From: Wendee HoltcampSubject: Online Nature Writing Course Announcing a New Course offered through Freelance Success Institute - to register or get more info visit their web site: http://www.freelancesuccess.com or email me wendee@greendzn.com. Registration is open until Apr 28. Classes start the week of May 8. WRITING ABOUT NATURE AND THE OUTDOORS "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees..." Sierra Club founder John Muir wasn't the first to be inspired by nature enough to write about it, but his prose provided a cornerstone for the increasingly popular genre we know today as nature writing. Writing About Nature and the Outdoors will teach you to sharpen your observation skills and where to look for the latest outdoor news. Students will learn to match article ideas to target publications, develop catchy queries, research wisely and edit judiciously. Instructor: Wendee Holtcamp Dates: 6 weeks, starting the week of May 8 Fee: $95 About the instructor: Wendee Holtcamp has written essays, features and news briefs for a variety of major national publications, including Discovery Channel Online, Audubon Magazine, E the Environmental Magazine, Animals Magazine, Aqua and Scuba Times. She wrote a supplement to John Wiley & Sons Environmental Science Textbook and is an adjunct biology instructor at Kingwood College. Wendee holds a master's degree in Wildlife Ecology from Texas A&M University. She enjoys observing and photographing nature and wildlife, hiking, kayaking and running. She lives in Texas. ------ Freelance Success Institute announces its January 2000 schedule of unique correspondence courses. All courses are conducted by private Internet mailing lists that allow group discussion, yet enable communication by ordinary e-mail. Any e-mail address, on any network, works. The online format allows for an unusual amount of interaction between instructor and student. Class size is limited to allow the instructors time to focus on each student. Your instructor will mail you an e-mail lesson once a week, which will include a homework assignment, which the instructor will then critique. Class discussion on the Internet mailing list will be visible to all participants in the class, but critiques may be shared or by private e-mail. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wendee Holtcamp -- wendee@greendzn.com -- http://www.greendzn.com Environment/Travel/Science Writer -- Poet -- Photographer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning ------------------------------