Creative Writing Classes and Free Online Writing Courses

Below are the creative writing classes and free online writing courses that we are currently offering.

Free Writing Courses

*FREE!*Endless Story Ideas

  • Course description: In this course, you'll generate lots of story ideas that you can develop in the weeks and months ahead. Most importantly, you'll learn how to generate new writing ideas whenever you need them.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per day for three days.
  • Cost: free
  • Registration: Fill out the form below to join the course.

More Creative Writing Classes


Essentials of Fiction Writing

  • Course description: An e-mail course that covers the essential techniques of fiction writing, including character development, plotting, narrative viewpoint, dialogue, and description. You'll follow a series of simple exercises to create characters that come alive and build plots that your readers will care about.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per week by e-mail for seven weeks.
  • Registration: Click here for more details.

Essentials of Poetry Writing

  • Course description: Learn how to write powerful poems. This course covers essential aspects of poetry writing, from developing an idea to using sound, rhythm, and imagery to create an intense atmosphere or mood.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per week by e-mail for eight weeks.
  • Registration: Click here for more details.

Story Structure

  • Course description: This course will show you how to develop story plots and how to structure the beginning, middle, and ending of a story or novel. At the end of the course, you'll create a detailed story plan that you can use for your own fiction writing.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per week by e-mail for eight weeks.
  • Registration: Click here for more details.

Irresistible Fiction

  • Course description: Make your fiction impossible to put down. This course will show you a range of techniques to hook your readers and build curiosity, tension, suspense, and excitement.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per week by e-mail for eight weeks.
  • Registration: Click here for more details.

Bringing Characters to Life

  • Course description: This course will show you the secrets of developing interesting and believable characters. Discover how you can express your characters through their habits, tastes, routines, speech, actions, and relationships. Learn how to show a characters' motivations, thoughts, and feelings, and how to make your characters evolve and change during the course of a story.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per week by e-mail for eight weeks.
  • Registration: Click here for more details.

Description Writing Secrets

  • Course description: Learn how to make your fiction feel three-dimensional and real. This course will show you description-writing techniques to improve almost every aspect of your fiction, from character and setting, to pacing and mood.
  • Format: This course is conducted by e-mail. Students receive one lesson per week by e-mail for eight weeks.
  • Registration: Click here for more details.

Upcoming Creative Writing Courses

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Feedback on Our Courses

"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

"I am loving the course and the peer interaction on the blog is fantastic!!!
- Bill Lane

"Thank you for all the material in this course. I have learnt so much."
- Jacqueline Tasik

“Essentials of Fiction proved that I could indeed write and I wrote every day, much to my boyfriend's dismay (waa sniff).”
- Jill Gairdner

"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 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

"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

"I love your Irresistible Fiction writing course so far! I cannot wait to get more!"
- Dawn

"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