Free Online Writing CoursesOn this page, you have links to CWN's fiction courses. These are complete free online writing courses for total beginners as well as experienced writers. You can use the courses to:
If you aren't interested in an actual course but could use some structure and discipline, you can skip directly to the Goals Worksheet page to set up your personal writing goals and a plan to achieve them. Go to the course: Fiction Writing Course - Class 1: Putting Your Imagination to Work Fiction Writing Course - Class 2: Character Fiction Writing Course - Class 3: Showing Versus Telling Fiction Writing Course - Class 4: Plot Fiction Writing Course - Class 5: Point of View Fiction Writing Course - Class 6: Dialogue Fiction Writing Course - Class 7: Detail Fiction Writing Course - Class 8: Reading and Writing Where did the CWN free online writing courses come from?
How to enroll in the free online writing courses There's no registration form, no application essay, no cost. But that doesn't mean that these aren't real courses. It's funny about free things, how we tend take them less seriously. If it makes you feel better about these courses, you're welcome to send me a check. No complaints from me. But I promise, paying more for a course doesn't mean you'll get more in return. What makes the difference is the effort and commitment you put into it. In fact, the only thing I ask of you in return for this course is to make a real commitment. Before starting, please make up your mind that you're going to keep going. On a similar note, people often don't take creative writing seriously unless you're making money from it. But, again, the money is a separate matter. You're a writer because you decide you're a writer, because you write. Keep your course appointments the same way that you'd show up on time (hopefully) for a paying job. Schedule them at times when you're unlikely to have interruptions. And be prepared that other people might not understand. They know that you have to go to your job selling widgets or serving lattes or processing widget-and-latte reports, but they are likely to see your writing as a hobby on par with watching TV. So plan a strategy to protect your schedule. When someone suggests meeting for a coffee or asks you to run an errand, you can just say, "I have a class," or "I have an appointment." Sometimes it's easier not to get into details. Remember, stuff always comes up. If it's not one thing, it will be something else. There are always good reasons not to do something. But "I don't have time," is never the whole truth. Everyone has the same amount of time in the day, exactly 24 hours. There are various things competing for our time; we choose the ones at the top of our priority list and say "I don't have time" for the others. If you want to be a writer, put writing high up on your list. How the free online writing courses work In each class session, you will:
Go to: Fiction Writing Course - Class 1: Putting Your Imagination to Work Fiction Writing Course - Class 2: Character Fiction Writing Course - Class 3: Showing Versus Telling Fiction Writing Course - Class 4: Plot Fiction Writing Course - Class 5: Point of View Fiction Writing Course - Class 6: Dialogue Fiction Writing Course - Class 7: Detail Fiction Writing Course - Class 8: Reading and Writing Final Project
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