I offer two free webinars. You can book me to talk to your department, your scholarly association, your writing group, or your garden party (well, as long as there are academics working on manuscripts attending your garden party). The webinars will be conducted as Zoom meetings. The length of each webinar is about an hour, including Q&A.

Webinar 1: Getting unstuck

I suspect that every manuscript worth its salt hits a point where the author is assailed by self-doubt or at the very least confusion about how best to get to the finish line. Yet most of us tend to fear that when we are stuck, it must be a signal that there is something fundamentally wrong with the manuscript — surely our colleagues writing good books have a smoother experience?

This webinar focuses on practical techniques for shaking off the mid-manuscript blues and finding one’s writing flow again.

Webinar 2: Developmental editing — doing developmental editing of your own work or getting someone to do it for you

This webinar is all about developmental editing (or structural editing, as some people call it). You can use it as a guide to a DIY developmental edit, or to gain a better understanding of whether you might benefit from paying somebody to conduct a developmental edit of your manuscript.

image: “Library and Writing Room, Benson Polytechnic, Portland, Oregon.” June 23, 1918. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86716896