If you write nonfiction — and by that I mean any kind of nonfiction, from reflective essays to travelogue to memoir to history to self-help to whatever-it-is —and you want to learn how to do it better, there are many roads you can take.
You can draft and redraft and get feedback from friends and other writers you know, and learn as you go. It’s an honorable choice and a venerable one. Sometimes it’s a bit haphazard. But many people do make it work.
If you want to write better and you want to learn how to do it in a more direct and personal way, you can work with a developmental editor.
You can also choose to take a class. There are lots of them out there, on many aspects of nonfiction writing.
And this fall, you can also take a class with a developmental editor (me) that gives you the best of both worlds… plus a built-in community of fellow writers… at a considerably lower cost than one-on-one developmental editing.
Want to know more? Here you go! (Cameo appearance by Butter the Dog.)