you), then give you a great take-home guide to get you on your own track, so you have your book done and selling by Christmas!
Gordon Burgett
Wednesday, October 7, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Foothill College
Room: 3201
$65
How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing (EWRT 703)
Professionals sell first, then write, while beginners write, then try to sell. This seminar focuses on
articles and non-fiction books, showing how you can do what the professionals do from the first day with predictably lucrative results.
Topics include:
- How you get on the professional track immediately
- How one topic can earn you $3,000+
- When to query and when to send copy unsolicited
- The difference between selling to magazines and newspapers
- How pros double their income by selling reprints and rewrites
- How to take every tax deduction
The workbook (included) contains sample query and cover letters, copyright information, a manuscript format sheet, how to study a printed magazine article, and a sample mailing record.
Gordon Burgett
Thursday, October 8, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Location: De Anza College
Room: 3201
$65
How to Write a Children’s Picture Book and Get it Published ( EWRT 704)
Publishers are actively looking for new authors and artists for children’s picture books. This course will show you what you need to know to write a successful picture book manuscript and submit it for publication.
Topics covered:
- How a picture book is structured
- Which subjects work and which don’t
- What a dummy is and why you need to make one
- How to prepare your manuscript for submission to a publisher
- When to use a query letter
- Whether to send multiple submissions
- What writers need to know about submitting illustrations
- How to read a rejection slip
- What happens when a publisher wants to buy your manuscript
- Picture books published by former students
Bring a sack lunch.
JoAnne Stewart Wetzel
Saturday, September 26, 10:00am-4:30pm
Location: De Anza College
Room: L-72
$89