Throughout 2021, in addition to my one-on-one coaching, I’ve been focused on developing and hosting several live seminars.

For example, this Saturday, I’m hosting my latest author training, How to Know if Your Fiction Writing is Good: A Game of 20 Questions.

Due to this focus on live training events, over the last few months I’ve been asked by several people why I bother with live seminars at all. They point out that it’s 2021 and online courses have been around for more than a decade. They explain how I can easily pre-record my training material and sell it as an online course rather than have to deal with the stress of a live online event.

I get it.

I have been a huge proponent of online and correspondence learning for years.

Back when I was studying English Literature at Carleton University, I took several courses via a television channel (yes, an actual TV channel, believe it or not!) the school used to broadcast certain courses. If you missed the broadcast, there was also a VHS library you could visit on campus to watch the missed class on videotape.

(Some part of me misses those long rows of tiny black television screens sitting atop VCRs with headphones snaking out from them.)

All of which is to say, I understand that learning does not need to be live.

Buuuuuuuut . . .

After a year and a half of quarantine, I can’t help but wonder if more isolated learning is really what anyone needs at this point.

The promise of the internet – the ability to bring people together from around the world – has largely led to more separation than unity, more loneliness than collaboration. It makes me wonder if watching an online course alone in your home office is really the best learning environment for a writer in the summer of 2021.

And so, yes, I am hosting my seminars live.

Not because I have to or need to, but because I want to.

I’m tired of talking into microphones and cameras while imagining the person listening or watching on the other end of the internet.

I want to see you. I want to know you. I want to collaborate with you!

From the New Romantics to the Modernists to the Inklings to the Beats, community has long been a part of the writing world. And so I invite you to join me for a live training session this Saturday.

On the training, I am going to share the 20 questions I use to easily analyze my client’s writing, quickly pinpoint what is working, and then effortlessly narrow in on what needs to change.

Simply put, with these 20 questions in your back pocket, you will never again wonder whether your writing is good or not.

You can get more details and register for the seminar here.

I hope you accept this invitation to be part of my community.

Your pal in writing,

 

Kevin T. Johns, writing coach