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Improve Your Queries

Find New Markets

Discover What Editors Want

Get Constructive Feedback

Hone Your
Observation Skills

Follow Your Dreams

In This Online Course

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Instructor Wendee Holtcamp
Online Nature Writing Course and Advanced Writing Workshop

| Writing Course | Advanced Writing Workshop |

We're on the high seas hunting for a needle floating in the vast Pacific. The needle is stuck through a blue Styrofoam bobber that's being dragged behind a leatherback hatchling via a 3-foot string. Even though we've got the means to find it -- a radio transmitter -- no one said this would be easy.

- Wendee Holtcamp in "Love & Death on Turtle Beach" a 3-week Costa Rica Expedition for Discovery Channel Online covering leatherback turtle research.

I've been at this for over twelve years, and I love nothing more than going on adventures with scientists around the world and writing about it for magazines. What job could be more fun?

It is easy being green, or at least writing green. If you want to write "green," this online course is for you. People who take this course include published writers who want to write for about the environment or for nature, conservation and outdoor travel markets, scientists who want to write more for the general public, and people who have always dreamed about writing for publication, but don't know where to begin. You might be pleasantly surprised to learn how easy it is to publish with the right guidance and careful instruction. The course meets the needs of any level of writer because the assignments are geared for all levels, and can be tailored to the beginner or veteran writer wanting new contacts and resources in the conservation writing niche.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees... - John Muir

Sierra Club founder John Muir wasn't the first to be inspired by nature enough to write about it, but his prose provided a cornerstone for the increasingly popular genre we know today as nature writing. Besides selling to more than 35 print magazines dedicated exclusively to nature and the outdoors, you can increasingly market such stories to general interest, travel, science, regional, inflight, outdoor sports, children's, and health/lifestyle publications, as well as the dot-com niche.

Who: Aspiring and professional writers alike will benefit. Some writers prefer to just receive the weekly resources, while others prefer to actively participate. Students are welcome to participate as little or as much as they want.

What: Course assignments guide you through performing an in-depth analysis of your dream market, developing a carefully crafted query, writing a short article, and sending it in to your target market. Learn how to use the techniques of observation, journaling, and topic-spoking to improve your writing and land more assignments.

Why: This course is jam-packed with useful information. You will get:

  • Constructive feedback on your queries and writing
  • Q&A interviews with environment/nature magazine editors including
    • E the Environmental Magazine
    • Smithsonian Magazine
    • Audubon Magazine
    • Wildlife Conservation Magazine
    • Sierra Magazine
    • OnEarth Magazine
    • Orion Magazine
    • National Wildlife Magazine
    • National Geographic and NG Adventure
    • And more!
  • Weekly handouts with useful resources, articles, reviews, editor contacts and more.
  • An attentive instructor that tailors the course to student interests

This course was first offered several times through the Freelance Success Institute and is now offered through Holtcamp's business, LOGOS Communications, LLC, of which she is sole proprietor. Holtcamp also authored course materials for the Australian College of Journalism's "Writing about Nature and the Outdoors" course and was profiled in the 2001 Writer's Market as the Nature/Outdoor Writer.

When: o July 24-Sep 4, 2010 (Register by July 17)
o Sep 4-Oct 16, 2010 (Register by Aug 28)

Cost: $200

Sign Up Now! Pay by Paypal below or to pay by check, send an email to Wendee Holtcamp with your full name, email address, and your interest in signing up.

As soon as you pay, you'll have access to all the course materials so you can print, save and read the Q&As and resources, and even get started on the projects/assignments, which will make your in-class time all the more focused and helpful.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please specify which class dates you're signing up for.

Wendee Holtcamp
LOGOS Communications, LLC
PO Box 5021
Kingwood TX 77325.

Make check payable to Wendee Holtcamp.

Email Wendee for more info - bohemian_at_wendeeholtcamp.com


Class may be cancelled or date changed if fewer than 6 individuals register (or your registration will get rolled into the next session). Fee will be refunded if course is cancelled, minus the small Paypal processing fee. No courses have ever been cancelled! If you pay by check (preferred anyway), I will hold onto it until I know the course "makes."


MATERIALS ONLY

What: If you want to get all the class materials but don't have time for a 6-week interactive course, then you can purchase the materials only.
When: Pay anytime, and you'll get instant access to the materials
How: Pay by mailing check to the address (PO Box 5021, Kingwood TX 77325) or by Paypal link below.
How much? $95 by check, $100 by Paypal.


ADVANCED Writing Workshop

When: June 12, 2010 Start Date

A 6-week program designed for students who have taken my previous course, this workshop will help you identify your long- and short-term career goals, uncover creative blocks, and develop steps to achieve your writing goals. This course will focus on what you need to focus on, but each student will develop two completed writing projects with ample feedback that will allow you to build on your strengths. You will use the tools gained from the previous course to identify a story idea, a target market, and write two pieces - ready for submission - after one or more revisions. These writing projects - whether queries or essays or news briefs - will preferably be submitted during the course to the publication of your choosing. The course costs includes two phone mentoring sessions with the instructor, Wendee Holtcamp.

Students who have not taken my other online writing course can still sign up, albeit at a higher rate because you will be receiving all the course materials from the basic course as well.

Returning students - $250

Contact Wendee for more information!

Returning students, click here to pay by Paypal.

Wendee's Recommended Writing Books Page
This page provides links to books on Wendee's bookshelf that you an order directly through Powell's Online Bookstore.



About Instructor Wendee Holtcamp
For over ten years, Holtcamp has written for publications such as Audubon Magazine, Sierra Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, Hooked on the Outdoors, WildBird, and Discovery Channel Online/ AnimalPlanet.com. She is a regular contributor to Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. She has a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology.

Feedback from Past Students

"I just wanted to tell you how much I've enjoyed the class. You're a wonderful and inspiring teacher and I've learned a great deal."
- Diane Williamson

"On the plane trips I found myself thinking about how much I learned about writing for magazine publication. I admire you so much! You've been a generous and talented teacher, and I think my life was enriched with this class."
- LeeAnn Kryder

"I sold my first nature article!!! I sold my "Protecting the Humboldt penguins in Peru" story to Wildlife Journal, a two-year-old quarterly magazine. I have been very persistent, as you urged us in class."
- Pat Terry

"This has been an extremely worthwhile venture for me, not only for learning the mechanics of a new craft, but also for gaining a new perspective in critical thinking."
- David Baker

"I've thoroughly enjoyed your class. Your class has exposed me to topics to write about and ways to angle to pitch to magazines. I've learned a lot about how journalism works from your insight, feedback on my assignments, and the various useful info such as interviews, etc."
- Michelle Ziegler

"I also wanted to say how much I am enjoying this course Wendee and appreciate your teaching style, content etc etc. BRAVO! Really getting a lot out of it and that will only double and triple once I really get into the assignments."
-Sandra Phinney

"Wendee's experience as a nature writer, the individualized feedback she offers and the extensive list of resources she includes in the course materials make Nature Writing a valuable experience for both beginning and seasoned writers."
- Nancy Ross-Flanigan, Freelance Science Writer



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