February 2025 Workshop 1:
Social Media for Authors: The Budget Edition
Instructor: Lisa Rabey
Start Date: Sunday, February 2, 2025
End Date: Friday, February 28, 2025
Duration: 4 Weeks
Type: Groups.io
USD Fee: A2P Member – $10; Non-A2P Member – $25
Class Description
How are you to write your best novel ever if you spend all your time promoting yourself online? Even worse, creating and maintaining your online presence can be overwhelming, time consuming, and sometimes expensive. Social Media for Authors: The Budget Edition solves that problem for you. Lisa Rabey will walk you through tips, tricks, and tools, from creating a content calendar to doing a social media audit so you’ll always be ahead of the game. You’ll be spending more time writing your best novel ever while keeping your community engaged.
Lisa Rabey is Nerd Girl Industries. She has taught classes from information literacy to social media for nearly 20 years. Lisa is dedicated to creating a better online experience for everyone. NGI offers social media management, content creation and strategy, tailored research, website management, instruction, and so much more! Lisa is also a writer, bookseller, and librarian. Her work is published in Backward Trajectory, tiny wren lit, 50-Word Stories, the drabble, and others.
March 2025 Workshop
Enrich Your Writing with Sensory Language
Instructor: Zara West
Start Date: Monday, March 3, 2025
End Date: Monday, March 31, 2025
Duration: 4 Weeks
Type: Groups.io
USD Fee: A2P Member – $10; Non-A2P Member – $20
Class Description
Did you know that there are 7 senses? Or wait is that 8? At any rate, no matter how many there are, a great writer uses ALL of them in EVERY place possible in their writing. In this course, you will learn about our senses, how they work, and when, where and how to use them in your current WIP to set the scene, deepen emotion, and spark up action. Many resources for describing sensory elements will be provided.
We will cover:
· Our Senses – How they work and why writers can’t leave them out
· The Magic of Touch
· Scents, Aromas, and Stinks
· Tasting the World
· Listening for It
· So Much to See
· Finding Our Balance
· Sensory Soup: Examples and cautions
· Going Beyond: Extrasensory Madness
Course Bonus Every participant in this workshop will receive a sensory critique of one chapter or 3000 words of their WIP, with special attention to the use of sensory description.
Zara West loves all things mysterious, adventurous, and heart-stopping, as long as they lead to true love. Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Zara West spends winters in New York where the streets hum with life, summers in the Maritimes where the sea meets the shore, and the rest of the year anywhere inspiration for tales of adventure and love are plentiful. An award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, Zara West has published the award-winning romantic thriller series, The Skin Quartet and Tide Harbor Suspense. She is also the author of the Write for Success series of writing craft books for every writer and teaches numerous online courses.