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November 6 - January 15, 2026 |
| NEW: The Hero's Journey for Storytellers With Gloria Kempton For me, as a storyteller, the word, 'hero', is like the word 'home' --we all want to go home. We all want to be at home. We all want to be the hero. We all want the traits that a hero has. To be a hero is to be a believer in our own amazing potential, to be courageous in pursuing our life’s adventure, and to be sacrificial in our relationships with ourselves and others. It's to decrease our emphasis on the fighting and aggressive warrior archetype that we all seem to understand way too well and begin to live in the transformative and miraculous power of the magician archetype. To be a hero is to be at home in our own lives. |
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November 6 - December 16, 2025 |
| Writing and Revising Your Picture Book: From Concept to Polished Project With Danielle Davis An online course for picture book writers. Whether you’ve got an idea or a draft, this 6-week class will give you the tools you need to proceed from where you are with your project to where you want to go! This series will give you vital tools to write, revise, understand the “why,” “how,” and “what” of your story and develop a plan for next steps. You can expect video lectures with content as slides, published examples, and activities tailored to support your specific project as well as you as a writer. |
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November 6 - January 29, 2026 |
| Build Your Novel Scene by Scene With Mark Spencer If you want to learn how to write a story, but aren’t quite ready yet to hunker down and write 10,000 words or so a week, this is the course for you. Build Your Novel Scene by Scene will offer you the impetus, the guidance, the support, and the deadline you need to finally stop talking, start writing, and, ultimately, complete that novel you always said you wanted to write. We'll walk through the entire novel-writing process together, from day one to a completed draft. To begin, we'll think about whether or not your novel concept can sustain 200+ pages. We’ll spend time doing the important work of outlining and assessing the narrative arc of your story. We’ll think more deeply about your characters, their desires, and their motivations. Then, the bulk of these next few weeks will be spent writing your novel scene by scene by scene. |
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November 6 - January 29, 2026 |
| 12 Weeks to a First Draft With John DeChancie Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing course you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft. Our goal is to help you finish either a decently developed half draft (of half of your novel) or a rough “in-progress" full draft. However, you'll learn all the tools needed to complete the full first draft. At the end of this course, you will have accomplished every writer's goal—an “in-progress" working first draft. |
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November 6 - January 29, 2026 |
| Getting Started in Writing
With Estelle Erasmus Have you always wanted to be a writer? Don't let doubt or fear get the best of you—take a chance and learn how to start writing a book, novel, short story, memoir, or essay.
When you take this online writing course, you'll discover your voice, learn the basics of grammar and examine the different types of writing. No matter what type of writing you're planning on crafting—nonfiction or fiction—you'll need guidance along the way.
During this course, you can expect to take an in-depth look at Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published by Estelle Erasmus. Draw upon advice from published authors and start your writing career today. |
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November 6 - December 18, 2025 |
| Fearless Writing
With William Kenower If you love to write and have a story you want to tell, the only thing that can stand between you and the success you’re seeking isn’t craft, or a good agent, or enough Facebook friends and Twitter followers, but fear. Fear that you aren’t good enough, or fear the market is too crowded, or fear no one wants to hear from you. Fortunately, you can’t write while being in the flow and be afraid simultaneously. The question is whether you will write fearlessly.
In this workshop we’ll look at several techniques you can you use to keep yourself in the creative flow and out of the trouble and misery fear always causes. |
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November 6 - December 4, 2025 |
| Research for Writers
With Sharon Short Research matters for any prose writing project, in any genre. Ignoring it can imperil your project’s viability and believability. Yet being heavy-handed with research results can sink even the most fascinating project. In this online writing course, you will learn how to manage your research time and effort, and even become comfortable with it. You’ll learn how to find resources, streamline the process, and organize results. Most importantly for your project’s success, you’ll learn how to seamlessly weave together research and writing to enhance your project as well as enlighten and fascinate your readers, including agents and editors. |
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November 6 - November 27, 2025 |
| 21 Days to Your Screenplay Treatment
With Bryan Young Not only is a treatment a vital selling tool for screenwriters, the process of writing a treatment can help screenwriters lay a solid foundation for their screenplay that can save valuable time in the writing process. This is your chance to map out your plot and develop your characters before you’ve backed yourself into a corner with ninety pages of blood, sweat, and tears behind you. Let Script University show you, step-by-step, how to create an electrifying treatment! We’ve made the anxiety-producing process of treatment writing simple with our ground-breaking approach to the form. By the end of this workshop, you will have a strong treatment and a solid log line for your screenplay that has been vetted by an industry professional. |
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November 6 - November 13, 2025 |
| The Nitty Gritty of Spec Scripts: Writing Strong Action and Dialogue
With Dave Trottier This one-week intensive course focuses on the specifics of writing compelling action (description) and dialogue. At the end of this course, your expert instructor, Dave Trottier, will evaluate five pages of your spec script. Who is the real audience for your spec script, and what are they looking for? Craft a riveting, engaging spec that can open doors to your success. In this course, you will get an inside view of how to write action and dialogue that captures the imagination and emotions of those who can make a difference. Examples will be provided. Your instructor, Dave Trottier, is a produced screenwriter who has helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business. He is in-demand script consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of The Screenwriter’s Bible (now in its sixth edition), and host of keepwriting.com. |
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