Self-Guided Courses
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Self-Guided Courses Available Now
Writing Picture Books: What Editors Want First-Time Authors to Know
Tell vivid, imaginative stories with this thorough guide into picture book writing. You’ll learn what children want to read, what editors want to publish, and how to share your heritage with young readers.
Toward Your Poetic Vision: A Guide Through the Poetic Life, from Craft to Publication
Write your most powerful poetry in this in-depth guidebook to the poet’s craft and life.
The Only Submission Workshop You Will Ever Need
Learn to navigate the literary world and have your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction published—then read and celebrated.
Speculative Nonfiction: Writing Beyond the Known
Explore the emerging field of speculative nonfiction—nonfiction on the edges of what is known—and discover new truths as you write from possibility, intuition, and wonder.
Get Inspired!: Poems and Poets to Light Up Your Writing
Write new poetry inspired by US historical poets and poets laureate, while immersing yourself in poetry to transform your writing and life.
Get Back Into Writing
Start or restart your love of the written word in this gentle and encouraging recorded seminar, full of mindset support, advice, and encouragement.
Show and Tell: How to Write Captivating Memoir and Nonfiction
Discover how to share your true story in ways that captivate your readers, by balancing showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling its broader, resonant themes.
Finding Confidence and Motivation in Your Writing
Join celebrated novelist and children’s author Sarah Aronson to work through our creative and emotional blocks, and come to the page with joy and excitement.
Filling the Blank Page: How to Move through Creative Blocks
Understand your creative blocks in new ways, and discover how to turn them into opportunities for creativity and play.
Story Structure for Novelists
Develop your story into a full-length novel—with no overwhelm, stuckness, or dead ends. You’ll discover confidence in the process of structuring your story, the tools to tell a story with deeper thematic and structural meaning, and a clear roadmap to follow as you draft and revise your novel.
Fast-Draft Your Novel With a Zero Draft
Write your novel! You’ll employ the Zero Draft methodology to get your novel out of your head and onto the page, and discover a step-by-step, flexible approach that combines the best of “plotting” and “pantsing”—while abolishing writer’s block.
The Successful Novel: Everything You Need to Write, Revise, and Publish
Write your best novel. Through in-depth chapters and exercises, novelist and agent interviews, and a wealth of text and video tools and resources, you’ll discover a clear guide to getting your novel written and into the hands of happy readers.
Writing Funny: Comedy Writing Workshop
You can be funny! Learn comedy writing: the shared formula of every joke, and how we can apply that formula in our work. Explore twenty-eight comedy writing tools, and learn how to apply these tools to your own writing, with a step-by-step process to write a joke on any topic.