It’s the first day of spring in Australia today, so what better time to launch my brand new on-demand writing and book creation courses!
It’s been a long time in the making: inspiring writers and teaching them about their craft since 1991, working in the publishing industry since 1996, leading the award-winning Northern Beaches Writers’ Group since 2009, answering questions monthly from over 250 members (across the years) and reviewing over 3 million of their words, teaching face-to-face writing workshops since 2012, founding and leading multiple community creativity projects, a BA (Hons) in English Literature (with Creative Writing, Psychology and Media/Cultural Studies), over a dozen national writing awards, and work published all over the world…
With so much knowledge to share with everyone, I’ve never had enough time to do so. Blog posts on creating writing (under my ‘Writing Rockface’ tag) hasn’t been enough. Teaching locally hasn’t been enough. Then of course Covid-19 meant no more face-to-face workshops and a massive income drop.
Until the Northern Beaches Council and the NSW government through Create NSW and the Creative Kids Program both came along. They offered grants assisting with business adaptation and they both believed in me, in my skills and knowledge enough to fund me! It was perfect timing!
Over the last few months, I have been working tirelessly and diligently six (sometimes seven) days a week, 6am til 8pm+, to get these courses up and running, because we all agreed they needed to get out there asap! Big thanks to my hubbie for cooking dinners for me and the kids! It took much, much longer than I expected, because as I created the courses I realised just how much knowledge I had to share, which people would otherwise miss out on – I had to include it all!
I also had to learn professional LMS (learning management system) software, which involved lots of research into how it would all work, and then LMS training, as well as training in video production and PayPal payment security.
It’s all done! Yay!
There’s even a Sample Course for you to try before they buy! You can take these on-demand courses at your own convenience, to your own ability and at your own pace, anytime and anywhere!
I’m sincerely grateful to the amazing NSW government through Create NSW and the Creative Kids Program and to the Northern Beaches Council for their support – I could not have done this without you!
There are practical, technical, and inspirational courses, for both adults and young writers, all offering an informative, self-reflective and fun learning experience. Please enjoy OR please share this link (and any of the images in this post) with someone who might enjoy them: zenashapter.com/courses
