Medical Romance & Adventure

Classes & Workshops

Julie is a contract writing instructor for Keyano College, teaching the
following business writing and communication workshops:

Writing in the Workplace - Writing in the workplace has evolved over the years as technology has provided industry the tools and resources to communicate faster, cheaper and more directly. Employees are more dependent on information from their co-workers to complete tasks or make decisions.

As a participant you will learn to:

• Write effective and persuasive business communications, such as email and letters.
• Identify your target audience by conducting an audience analysis.
• Proofread.
• Avoid the pitfalls of faulty tone and grammar.
• Use punctuation correctly and appropriately, to avoid costly
  mistakes.

Introduction to Report and Proposal Writing - Are you dreading writing reports? Does it take you an eternity to finish a proposal? Have you ever had rejected proposals? This one day workshop will provide you with knowledge and writing tips you can immediately apply at work. You will also gain tools for effective analysis and outlines, and discover how to use appropriate language through hands-on exercises.

Topics covered are:

• 7 steps for report writing.
• 4 types of proposals.
• Charting your audience.
• Technical level.
• Decision making level.
• Report elements.
• Editing checklist.
• Tackling the tone.

Procedure Writing - The development and use of effective, user-friendly procedures is essential for safe and efficient operations. Spend a day learning how to design and develop workable documents for your group according to established principles and best practices.

Managing Your Words - Your words can be your greatest strength or liability. In this workshop you will find out how you can assess your own verbal strengths to polish your professional and personal image to reach your full potential.

Julie teaches the following fiction writing workshops online or in person:

Writing for Magazines

Interested in writing for magazines? This class is for you! You'll learn the process of creating an article, from coming up with an idea to how to sell that idea to a magazine and write your finished piece. We'll tear apart real examples of successful queries and their subsequent published articles see what worked, and what didn't work, and why.

Topics include:

• Why fiction writers should also write for magazines.
• Choosing the right magazine and editor to query.
• Topics, research, angles, titles and hooks.
• The knock-out magazine query letter.
• How-to: get quotes, statistics and fact check.
• Writing the article, sidebars and photography.
• Word count, deadlines, contracts and invoicing.
• Creating a portfolio and finding your niche.

Love Your Voice/Got Voice?

Love Your Voice/Got Voice? will discuss Voice as an extension of each and every individual writer and all the elements that make up their Voice: emotion, core story/theme, description, pacing, characterization and mechanics. The workshop will feature a few well-chosen concrete examples, but focus on a series of on-the-spot writing exercises that will give attendees the tools to discover, refine, polish and even change their Voice.

Every writer wants a fabulous voice. For most popular authors that
achievement seems effortless. But for the rest of us, it's often hard to
tell what makes our voice special...and how to capitalize on our natural strengths. This workshop examines the six key elements that make up an author's unique voice:

• Emotion -- how much? What kind? How is it shown? How can you vary the level?
• Core Story / Theme -- the gut-level core that inspired your novel in the first place.
• Description -- from terse to lyrical, sketchy to detailed, and
  everything in between.
• Pacing -- an art of its own, and a critical factor in any writer's
  voice.
• Characterization - Who you choose to write about is a key pivot
  point in your voice.
• Mechanics -- It's not just about the RULES of writing, it's how you chose to use them.
  
  

Participants will see and hear specific examples of how all these elements work in the distinctive voices of various well-known authors. An on-the-spot writing exercise will follow the discussion of each ingredient. These exercises will give participants the tools to refine, polish, and -- depending on the kind of writing they want to pursue -- possibly even change their voice. Writers will leave the workshop with tools that can last a lifetime.

Diversify Your Writing Career

Love Your Voice

Julie Rowe has been freelancing for magazines for over five years. She's an enthusiastic instructor who enjoys lively discussion and encourages questions. She has taught online and in person for the Calgary chapter of Romance Writer's of America and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines such as Canadian Living, Reader's Digest (Canada) and Today's Parent.