I’m passionate about writing my family history. How about you? If, you feel compelled to tell your ancestors’ stories, but have doubts or fears about how to get started, what to write about, or how to craft a compelling narrative, then join me for The Write Stuff: Build Your Family Writing Skills, a new Genealogy Intensive™offered through HackGenealogy.com.In this six week, interactive course (13 October – 17 November, 2014), you will build your skills as a writer and learn about the tools and techniques to produce a quality family history.
Why Am I Doing This?
As avid genealogists, we collect names, dates, places, and sources, and these are all essential to us learning about who we are. But a total family history is so much more just charts and graphs, boxes and lines, or references. Writing about our ancestors and our heritage gives context, meaning, and purpose to all of the facts we have collected, and I want to help you to learn how to lose the intimidation and let go of your fears about writing so that you can dig deeper into your family stories. As a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh’s Creative Nonfiction Writing program, I learned from many of the best in the business, and I have spent years building my own career as freelance writer. I want to share my experience with you.
Why the “Intensive” Concept?
In the genealogy field, there are countless opportunities for learning about what records are available and how to search them. In addition, there are many study groups out there to help you build upon the methodology and research practices. However, when it comes to writing, there is not the same in-depth type of instruction readily available. Even presentations given at conferences and via webinars are typically only lectures that will “tell” you about some of the key techniques, but don’t always “show” you what to do (I know this because I have given many of these presentations). With six weeks of concentrated focus in this “intensive” format, you will receive “take away” assignments to put into practice what you learn, and get the kind of one-on-one interaction with the instructor that is not always possible in a conference or webinar setting.
Specifically, in “The Write Stuff” experience, you will:
- Learn writing skills and techniques to produce a quality family history
- Build on the skills each week.
- Focus on getting a working draft.
- Receive constructive and helpful feedback.
- Learn to overcome fears and anxiety about writing.
- Have fun!
Through on-line instructional sessions, weekly assignments, and collaboration with other participants, attendees will have access to an instructor with more than 23 years of writing experience, who will teach key nonfiction writing techniques used to produce a “can’t put down” family history that will keep the pages turning for generations.
The intimidation-free learning environment will offer you the chance to find your voice, and write without worry or fear that you are doing something wrong. You will learn the essential skills you need to be accurate and thorough in your writing while maximizing your creativity!
The cost to attend a The Write Stuff GenealogyIntensive™ over a six week period is $129 per person. A special discounted price of $99 will be available during the early registration period.
Click herefor more details and to register. But don’t delay…there are only a limited number of seats available, and you will want to be sure to get the early bird discount.
I hope you will join me so I can help you to stop worrying and start writing!
[Disclaimer: I have been hired as a freelance instructor this intensive by HackGenealogy, and I will be receive payment for leading this intensive.]
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