I’ll Be Teaching

A big part of writing, as I have always understood it, is teaching.

Most of the time, people read articles to learn something. Often, they read fact-based fiction (no, I will not call it “faction”) to learn something.

Many writers I know — Peggy Fielding, Romney Nesbitt, and Dusty Richards among them –  teach as a regular part of their writing.

It was around this time last year that I learned The Center of Continuing Education & Community Services at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, was looking for additional teachers to send proposals in for possible inclusion in the program.

I started working on a proposal, but there were a lot of unanswered questions for me. I didn’t know, really, how to go about getting the answers.

This year, I noticed they were still — again? — looking for teachers. There was a key difference, though. They were offering an informational class on how to do a proposal for the program. I signed up.

As a result of the class, I submitted a proposal for a class on how to make money writing. Unoriginally enough, I called it “Make Money Writing.”

One day last week, I found out that I will, indeed, be teaching that class this summer. It will be on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 June 2 through June 30. There will be a total of five classes. I plan to take participants through the process from finding ideas, finding markets, writing a query, and drafting the article.

Yes, there will be assignments throughout the class. Chief among them will be one I borrow from Peggy Fielding: Write at least 30 minutes every day.

A selling writer writes.

And, yes, I’ll be teaching.

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