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writing speculative nonfiction

Speculative Nonfiction: Writing Beyond the Known

$149.00

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.

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poetry playhouse writing course

Get Inspired!: Poems and Poets to Light Up Your Writing

$149.00

Write new poetry inspired by US historical poets and poets laureate, while immersing yourself in poetry to transform your writing and life.

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Get Back into Writing

Get Back Into Writing

$49.00

Start or restart your love of the written word in this gentle and encouraging recorded seminar, full of mindset support, advice, and encouragement.

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show and tell nonfiction writing course

Show and Tell: How to Write Captivating Memoir and Nonfiction

$49.00

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.

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Finding Confidence and Motivation in Your Writing

$49.00

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. 

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writing prompts for writers block

Filling the Blank Page: How to Move through Creative Blocks

$49.00

Understand your creative blocks in new ways, and discover how to turn them into opportunities for creativity and play.

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Story Structure Writing Course

Story Structure for Novelists

$149.00

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.

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Fast-Draft Your Novel with a Zero Draft

Fast-Draft Your Novel With a Zero Draft

$149.00

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.

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The Successful Novel

The Successful Novel: Everything You Need to Write, Revise, and Publish

$399.00

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.

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comedy writing workshop

Writing Funny: Comedy Writing Workshop

$89.00

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.

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