The Business of Storytelling (Sep 14 – Dec 6, 2026)

Description

$150 (Members: $135) | How to create a writer-editor career| 4 lessons + accountability support through Dec 6, 2026 | Self-paced but with instructor support | Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced

If you’re a writer who would like to use your storytelling skills to help other writers (for pay!), you’re probably interested in the possibilities of freelance editing.

And if you’re already a freelance editor who is also a writer, you’ve probably discovered that sometimes the creative work falls by the wayside when the paying work gets busy.

This class is designed to help you work out a career path where the creative work doesn’t fall by the wayside—and where you don’t wind up evicted for nonpayment of rent, either!

I wrote my book The Business of Storytelling to help readers understand the possibilities of aligning a freelance editing career with a writing career so that they can make a living doing enjoyable work, even if their creative efforts (stories, novels, plays, poems) do not generate much income.

This class is intended to take up where that book leaves off. It’s about actually making the decisions and taking the actions that help you embark on and sustain a writer-editor career.

In addition to four lessons that help you get started (going at your own pace), the class includes a dedicated accountability forum with instructor support where you can set goals for your writer-editor business, discuss challenges, and otherwise find like-minded individuals to share the journey with.

The class is entirely online and asynchronous (you don’t have to be in any particular place at any particular time to participate).