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| Check Out the Latest Courses from WDU! |
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| Advanced Novel Writing | When you take this online workshop, you won't have weekly reading assignments or lectures. Instead, you'll get to focus solely on completing your novel. While it is possible to write a novel in a month, in this workshop you'll spend 15 weeks writing yours-all the while gaining valuable feedback and getting the encouragement you need in order to finish writing your novel.
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| Breaking into Copywriting | Learn how to become a copywriter by building your portfolio and marketing your services through this online workshop. With the explosion of the Internet, the need for creative copywriters who can craft compelling advertising has skyrocketed. And because most companies across all sectors need marketing content, copywriting is a virtually recession-proof career choice.
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| Freelance Writing | No other market is as open to the freelance writer as the magazine market. From trade and association publications, to special interest magazines, to regional and national consumer publications, editors are looking for writers who can deliver well-researched, reader-targeted articles on deadline. In this workshop, you will work with a published article writer to develop, research and write two articles suitable for publication in magazines you've identified as appropriate markets.
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| Copyediting Certification Course | Writer's Digest is proud to offer our Copyediting Certification course. This ten-week workshop will provide training for aspiring copy editors in order to give them practical and marketable workplace skills. As a student in this certification course, you will progress from the fundamentals of grammar, form and composition to advanced copyediting skills.
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| 12 Weeks to a First Draft | Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing workshop you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft. When you take this workshop, you will learn invaluable tips on writing a book and receive detailed instruction through weekly lessons and writing assignments.
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| Fundamentals of Fiction | Have an amazing story idea, but need to learn the basics of how to write a book? This workshop will take you thru all of the basics of writing a fiction novel. Including how important it is to choose a great setting (and how it affects your plot and theme), how to build your characters so that your readers care about them, what point of view you should choose, how to write great dialogue, and more!
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| Writing the Personal Essay 101: Fundamentals | This course guides beginning and intermediate writers through elements of how to write a personal essay, helping them identify values expressed in their stories and to bring readers into the experiences described. Writers learn how to avoid the dreaded responses of "so what?" and "I guess you had to be there" by utilizing sensory details, learning to trust their writing intuitions, and developing a skilled internal editor to help with revision.
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| Pulp Fiction | Ultimately, this course will teach you how to effectively write online articles of all types including news, feature articles, opinion articles, alternative story forms (listicles, charticles, Q&As, and more), and blog postings.This course pays special attention to the most notable form of online article writing: the blog posting. Publications of all types have enlisted the aid of bloggers to help disseminate information.
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| Writing Online Content | Ultimately, this course will teach you how to effectively write online articles of all types including news, feature articles, opinion articles, alternative story forms (listicles, charticles, Q&As, and more), and blog postings.This course pays special attention to the most notable form of online article writing: the blog posting. Publications of all types have enlisted the aid of bloggers to help disseminate information.
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| More Courses from Writers Digest University |
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 |  | | Grammar and Mechanics | Travel Writing | | 7/7 - 8/18 | 7/7 - 8/18 | | | |
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 |  | | Writing the Picture Book | Query Letter in 14 Days | | 7/14 - 8/11 | 7/14 - 7/28 | | | |
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 |  | | Focus on the Short Story | Marketing Your Magazine Articles | | 7/21 - 10/27 | 7/21 - 8/18 | | | |
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 |  | | Form and Composition | Revision & Self Editing | | 7/28 - 8/25 | 7/28 - 9/22 | | | |
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