Online Creative Writing Courses, Ideas, and Inspiration
Welcome to CWN, where you'll find creative writing courses, ideas, prompts, free online classes, and step-by-step guides to writing fiction, poetry, and drama.CWN was created by writing teachers as a free service to provide a supportive and friendly place for authors and poets at all stages in their writing lives.
Free Fiction Writing Course: ENDLESS STORY IDEAS
This free 3-day online writing course will show you techniques to find new creative writing ideas whenever you need them.
Need some motivation to get started? Here are five good reasons to write:
Write...
1) to express yourself.
Share the best of yourself. Cut through the small talk and the chatter to what's important; express the secret feelings and perceptions that don't fit into polite conversation. Show your personal vision of the world, which is unique.2) to entertain yourself.
Writing is a challenge, an adventure. When you're in the thick of it, you can feel thoroughly absorbed. Write to add color, excitement, and meaning to your days.3) to keep yourself company.
You never have to feel lonely as long as you can write. Writing is a conversation -- with yourself, with your future reader, with the books that have inspired you. You can also create characters who come alive in your imagination.4) to live other lives.
In real life, there are limits. In your writing, you can be anyone or anything. You can try on different lives, become a different person for a while, transport yourself to another place or time.5) to touch other people.
Offer your writing as a gift to others. Your writing can move people, make them feel intense emotions, keep them up all night passionately turning pages. You can create characters to keep them company. You can make their lives richer and more beautiful.Getting started
Use the menu on the left to find exactly what you need for your writing; including:- hundreds of writing ideas, story starters, and poetry prompts
- step-by-step guides on how to write a story, poem, novel, and more.
- free downloadable tools, including story planning worksheets and character profiling questionnaires.
- tips and techniques to make your writing more powerful, hold your readers’ attention, and take their breath away.
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"I have search 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."
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Online Creative Writing Courses
*FREE*: Endless Story IdeasLearn 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 |
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Essentials of Fiction WritingThis 7-week e-mail course covers all the essential elements of fiction writing.Learn how to give readers that wonderful "lost in a book" feeling, create characters that feel real and to develop plots your readers will care about. Click here for details |
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Irresistible FictionMake your stories impossible to put down.This 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 details |
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Story StructureIn 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 details |
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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 |
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Description Writing SecretsLearn how to make your fiction more vivid and real.This 8-week e-mail course will show you description-writing techniques to improve almost every aspect of a story, from character and plot to setting and mood. Click here for details |
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"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."
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