Erin Taylor Young brings a unique blend of humor and depth to any event. Her focus is to serve, challenge, and encourage audiences, helping them to embrace the deep places in their faith, life, and writing.

An author, editor, speaker, and podcaster, Erin’s deepest passion is the Word of God and bringing encouragement from His truth to others. She’s served as faculty and spoken at writing conferences across the country and has taught in multiple formats about writing, publishing, editing, and following God in this thing we call life.

CONTINUING SESSIONS  (5-8 hours)

Editing and Revising Your Novel

Are you receiving rejections that say your manuscript is close but just not there yet? Are you ready to take your story to the next level, but aren’t sure how? Erin Taylor Young will use her own experience as a professional editor to train you to edit your own novel. You’ll learn how to dig below the surface of your manuscript and identify hidden weaknesses and find solutions to turn your story into a powerful emotional experience for readers.

Finishing the First Draft

Having trouble getting your story all the way to “The End”? Learn the secrets that seasoned writers use to complete a full-length writing project. Writer’s block is a myth. You’ll learn the components of a successful manuscript, how to implement effective writing habits tailored just for you, and what to do when you get stuck. This workshop will provide resources, tools, and a positive mindset to inspire you toward the completion of your manuscript.

TWO HOUR SESSIONS

Write from the Deep

God’s call to us is clear: come away with Him, let His words sink deep into us first, then take His truths to the world. This session, based on Ezekiel 2:1-3:22, will challenge writers to go deep with God in their call and their craft, for it is in the Deep that writers find refreshment, renewal, and restored passion.

Overcoming Damaging Self-Talk

God’s creative power is in words, especially in those we say to ourselves. Words can breathe truth—or lies—into our hearts and spirits. The truth helps us write with courage to fulfill our God-given potential. Lies cripple us. Come learn how to overcome your negative self-talk and turn your words into a vehicle of encouragement and empowerment.

ONE HOUR SESSIONS

5 Crucial Ways to Safeguard Your Writer’s Heart

Writers feel pressured, stressed, and under attack in so many different ways these days, but some of the most debilitating attacks are those to the writer’s heart. Discouragement. Frustration. Questioning our purpose. We’ve all been there, but we don’t have to stay there. In this session, you’ll learn 5 crucial ways to safeguard your heart and free yourself to write with the authenticity and purpose God desires for you.

Is Your Manuscript Inspiring Hope in Readers?

As Christian writers, we have an opportunity to bring inspire readers and offer life changing hope. As readers develop new tools to improve their lives, or see characters triumph through adversity, or deepen their understanding of God and his world, hope makes readers believe their future will be better than today. In this workshop, you’ll learn what hope is, how it can be formed in human beings, and how to nurture an underlying trajectory of hope in your manuscript.

Podcasting to Build Your Platform

Want to engage an audience and build a platform before you publish your book? Or grow the tribe you already have? There’s nothing like podcasting to deepen your audience’s personal connection to you. In this step-by-step workshop you’ll learn how, with surprisingly little equipment, you can create your own podcast.

Dialogue Dos and Don’ts

We talk all the time, so what’s so hard about writing dialogue? Plenty. Learn three secrets to writing effective dialogue and three things you should never, ever do.

5 Spiritual Truths Every Writer Needs to Know (also works well as a keynote)

We’ve been tasked by Almighty God to do this thing called writing, and it can be one of the greatest adventures of our lives. Or…it can be pockmarked with worry, frustration, discouragement, and lack of direction. This workshop will give foundational truths every writer needs to know—and cling to—so that our paths are lit by confident fellowship with our Creator every step of the way.

Did God Really Ask You to Write? (also works well as a keynote)

Most of us are writing because we believe God gave us this task. So why do so many writers struggle with doubt? Why do we wonder if we really did hear God correctly? Or maybe you’ve been asking God about writing and you’ve heard…nothing. Is it still okay to spend your time, not to mention money, on writing? This session will help you put your doubts to rest!