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Write Short Stories for Children
Course No: 2371
Course ID: child stories
Cost: $15.00
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Instructor: Margaret Shauers
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Course Description: This course is designed for those who wish to write short stories for children. It will lead the student through the basics of this art form into the specifics of characterization, age groups, plotting and outlining, drafting a story for children, rewriting and polishing the work. Final lessons will cover manuscript preparation and marketing strategies. Personal instructor feedback & critique. The goal of this course is increasing student chance for publication. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Creative Writing I
Course No: 6249
Course ID: creativewriting1
Cost: $19.00
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Instructor: Dezra Lehr-Guthrie
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Course Description: Creative Writing I is a course designed to put you in touch with your creative abilities, free your expression and have fun flowing with your writing. Creative Writing I is the first in a series of three courses, designed to introduce three levels and spectrums of development for the beginner to advanced student. It contains five lessons: Introduction to Creative Writing I, Developing Creative Awareness, Following Your Creative Muse, Opening Your Pandora's Box, and Filling the White Page Canvas. It is chocked full of creative writing exercises and quizzes that will get your creative juices flowing. It is great for college writing, high school, ESL, homeschoolers, or senior students looking to develop, explore or just trying to relax and have fun with their creative expression. This course is taught by a college writing instructor, creative writing workshop facilitator and published author. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Creative Writing II
Course No: 6250
Course ID: creativewriting2
Cost: $18.00
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Instructor: Dezra Lehr-Guthrie
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Course Description: Creative Writing II focuses on taking you on a journey to explore your writing style and writing possibilities. It first explores the nine writing styles of narration, description, process, compare and contrast, cause and effect, classification and division, definition, examples and persuasion-argument. You are taken through a collage of writing experiences that apply these styles. Next, you will move into experimenting with both non-fiction and fiction writing divisions. You will be taught how to write stark and powerful in your non-fiction and how to master the art of exaggeration and unreality stages in your fiction. Finally, you will go on an exciting ride through the most popular genres in both fiction and non-fiction: autobiographical writing, mystery, horror, conspiracy, new age, inspirational, fantasy, science fiction, romance and more! This course is taught by a college instructor, creative writing instructor and published author. It is the second course in a dynamic three-course series. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Creative Writing Community Workshop
Course No: 3396
Course ID: 3233
Cost: $16.00 - Limited Time Offer: Enroll today for only $13.00 - You Save $3.00 (19%)!
Review: Approved
Instructors: Ginny Alexander
Stacy Taylor

Awards: Online Mentor Award
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Course Description: To write creative fiction, we need only characters, a place to start, and a direction to move in. This creative writing course will provide opportunities for brainstorming these areas, as well as habituating the writer within to everyday practice. If you're rusty, or new to writing, you'll enjoy the refresher lessons on characters, point of view, and conflict. We will focus on short stories, or a chapter at a time of longer pieces in order to receive more in-depth critiques and intensive constructive criticism. This is your place; a community that will accept you, read your work, and offer honest feedback and suggestions for improvement. There are three student forums with specific purposes geared toward bettering you as a writer. Let your creativity shine through as we discuss brainstorming, story starters, exercises, and the general business of creative fiction, and creative non-fiction (a fast rising genre that we all can contribute to). Click Here to Enroll Now!

Introduction to Creative Fiction
Course No: 3323
Course ID: fiction1
Cost: $35.00 - Limited Time Offer: Enroll today for only $30.00 - You Save $5.00 (14%)!
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Instructor: Heather Long
Awards: Online Mentor Award
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Course Description: Writing creative fiction is like taking a journey to another world without the threat of disease or needing to get a shot. Designed for the experienced writer who wants to brush up their skills or the beginner who knows they want to write, but isn't sure where to start. Delving into characters, plots, settings and points of view, the student will be put through a battery of exercises to help them flex their writing muscles. This course will also offer insight into three genres, romance, science fiction and mysteries. By the completion of the course, the student will have developed at least one complete short story. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Advanced Creative Fiction
Course No: 3383
Course ID: fiction2
Cost: $30.00 - Limited Time Offer: Enroll today for only $25.00 - You Save $5.00 (17%)!
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Instructor: Heather Long
Awards: Online Mentor Award
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Course Description: Advanced Creative Fiction will work with writers on how to approach unpleasant characters, sex, religion and conflict in fiction. As the student accomplishes each lesson, they will begin combining these elements into a short story. This course will review basic skills, but move into more advanced story building, using ideas from an initial brainstorming session to ultimately complete the course with a short story that should be ready for marketing. The instructor will work hand in hand with the students as well as assign groups for the students to work within. This course is designed for a writer who has completed Introduction to Creative Fiction or is already comfortable with writing fiction and is trying to hone their skills. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Children's Fiction: In-Depth Plotting
Course No: 3499
Course ID: shauers2
Cost: $35.00
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Instructor: Margaret Shauers
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Course Description: Plot designs are not something 'set-in-stone' by magazine editors (or teachers of Creative Writing courses). Just as an architect uses blueprints, so do writers of short stories for children. No one buys a house if the architect does not know how to design blueprints. Short story plots are the the children's fiction writer's blueprints. Four basic 'blueprints' will be covered in this class: the Incidental plot, the 'did-it -by-myself, the wishful thought fulfilled, and the turn-around story. From these, students will write from four to five stories. Each story will be individually critiqued by the instructor. Rewriting assistance and feedback will be given. The end focus will be marketing the finished manuscripts for paid publication. This course is designed for authors with some experience at writing, particularly in the area or short stories for children. It will concern plotting, writing, rewriting and actively marketing four different types of children's stories. If you haven't completed 'Writing Short Short Stories for Children,' please email the instructor at mshauers@kscable.com for information on qualifications for this class. Click Here to Enroll Now!

