Many of us fear writing about people who are different from ourselves, afraid that it’s too hard or that, worse, we’ll get it “wrong,” but accepting the challenge can ...

Life includes a lot of experiences that we’d rather not (and often don’t) talk about. But if our novels and short stories are to reflect the real world’s beauty, uglines...

Scrivener is an invaluable piece of software for writing and organizing a book-length project—when you know how to use it. Developed by writers for writers, it does so much,...

Need some hands-on help with Scrivener? Whether you just need some questions answered or need your entire manuscript imported and broken into chapters or scenes, this lab is f...

Whether you sold a nonfiction book for a fat advance or self-published a memoir, your job as a new author is to sell books. In this course, you’ll learn how to create a publ...

Are you the doorway through which your unconscious wants to birth new stories, stories that are for you alone or for others? In this workshop we’ll use images and found word...

As writers, we know our words have power, but have you ever thought about how that power might accrue from the force of each individual letter? In this class, we’ll look at ...

There are more than a hundred million blogs in the universe, and maybe as many reasons for creating one. What are yours? And how can you make the best use of this platform to ...

We often turn to reviews with a bottom-line attitude: thumbs-up or thumbs-down? In this course, we’ll consider that the purpose of a review is more to stimulate curiosity an...

Writing is craftwork: draft once, revise many times. Hemingway even said, “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” Can you learn to love revising as much as you love draft...