Archive for the ‘Workshops, Seminars & Online Courses’ Category

Discover the Joy of Creative Writing workshop – Oct 23, Whitby

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Discover the Joy of Creative Writing: Creative writing workshop to help you write fiction or memoirs Do you want to kick-start your inner writer? Has your writing hit a wall? When you sit down in front of the blank page, do you draw a blank? Do you want to feel more inspired? ...

Online freelance writing and business writing courses

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Go back to school online this fall with business of freelance writing and business writing courses - www.paullima.com/ecourses. Courses include: Develop Your Business Vision Find Corporate Writing Assignents Price Corporate Writing Write Newspaper/Magazine Article Queries Write Newspaper/Magazine Article Leads Copywriting: Write Effective Ad Copy Copywriting: Sales Letters & E-mail Business Writing: E-mail to Reports Business Writing: E-mail Writing for the ...

Wordstock 2010, @ Ryerson Oct. 2, is all about writing; features Ian Brown as keynote

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

The 15th edition of Wordstock will be held on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Ryerson School of Journalism, at the corner of Gould and Church Sts. in Toronto. After a few years of dabbling successfully in the new journalism tools and styles, this is a retro version of Wordstock. It ...

Video Workshops for Professional Writers Available On Demand; discounts for PWAC, CFU and EAC Members

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Professional development sessions by Marion Soubliere and Paul Lima available on demand at 'Communicating for Cash', the two-day workshop series presented by PWAC Atlantic and CFU. PWAC Ottawa member Marion Soubliere wrote the book on cracking the $20 billion federal government market - Getting Work with the Federal Government: A ...

“Communicating for Cash” workshops to be live streamed

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

PWAC (Atlantic) and the CFU Present: Online Workshops That Teach You How to Get Work With the Federal Government and Social Media's Place in Your Marketing Efforts Can't make it to beautiful Sackville, New Brunswick, for Communicating for Cash, a weekend of professional development workshops and face-to-face social networking at Mt. Allison ...

Communicating for Cash workshop for freelance writers – Sackville, NB – July 9 – 11

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

I will be conducting 2 seminars at the Communicating for Cash 2-day workshop for freelance writers in Sackville, NB - July 9 - 11. Seminar 1: Search Engine Optimization Seminar 2: Marketing your Freelance Writing Services In total, there will be six super workshops relating to writing for money and how ...

How to Start a Speech or Presentation

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I've written a number of speeches and think its fair to say that I spend the most tim on my openings. Yes, I work diligently on the middle and the closing and, of course, on rehearsing, but the speech doesn't start to come together until I have the right opening ...

Seminar: Discover the Joy of Writing Fiction

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Discover the Joy of Writing Fiction Frustrated because all those stories bumping around in your head never seem to get beyond the dream stage? Discover the Joy of Writing Fiction will show you how to get those ideas onto paper! In this hands-on workshop you will discover techniques that will effectively ...

How to Find and Price Corporate Assignments seminar: May 1, Mississauga, Ont.

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

How to Find and Price Corporate Assignments Are you grabbing the first writing job you can find, getting clients you don’t want and frustrated at scraping by on low-balled assignments? In this workshop you will: - Learn techniques that will get you better assignments - Bbe shown simple yet effective business practices that can ...

Discover the Joy of Writing Fiction seminar: Apr. 10, Mississauga, Ont.

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Discover the Joy of Writing Fiction Frustrated because all those stories bumping around in your head never seem to get beyond the dream stage? Discover the Joy of Writing Fiction will show you how to get those ideas onto paper! In this hands-on workshop you will discover techniques that will effectively ...