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What Is Included
✔️Weekly Self-Paced Lessons
Each week, students receive instruction and writing prompts focused on a different element of creative writing: voice, character, setting, dialogue, tone, genre, and more.
✔️Creative and Low-Pressure Writing Activities
Assignments are designed to encourage personal expression and help students find their writing voice. Expect imaginative exercises that keep things fresh and build confidence without essays, tests, or pressure.
✔️Live Writing Classes
Biweekly live sessions for real-time instruction, community, and sharing. These offer gentle guidance, peer inspiration, and lots of encouragement—no red pens, no pressure.
For the best experience, we recommend attending live, but don’t worry if you need to miss one. Each session is recorded and posted for later viewing.
✔️Feedback and Encouragement
Students can submit their work in the course and receive personal notes of encouragement and supportive critique. This is a safe space to share writing—no judgment, just growth.
✔️Course Credit
Students who complete the course can count it as a semester of high school writing credit.
Freewriting
In this course, we use Freewriting to jumpstart the critical thinking process and get words flowing. Our goal with the writing projects is to help your student find their writing voice. Freewriting is an excellent tool you can learn more about in the article below.
The Freewriting Rules That Will Inspire A Reluctant Writer
'How did you get him to write? He never writes for me at home.' This and a few other questions and comments similar to it were directed at me at our last enrichment classes. At first, I demurred because that's what we Southerners do. Then I realized they were serious.
The Credit
This course is the equivalent of a semester of a high school writing course. We recommend allocating a semester of literature credit. You can combine this with our other literature courses for a full year of language arts credit.
The Certificate
Once the student has completed the course, they will receive a certificate. You may print this out for your records.
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