Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association In this session, APA Style experts will answer frequently asked questions about APA Style, note areas that copyeditors should watch for, dispel some APA Style myths, and share resources the APA Style team has created for learning APA Style.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your editing business like a professional.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis This is a specialized course designed for those who are in the editing industry (or who want to become freelance editors). This class will provide detailed discussions about the field, editing skills, and the business and IT requirements necessary to succeed. Strengthen your skills, and learn how to run your editing business like a professional.

Editors are often challenged to work on multiple projects simultaneously while editing at different levels, some manuscripts requiring a developmental edit, some requiring a heavy copyedit, and others requiring a light copyedit. April Michelle Davis will discuss the differences between the various levels of editing and how to easily transition between them when working on more than one project in a single day.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis The more publishing professionals can do to increase efficiency in the writing, editing, or proofreading process, the more valuable they are to publishers and clients, and the more they can earn. Get the scoop on creating and using macros in Word to make your workflow faster, more efficient, more accurate, and more productive.

Guest: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol Writers desire to have a nearly perfect manuscript when it becomes ready for publication. However, they have some mistakes in common with one another. Learning what these mistakes are and fixing them even before you hire the editor can make the editing process smoother, faster, and cheaper!

Guest: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol Do you need to hire an editor but can't afford the one you really want? Learn ways to save both time and money in the editing process by making some of the corrections to your manuscript. Explore how to turn five words into one word, change two weak sentences into one strong sentence, identify and remove lazy words, write in parallel paths with rhythm, and more!

Guest: NAIWE’s Ghostwriting Expert Claudia Suzanne Do you know about the polish step between the final rewrite and line/copy editing? It’s called Musical Line Editing (MLE), and it’s the ghostwriter’s secret ace-in-the-hole to transform a good manuscript. In fact, MLE is exactly the type of polish traditional publishers used to do on all their acquired titles, but now can only afford to do for high-end authors.

NAIWE's Conference Speaker Dick Margulis Self-publishing authors have become one of the biggest, and often best, potential clients for freelancers, especially editors, proofreaders, indexers, illustrators, photographers, and book designers. Working with these clients often means shepherding them through the publishing process. In this webinar, discover how to manage this potentially profitable side of freelancing.

Guest: NAIWE's Benefit Partner Fictionary The editing industry is full of secrets. And one of them is “All writers should perform their own story edit.” We’re talking about a structural edit of fiction. Kristina Stanley will share why story editing is essential and the top 5 steps in a structural edit of a novel, and you’ll leave this session with actionable advice you can immediately apply to your book.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Fictionary Are you a fiction editor who wants to elevate your editing skills? Perhaps you’re a copyeditor looking to expand your business into story editing. Or are you looking for a method to edit consistently and quickly every time? Editing a novel is a complex, cognitive task. This webinar shows you the critical story elements to evaluate when performing a story edit.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Fictionary Writers know the excitement of typing “The End” on their first draft. Before you share your story with others, you owe it to yourself to tell the best possible story. Learn how to story edit to refine a story readers will enjoy reading from beginning to end! Maybe you’re a structural editor for fiction and are worried that you’re overly influencing a client’s manuscript.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Intelligent Editing If you use CMOS, the collaboration between the Manual and PerfectIt offers a new way to check your documents. This session shows how you can use The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt to save time in your editing work. It takes a deep dive into how the style works and what it finds so that you understand how and when to apply it.

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre Everyone appreciates an apt simile or striking metaphor. Figurative language enlivens prose and aids the reader’s understanding. But it is easy to get entangled in mixed metaphors, comparisons that fizzle, or images that convey the opposite of what the writer intends. And writers are not always the best judges of their effects.

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre We know that split infinitives are okay, sentences can begin with conjunctions, sentence-ending prepositions are perfectly good English, and it’s okay to use hopefully as a sentence adverb. We know this because grammarians and linguists have been gleefully exploding shibboleths and bogus rules. But what rules or usages are worth maintaining?

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre John, who was a working newspaper editor for 40 years, has watched writers grapple with changing patterns of English usage and wants to help you make reasonable decisions. Anticipating your concerns, he is preparing advice on perennial concerns: Should we give up on “whom”? Is singular “they” here to stay and acceptable everywhere? What can we do about “lie” and “lay”?

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid Editing your manuscript sentence by sentence can be daunting, but line editing is a crucial part of the writing process. Take the fear out of line editing with a structured approach to improving your prose. Learn to elevate your storytelling with a step-by-step approach to line editing. Learn to harness editing technology to breathe life into your manuscript with ease.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid As writers we often spend too much time focusing on what our ideas are instead of how to communicate those ideas most effectively. If we don’t sharpen our sentences with our readers in mind, then our ideas will get lost and our writing will be less engaging. In this presentation, ProWritingAid will walk you through five key ways to improve the craft of your writing.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner ProWritingAid As nice as it would be, writing your novel isn’t over when you type “The End.” In fact, the actual work is just beginning. During the editing process, your novel will go from rough first draft to thrilling final manuscript. In this workshop, a ProWritingAid rep will walk you through the most important edits you should make to your manuscript to ensure it’s publish-ready.