NewsflashWe are finally live in our new community. www.writersonlinecourses.com is our first 100% public community. All authors can upload their book review, articles, links, and take part in the forums. This site is not a 'sale's site' for the online school, but a real interactive community for novel writers.Our community is found at www.inspiredauthor.com"www.inspiredauthor.comBoth sites are part of the school.
www.inspiredauthor.com"www.inspiredauthor.com contains thousands of articles to help writers. It sponsors a free chat on Friday nights (7 eastern/New York time). You do not need to register, all you need to do is enter a username and you are in. This chat is open to all writers, and is a serious discussion on the different aspects of novel writing. (Authors, you are free to host a chat if you want to promote your work, and talk about the writing industry)
Membership is not needed to attend the chats. Feel free to join, even book lovers who are not writing a book can attend.
The Internet is full of writing course. However, those offered at writersonlinecourses.com are a little different. Instead of learning the theory behind writing a novel, follow one published author as she 'writes her novel.' Writers who need a life coach to help you succeed and learn the skills needed to be a career writer can find a lifecoaching course, as well as a monthly mentoring group.
Instructors are all:
- published, career writers
- certified, or working toward certification (non writing courses)
- have received 'higher training' in the courses they are teaching.
- trained as online instructors.
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Most Popular Courses
How to Write a Novel: Novel Walk Through Walk through the construction of a complete novel, from pre planning to first draft. This 10 week 'novel walk through' is more of a mentoring course and includes a Sat afternoon online lecture/chat. This course is ending Dec 15. However, students who want to go through the course and see that a novel was written within a few weeks, and how it was done, are free to do so for $20. This will start Dec 20. Students will be able to contact the instructor and discuss aspects of the course.
Life Coaching For Writers & Reach Your Goals in 12 Months
Instructor has passed her life coaching training, and is working toward certification. She is a published author who wants to reduce the time needed to succeed. This course is broken up by month, so writers can stay for as little, or as long, as they feel necessary.
How to Write and Edit a Novel
This course has received major Internet exposure at any school it was posted at. A full, one year course, it is the equivelant of a 5 month, non-credit, university course in fiction writing.
Writersonlinecourses is the first place to offer this course as a 'non-independent' study course. Students will be allowed to work at their own pace, taking up to two years to finish the course. However, they may also join the mentoring group, and receive 1:1 help with their own novel.
Novel Structure & Content Editing
This course is for writrs who want to learn how to create a blueprint of a novel from today's bestsellers. It is also for writers who have finished their novel and want to find plot and pacing problems, flaws in the character growth arc, or how to increase tension and suspense in a novel.
Whether you pre plan or you write & gut this course will help you turn a first draft into a marketable novel, and prepare it for the polishing stage.
Who I'd like to meet:
We would like to meet anyone, at any level of their writing career. Writers who would like a private community to hold a book club can request one from Admin.
Writers Online Courses
While our new school platform is only a few months old, the writers at this school have many books, and many years behind them. We have some tips to offer new writers.
Join a Group We have joined many writer's groups at Myspace. If you can't find a group to join, then take a look at our group list and joine of of those.
Write Every Day While this is 'old news,' it usually takes writers several years to understand the importance of writing every day.
Join a Critique Group This is important. Of course, joining a crit group of unpublished authors may sound like 'the blind leading the blind,' but having other people's opinions can shorten the learning curve. www.writersonlinecourses.com/Forum/
Take Courses Of course, you knew this one was coming. This is good and bad news. The good news is, you do not need a university degree to become a fiction writer. The bad news is that you need to learn how to write 'your' story, in a way the publisher can sell it.
Free FORUM Our forum has a critique group where writers can critique their own work - free, or choose a published author to critique their work - $15. Visit Free Forum
