Online Creative Writing Adventures eLearning - Training Resources

Writing Your Life Story Record the events and people of your life. This course is designed to help the beginning writer to combine facts, any records (pertinent for sharing, and recording) and memories together in a fashion that is both enjoyable and easy to read.  more...

Writing Great Copy for Magazines During this course, students explore various aspects of writing for magazines. Students explore various aspects of, and techniques needed to write for magazines. During the course, students will also identify their key interests and how they can focus those interests into marketable pieces of writing.  more...

Short Story Secrets Designed for the writer who wants to move beyond a first draft. The short story form is making a come back, and is the best way to break into the world of publishing. This short story workshop is designed for the writer who has already begun writing stories and wants to move beyond a first draft. Once your idea is on paper, what is the next phase in the creative process? Structure, development,  more...

Revive Your Writing! Bring your tired sentences, your terminally ill passive verbs, and your ailing descriptors. Bring your tired sentences, your terminally ill passive verbs, and your ailing descriptors. Through this course, we`ll work on reviving your writing! We`ll use adjective adrenaline to pump up your text. Take a dose of verb vaccine and watch them spring to life. At the end of this course, your sentences  more...

Poetry Writing For Dreamers and Non-Dreamers One-on-one mentorship. This course teaches the craft of poetry writing resulting in publication and ISBN(see full description). This course focuses on the art of poetry on two levels, one as a craft and one as a concept. Basic structure and form are taught along with the encouragement to use only those formats supporting the poet`s vision and intent. Students will work on a one-to-one mentoring  more...

Poetry For Profit and Play This course is designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. This course is primarily designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. Students learn basic forms of poetry such as: metrical, sonnet, rhyme, haiku and free verse. They are then given exercises designed to help them learn the various forms. Each student hands in samples of their work and  more...

Learn to Be Your Own Editor This course helps students learn basic editing techniques. Through this course, students explore basic editing techniques. These techiques can be used to edit their own work or as a starting point for potential editing employment.  more...

Just Write! Keeping a Journal It`s never too late.Get started recording your life. This course provides opportunities for participants to grow through regular journal writing. Identify and develop your personal journal style. Keep a record of your life. Learn skills that produce a rewarding journaling experience. The class provides a varied assortment of resources and strategies that will enrich your journal. Participants  more...

How to Get an Accent in a Month: A Brief Study of Southern Literature This course examines characters, scenes and plots involved with Southern regional literature. This course examines different forms of Southern literature: the characters, scenes and plots involved with this type of regional literature. By examining short stories by several different Southern authors, students will gain appreciation of this style of writing, learn how to recognize key style  more...

How to Write Your Life Story Bring memories and facts of the past together for current and future generations This program is designed with helping the beginning writer to aptly combine the facts, any records (pertinent for sharing, recording) and memories together in a fashion that is both enjoyable and easy to read. Emphasis of this course is to write with clarity, continuity and in a manner that bring the events and  more...

How to Write Short, Short Fiction This course explores writing short fiction pieces. During this course, students explore different aspects of short fiction and also sources for publication.  more...

How to Write a Good Mystery Writing the mystery novel. This course is designed to acquaint writers with the elements that make a good mystery. This course is designed to acquaint writers with the elements that make a good mystery.  more...

How to Beat Writers Block A program for the beginning and "blocked" writer who needs a jump-start. Through journal exercises, freefalling, modelling and "stream of consciousness" work, the writer learns to abandon the structures which have restrained their talent, and take on the craft from a whole new perspective.  more...

From Beans to Brew: Creating Characters This course explores how to create believable and lifelike characters. Explore character development from birth to death. This course explores how to create believable and lifelike characters. Students will utilize hands-on techniques to explore their own lives and the lives of those around them for inspiration and details. Armed with these ideas, students will then create new characters or add  more...

Getting More From Books: Intro to Literary Analysis This course makes reading more fun and more meaningful by teaching basic literary analysis. It`s easy to skim through a novel -- but getting involved in the book can teach you more about yourself, your world, and the human experience! Whether you like dense novels or "just for fun" fiction, this course will help you get more out of the books you read. All it takes is a curious mind. You`ll learn  more...

Enter the Net--Writing for Online Media Write for online publications! This course involves internet research and submission to online publications. This course will help you determine your interests, how to write articles, fiction, or poetry for the online media, write the actual submission, and submit that to a researched publication.  more...

Discover the Benefits of Self-Publishing! If you are considering self-publishing your book, this course will provide you with a systematic approach for accomplishing that task. You will learn how to format your manuscript so that it is ready for the printers; how to register your copyright, get your ISBN number, Library of Congress Number, and EAN; identify binding and paper options, and how to market your book and sell it. Course  more...

Beat Writer`s Block with Journaling A program for the beginning and "blocked" writer who needs a jump-start. Through journal exercises, freefalling, modeling and "stream of consciousness" work, the writer learns to abandon the structures which have restrained their talent, and take on the craft from a whole new perspective.  more...