Q1 2025 Writing Workshop 1: Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
Educate, Influence, and Entertain Your Readers
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Do you want to help people understand what you see in your organization or with your clients? Sure, speaking works. But as soon as you've said it—poof—the words vanish.
Speaking isn't enough for you. It's time to add writing to your skills. But you haven't made friends with writing yet.
You can learn to write. And write well. (And since you don't have a ton of time, write fast.)
Does this describe your writing experience so far:
- You know what you want to say, and you're not sure how to say it.
- When you offer other people your writing, you don't receive feedback.
- You look at a blank page and wonder, "What the heck should I say?"
- People say, "Sorry, I couldn't quite get through this."
- You say to yourself, "Who wants to hear from me? Surely, someone else has already said this."
- You've started any number of articles or books and haven't finished any or enough.
- You have articles, and you're not sure where to place them for maximum effect.If so, this workshop is for you.
If so, this workshop is for you.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Week 1: Benefits of writing. How to make writing a habit. How to improve your writing throughput. Start writing.
- Week 2: How to write fast to write well.
- Week 3: Choose an ideal reader, and determine what matters to them. How to organize a piece for that ideal reader.
- Week 4: Edit just enough.
- Week 5: Feedback and when to ask for it. Publishing and where you might publish.
- Week 6: Help yourself succeed.
The details:
This workshop starts on a Tuesday. Each week, the videos are available on a Tuesday. Your homework is due to me six days later, by Sunday, midnight Eastern.
The Q1 2025 workshop starts January 7, 2025 with pre-work. The videos open on January 14, 2025. The formal part of the workshop finishes February 16, 2025. (You can take advantage of optional homework, which ends on February 23.).
Each week, you'll watch several videos and then do your homework.
Send me your homework every Sunday night by midnight Eastern. Not later. That's Sunday, midnight Eastern. That allows me to read everyone's homework on Monday and give every writer a personalized reply. In addition, I will offer general feedback to the entire workshop. That general response is available when the next week is available.
What you get for your registration:
- An ebook copy of Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer: Educate, Influence, and Entertain Your Readers.
- 6-week workshop with a writing assignment each week. (I expect you to send me one piece each week. Some weeks, you have the opportunity to send me more pieces.)
- If you send me your writing, I will offer feedback that you can take or ignore.
- Writing prompts, if you need them.
- Lifetime access to all the class videos and response videos.
- Lifetime access to my private Discord community of writers who have studied with me before. Many of them continue to write and publish. You can become part of a community of successful writers.
This is not a group workshop. I am the only one who will read your writing.
You can expect these benefits:
If you practice, you will learn to:
- Avoid the blank page problem.
- Improve your writing clarity.
- Write faster and easier.
- Write blog posts, articles, and longer pieces without pulling your hair out. (This workshop will offer you insights on book writing, but I designed this workshop for shorter pieces, such as blog posts and articles. Maybe up to 10,000-word white papers.)
- Structure your writing to attract readers, regardless of who your readers are.
- Sell yourself through your writing. (The education, influence, and entertain ideas from the book.)
Enroll now.
Your Instructor
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your thorny problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable options that might work. Those practical alternatives can help them be more effective with others at work. With those choices, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their product development.
Johanna is the author of these books:
- Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility
- Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit
- Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer
- The Modern Management Made Easy triad: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself, Practical Ways to Lead and Serve Others, and Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization
- Write a Conference Proposal
- From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby)
- Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver
- Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition
- Project Portfolio Tips: Twelve Ideas for Focusing on the Work You Need to Start & Finish
- Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein)
- Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost
- Manage Your Job Search
- Hiring Geeks That Fit
- The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
In addition to the books, Johanna has published hundreds of articles and blog posts. See her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.