Bev has trained both beginning and advanced writers from over twenty-five countries. This lively, interactive seminar includes a syllabus for each student. Classes may be one-day; an evening followed by a full-day; or a series of weekly sessions. For mission schools, a full one- or two-week workshop includes 5 hours of teaching per day, plus critique groups and writing assignments.
If you have a group of at least ten interested writers, Bev is willing to work with you. You will need to arrange for:
- A meeting place
- All promotion and recruitment
- Registration and any student fees
- Sound system, if a large group
- Bev’s expenses (transportation and housing if at a distance from Dallas/Denton, TX area. Housing need not be an expensive hotel.)
- Honorarium – $50 per student per day
- Interpreter, if needed
If you have a highly motivated group of less than ten, she’s willing to come,
but needs $500 per day above expenses.
Topics can include:
*Boldfaced titles are covered in every seminar.
- Sharpen Your Focus – Questions You Must Answer Before You Begin Writing
- Targeting Your Audience
- Identifying and Clarifying Your Message
- Choosing Your Viewpoint
- Selecting the Right Structure: Thematic, Narrative or Fiction
- Tools of the Thematic Writer – Making Your Material Interesting and Memorable
- Writing True Stories Using Fiction Techniques
- Writing For Magazines – Types of Articles and Selecting Your Markets
- Taking Your Reader into Your Scenes
- Editing Your Own Work
- How to Know Whether You Have a Book – and Whether You Should be the Writer
- How to Keep ‘Em Turning the Pages
- The Writer’s Support Network – Other Writers, Prayer Partners, Writers’ Publications
- Analyzing the Publishing Field
- Marketing Your Writing – Selling Your Work to an Editor
- Queries, Cover Letters, Book Proposals
- Reselling Articles
- Sell Before You Write – Effective Use of Query Letters and Book Proposals
- Promoting Your Writing – The Media and the Speaking Circuit
- Promotion Tips from Pre-publication to Follow-up
- Writing Other Peoples’ Stories – Ghost and With-Writing
- Interviewing Techniques and Taboos
- Writing for the Child-Reader
- Writing for the Cross-Over Market
To schedule a Writers’ Seminar for your church or school, email: caruso@across2u.com