THE LUCRATIVE WORLD OF HEALTH ARTICLES AND BOOKS
Instructor: Cal Orey
Welcome to the wide, wide world of medical, health and fitness consumers. The trend is for people to get well and stay well. And it’s this kind of attitude that opens up doors to a variety of departments such as health, diet and nutrition, diseases and conditions, fitness and exercise, family health and sexual health. While I am a health nut, I didn’t plan on becoming a health writer, but for over 15 years, it’s the health-related projects that have kept me busy. And there’s plenty of work to go around. I will help you to know the potential pitfalls—and practical points to help meet the challenges of writing magazine articles and health books.
In this 6-week course, you can expect to learn: Cutting-edge ways to tap the health market, and you will create and show your own ideas for submission to health editors and publishers. For each strategy, Ms. Orey will provide hour-by-hour professional guidance and suggestions as well, while students participate in discussion.
- Find Cutting-Edge News: The tricks of finding timely topics in the health world
- Target Your Audience: How to find the right slant and format to make a perfect fit
- Get Statistics Smart: Ways to get up-to-date national numbers
- Team Up With Experts : The ways to team up with health gurus
- Lose the Medical-ese: The secrets to decoding dry medical terminology
- Devour Great Quotes: The nuts and bolts of getting quotes
- Use Metaphors: How to get a visual image of a topic
- Digest Good Studies: Which health research is best and how to get it
- Sprinkle In Anecdotes: How to add real-life people to health projects
- Check Your Facts: The nuts and bolts of fact-checking
By the end of this seminar, students can expect to have a handle on how to hook up with health professionals and use the health market to put food on the table.
Start Date: January 3, 2006 and every Wednesday thereafter.
Duration: 6 weeks
Class Materials: Instructor will provide.
Tuition: $85
Cal Orey is an accomplished author and journalist who holds a master's degree in English (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University. Over the past 15 years, she has written hundreds of health-related articles for national magazines and websites, specializing in topics as diverse as health, nutrition, and sexual health. Her articles have appeared in The Writer, Woman's World, Woman's Day, Men's Fitness, Let's Live, as well as Complete Woman, for which she is a contributing editor. Ms. Orey is also the author of the best-selling book The Healing Powers of Vinegar, and Doctors' Order: What 101 Doctors Do to Stay Healthy. Get her new book:
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