Creative Writing Courses and Ideas: An Online Resource for Writers

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Welcome to Creative Writing Now! This website and our writers' email group were created by writing teachers as a free service to support authors and poets at all stages of their writing lives.Free Fiction Writing Course: ENDLESS STORY IDEASThis free 3-day online course will show you how to get ideas whenever you need them.In case you ever worry that it's too late to achieve your writing dreams, consider these examples:Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison published her first book at age 39.Bestselling thriller writer Lee Child started writing novels when he was fired from his job at age 41.Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout wrote her first novel at 42.Raymond Chandler started writing mysteries in his mid-40s.Frank McCourt published his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Angela's Ashes, at age 66.Harriet Doerr's first novel, published when she was 74 years old, won a National Book Award.Millard Kaufman's first novel was published when he was 90 years old.It's never too late to accomplish great things with your writing. But first you have to get started.STEP 1 - Join our free email group. We'll send you help and inspiration to keep your writing on track. STEP 2 - Consider scheduling regular time for creative writing into your day -- even if you only have ten minutes. The key is to be consistent.Ten minutes a day may not seem like much. But all of those ten minute efforts will add up. For example, if you write just a half-page a day, in one year, you can finish a novel!For more creative writing inspiration, click here to join our free email group. Online Creative Writing CoursesBelow are some of our online creative writing courses. You'll find a complete list of creative writing courses in our Writer's Shop.Learn techniques to help you generate new creative writing ideas and inspiration whenever you need them.This 3-day e-mail course is currently available for free.Sign up here In this 8-week course, you'll learn how to develop story ideas into plots and how to structure a successful story from beginning to end. You'll also create a detailed story plan that you can use as a road map for your own stories and novels. Click here for detailsLearn how to create 3-dimensional characters and bring them to life in the reader's imagination.If you can make people care about your characters, they'll care about your stories. This 8-week e-mail course will show you how.Click here for detailsIn this 8-week course, you'll learn essential techniques for writing powerful poetry.You'll learn to write poems that work on more than one level at the same time, poems that create an intense mood or atmosphere, poems that show your readers new ways of looking at the world.Click here for detailsNo matter what your life experiences, you can turn them into a great memoir. This 8-week course will show you how to recreate your memories as vivid scenes and shape them into a successful narrative.Click here for detailsIn this 8-week course, you'll learn how to write great dialogue. Discover how to create a unique voice for each of your characters, achieve the right mix of "showing" and "telling," and use dialogue to improve character development, plotting, pacing, and setting.Click here for detailsThis 8-week e-mail course will show you how to write fiction that builds excitement, curiosity, and suspense. Our most popular course!Click here for detailsIn this 8-week course on narrative viewpoint, you'll learn how to pull readers deep inside your characters and your stories. Discover techniques to make readers feel like they're actually living your stories instead of just reading them. Click here for detailsThis 8-week course will take you step-by-step through the process of writing a successful mystery story or novel. You'll discover techniques that make mystery writing much easier, as you create a vivid story world and a plot full of clues, twists, and surprises.Click here for detailsLearn techniques to help you generate new creative writing ideas and inspiration whenever you need them.This 3-day e-mail course is currently available for free.Sign up hereIn this 8-week course, you'll learn how to develop story ideas into plots and how to structure a successful story from beginning to end. You'll also create a detailed story plan that you can use as a road map for your own stories and novels. Click here for detailsLearn how to create 3-dimensional characters and bring them to life in the reader's imagination.If you can make people care about your characters, they'll care about your stories. This 8-week e-mail course will show you how.Click here for details Essentials of Poetry WritingIn this 8-week course, you'll learn essential techniques for writing powerful poetry.You'll learn to write poems that work on more than one level at the same time, poems that create an intense mood or atmosphere, poems that show your readers new ways of looking at the world.Click here for details Essentials of Memoir WritingNo matter what your life experiences, you can turn them into a great memoir. This 8-week course will show you how to recreate your memories as vivid scenes and shape them into a successful narrative.Click here for details Mastering DialogueIn this 8-week course, you'll learn how to write great dialogue. Discover how to create a unique voice for each of your characters, achieve the right mix of "showing" and "telling," and use dialogue to improve character development, plotting, pacing, and setting.Click here for details Irresistible FictionIn this 8-week course on narrative viewpoint, you'll learn how to pull readers deep inside your characters and your stories. Discover techniques to make readers feel like they're actually living your stories instead of just reading them. Click here for details Mystery WritingThis 8-week course will take you step-by-step through the process of writing a successful mystery story or novel. You'll discover techniques that make mystery writing much easier, as you create a vivid story world and a plot full of clues, twists, and surprises.Click here for details Visitors' Comments "I have searched the web and used different worksheets, but none have come close to your worksheets and descriptions of (what to do and what not to do). Both courses I have taken have with Creative Writing Now have been amazing. Each time I have learned something new. The one thing I love, you take everything apart and give examples."- Katlen Skye "As usual - I already love the course on Irresistible Fiction, rewriting a lot and improving greatly even after the first lesson. Thanks so much for the great courses."- Kitty Safken “Essentials of Fiction proved that I could indeed write and I wrote every day, much to my boyfriend's dismay (waa sniff).”- Jill Gardner "I am loving the course and the peer interaction on the blog is fantastic!!!" - Bill Lane "I'm enjoying the weekly email course, Essentials of Poetry Writing. Thank you for offering a basic, no nonsense basic poetry course at a reasonable price."- Michele "Thank you for all the material in this course. I have learnt so much."- Jacqueline Tasik "I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the lessons and feel they were very helpful in introducing new ideas and perspectives to my writing. I am sure I will go back frequently to review them for reference during many of my future writing projects. Thanks again!"- Jenny Jacks "Thanks very much for this course. It's been really helpful and well-explained. I look forward to any more courses you run."- Robin Gott "I'm learning so much. This course is amazing."- Karl Tobar "Thank you so much!! You're always there... The course is great. You are always looking forward to the next lesson like a good novel!!!"- Nuria Alberti "Thank you for a course that builds writing skills with direction to excellence. Everything was included, possibly more than college courses can offer."- Janett Lee Wawrzyniak "It was a nice journey for me to be able to write in answer to your e-mail lessons. Being able to post the answers on WordPress is exciting. I had not done that before taking your writing class. I plan to take another of your e-mail class, either the 8-week descriptive or the new poetry class."- James Sciullo "The Irresistible Fiction course is going well. I see why it's a bestseller. I can't wait for the next email."- Kayode "Thank you so much for putting together this writing course. It was of good value to me as it got me started thinking more deeply about my characters. I don't have a lot of time to write, working two jobs, but I am doing the ten-minute exercise with each lesson, and each evening, trying to get in the habit of sitting myself down to write... I would recommend the course to anyone."- Barrie Creamer

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