Courses: Instructor-Led
Instructor-led classes begin and end on specific days and have weekly assignments with instructor feedback. The assignments have deadlines and the classes include forum participation but you don’t have to be at a particular place at a particular time to participate in the class.
On-demand instructor-led classes (you choose when to schedule them) are listed at the bottom of this page.
Club Ed for Editors membership program – yearly
Need some help finding clients, making better money, and staying productive? Or would you just like to feel a little less alone as you go about your day? The Club Ed Membership Program for Editors is meant for freelance editors at every stage of their career, from those exploring what editing is to those who’ve…
Year End Review (Dec 2 – Dec 13, 2024)
$35. Free for members. (Note: Members need to use the coupon that can be found in the membership program classroom.) December 2 through December 13, 2024. In this forum-based class/conversation, we’ll do a review of our individual businesses and reflect on what we’ve accomplished, what went well, and what we’ve learned. We’ll consider how our…
Beginning Developmental Editing for Fiction (Jan 13 – Feb 9, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to become a developmental editor | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Beginner This highly popular class is meant for anyone interested in working with novelists to help them tell better stories. We’ll discuss the basics of developmental editing (what it is and isn’t), the methods of developmental editing in fiction,…
Editorial Toolkit: Beta Reading (Jan 15 – Feb 11, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | Editorial Toolkit: Beta Reading | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Beginner In this class, we’ll discuss the basics of beta reading for both fiction and nonfiction, including: the differences between beta reading and other types of feedback and editing ways to establish those differences to potential clients so they see the…
Line Editing: Dialogue (Jan 20 – Feb 2, 2025)
$150 (Members: $135) | How to line edit dialogue| 2 weeks | With Instructor Feedback | Intermediate Line editors often feel confident about line editing a narrative – removing unnecessary actions, trimming down descriptive info-dumping, brightening up boring prose – but when it comes to dialogue, they feel less sure of what they’re doing. This…
Editing for Plot and Story Structure (Feb 10 – Mar 9, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to edit for plot and story structure | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate Plot and story structure (also called narrative structure) are the big-picture elements of storytelling that we might call “what happens” and “the framework within which the plot (what happens) is shown.” Authors (and editors!) sometimes think…
Beginning Copyediting for Fiction (Feb 17 – Mar 16, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to copyedit fiction | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Beginner In this class, we’ll discuss the basics of copyediting fiction, including: understanding the primary goal of ensuring consistency throughout a ms how copyediting is different for fiction versus nonfiction using The Chicago Manual of Style to make editorial decisions the…
Intermediate Developmental Editing for Fiction (Feb 17 – Mar 16, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to become a developmental editor | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate In this class, we’ll cover the more in-depth concerns of developmental editing, diving deeper into issues like perspective and subtext. We’ll cover issues that crop up often: intensive developmental editing, editing more experienced authors who need guidance to…
Editorial Toolkit: Coaching Writers (Feb 19 – Mar 18, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to coach writers | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate This class is designed to help you get started in offering coaching as a service to writers. Coaching can be a lucrative addition to your menu of services and can be a great way to help writers who are not…
Editing for Character Development (Mar 17 – Apr 13, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to edit for character development | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate In a well-written novel, the characters – especially the main character – will seem like real people who engage the reader’s attention if not the reader’s empathy. Authors often need our help in figuring out what to do…
Call to Adventure: Editing the Opening (Mar 24 – Apr 6, 2025)
$150 (Members: $135) | How to edit novel openings| 2 weeks | With Instructor Feedback | Intermediate Readers are judgy. When they’re deciding whether to read a book, they often give the author only a few pages – sometimes not even a whole chapter! This class is designed to show editors how to help authors…
Beginning Line Editing for Fiction (Mar 24 – Apr 20, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to line edit | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Beginner This class introduces you to the main concepts of line editing, which is sentence-level editing intended to help polish an author’s prose. Line editing is in very high demand among indie authors, so it’s an excellent skill to learn. But…
Editorial Toolkit: Book Doctoring and Ghostwriting (Mar 26 – Apr 22, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to perform book doctoring and ghostwriting | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate This class shows you the basics of book doctoring, coauthoring, and ghostwriting, which go beyond editing to actually writing and/or rewriting an author’s work. Though much of the available work is in nonfiction, there are opportunities for…
Editing for World-Building and Setting (Apr 21 – May 18, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to edit for world-building and setting | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate Though writers and editors have borrowed the term “world-building” from the science fiction and fantasy genres, creating a believable story world is important for any author writing fiction in any genre. This class shows how developmental editors…
Intermediate Copyediting for Fiction (Apr 28 – May 25, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to copyedit fiction | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate This class picks up where Beginning Copyediting for Fiction leaves off. It assumes you know the basics of using The Chicago Manual of Style to make editorial decisions, how to write editorial queries, and how to write (and use) a…
Editorial Toolkit: Creating Classes & Info Products (Apr 30 – May 27, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to create and sell classes and information products | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate This class will introduce you to a whole new set of money-making opportunities! I’m not going to pretend that there’s any such thing as “passive income” unless you’re super-rich and can live off the interest…
Editing Sagging Middles (May 12 – May 25, 2025)
$150 (Members: $135) | How to edit the middle of a novel | 2 weeks | With Instructor Feedback | Intermediate We’ve all read them: manuscripts where the engaging opening yields to a mired-down mess. We call that the sagging middle. The tension depletes, the characters lose their way, even the antagonist is bored. The…
Intermediate Line Editing for Fiction (Jun 2 – Jun 29, 2025)
$330 (Member price: $297) | How to line edit | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate This is a class about exploring how the use of effective, evocative language can support storytelling; it is not a class about where the commas go. (That’s Beginning Copyediting for Fiction.) We’ll dig into more complex line editing issues…
Getting Editorial Work from Book Publishers/Packagers (Jun 4 – Jul 1, 2025)
$330 (Members: $297) | How to get work from publisher clients | 4 weeks | Instructor-led | Intermediate This popular class is meant for editors with some experience who would like to branch out from working primarily with indie authors. The information and assignments are meant for both copy editors and developmental editors. Face it,…
Coaching for Editors and Writers
$175 Online Coaching for Editors and Writers. Both new and experienced editors sometimes need professional guidance in the craft of editing or in growing their editing business. Jennifer Lawler, an experienced editor, offers personal coaching to help. Coaching typically takes place via phone conversations (Zoom if you prefer) or through email. Types of coaching Jennifer…
Missed Homework Makeup
$25. If you’ve taken an instructor-led class from Club Ed but life got in the way and you didn’t turn in an assignment before it ended, now’s your chance to get feedback on that assignment. Once you’ve purchased the Missed Homework Makeup product, send along your assignment to ResortDirector@ClubEdFreelancers.com and I’ll return feedback within two…