7 Steps to Writing Your First Novel
Course No: 5172
Course ID: Basicnovelwriting
Cost: First Day Free
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Instructor: Suzanne James
Awards: Millennium Educator Award
Total Students: 44
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Course Description: Do you think it would be fun to write a novel? Have you been working on one for years and can’t seem to finish it, or do you start lots of manuscripts only to file them as another great idea comes to mind? Have you written, or edited and feel you want to tackle a novel? Then this course is for you. Most ‘Novel Writing’ courses are designed to write a ‘marketable’ novel. This course is created to help the beginner get from page one to the end. If you follow the guidelines, you can finish in a year, even with kids and a full time job. If writing courses intimidate you, or they are written ‘over your head’. If you are nervous enrolling in a class with published authors, then this is the place to start. Don't feel shy, everyone here is a beginner. Explore this craft, improve your creative writing skills, and finish your first novel. The goal is to have fun, and the writing expectations are geared to new authors. When complete you will have enough confidence to tackle any creative writing course, or novel writing workshop, and confidently finish your first novel. Click Here to Enroll Now!

How to Write and Edit a Novel
Course No: 3116
Course ID: novel
Cost: $20.00
Review: Approved
Instructor: Suzanne James
Awards: Millennium Educator Award
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Course Description: I watch new writers become published authors every day. Helping you write a marketable novel is the main focus of this course, but I also believe it is important to enjoy the journey. Each step is taught in typical workshop fashion, removing the confusion associated with most novel writing courses. Self-paced, and teacher assisted, these 20 lessons will help you write a novel that stands out, grabs the editor’s attention, and gets published. A new writer will learn how to turn an idea into chapters. Experienced authors will improve their creative writing skills, and learn what editors are looking for in popular fiction novels. Class participation is important, but you do not need to post weekly. I mark most assignments within a day, and give examples of my comments when possible. All students are encouraged to post their own work. I work as a professional editor, and will help polish assignments, but I will not give a professional critique or edit as part of this course. Students who rewrite will receive a Certificate of Merit to indicate their enthusiasm and commitment. I also issue certificates and letters of recommendation to students who excel. This tells editors they are willing to do what it takes to become a published author. If you put two hours a week into this course, you should finish in four months. If you feel this course is too demanding at this time you might want to review my course, “7 Steps to Writing Your First Novel.” Click Here to Enroll Now!

Online Classes in Writing Styles

Poetry 201: Digging Deeper into the Poetic Toolbox
Course No: 4765
Course ID: Poetry201
Cost: $15.00
Review: Approved
Instructor: Scott Wiggerman
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Course Description: 'Poetry 201: Digging Deeper into the Poetic Toolbox' is a continuation of 'Poetry 101: The Way We Word,' though you needn't have taken the first course to take this one. While 'Poetry 101' looked at the general tools of poetry--imagery, metaphor, sound, rhythm, rhyme, and form--,'Poetry 201' builds on these tools, but delves deeper into the specifics of line breaks, stanzas, voice/persona, phrasing, and revision. Designed for the beginning to intermediate poet, the five lessons of 'Poetry 201' focus on ways of enhancing one's own poetic output--and the quality of that output--through both the lessons and an interactive workshop environment. Lesson by lesson, through definitions, explanations, and examples, you will apply what you've learned to poems of your own creation through assignments. These original poems will be posted and 'work shopped,' meaning not only will you write poems, but you will comment on others' poems. Similarly, you will receive feedback from others on your own poems. Occasional online chats are also a part of this course. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Poetry 101: The Way We Word
Course No: 4129
Course ID: poetry101
Cost: $15.00
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Instructor: Scott Wiggerman
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Course Description: An introduction to the tools of poetry: imagery, metaphor, sound, rhythm, rhyme, and form. By the end of the course, students should have a clear understanding of what makes a poem a poem, as well as a handful of new poems that they have written. Through a series of six lessons, we will hit upon the essential tools for creating a poem: imagery, metaphor, sound, rhythm, rhyme, and form. Each lesson expands upon the previous lesson to show the interconnectivity of these essential tools, but each one also looks at the tool in and of itself. In the process, we will look at how these tools are used in various poems, by means of definitions, explanations, and examples. The focus is not on poetic terms, but on processes; while designed for the beginning poet, the course would also be a good brush-up for intermediate and even advanced poets. Lesson by lesson, you will then apply these tools to poems of your own creation through assignments. So that we can all learn from each other, these original poems will be posted and work shopped, meaning not only will you write poems, but you will comment on others' poems. Similarly, you will receive feedback from others on your own poems. Think of the workshop aspect as one of constructive criticism, a means of creative revision, of growing as a poet. Click Here to Enroll Now!

Getting Children Excited About Poetry Writing
Course No: 3456
Course ID: kvaale
Cost: $10.00
Review: Approved
Instructor: Judy Kvaale
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Course Description: Getting Children Excited About Poetry Writing is a course designed for anyone who wants to get children enthusiastic about writing poetry. This course provides teachers, parents and home schooling parents with numerous approaches and ideas for poetry writing at the elementary level. An important element of teaching poetry at this level is to be equipped with a variety of ideas and examples. This course supplies the participant with a large assortment of poetry writing ideas that children will enjoy. Some of the poetry patterns presented in this course are cinquians, haiku, diamontes, quinzaines, terquians and autobiographical poems. By the end of the course the participants will have developed a portfolio of many types of poems, review numerous lessons, collect great ideas to use in the classroom, learn and write various forms of poetry, discover the many ways poetry can be shared, explore poetry books and learn how poetry can be used across the curriculum. Are you ready for some poetry fun? Click Here to Enroll Now!