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free writing courses

nickyskye — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:45:49 -0800

10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online.

By: Will Duck

Will Duck — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:07:07 -0800

I'm running out of excuses to release that great novel thats always been inside of me. Nice find, Thanks nickyskye.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:20:55 -0800

This is grate news!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:43:01 -0800

\/\/evs i dont ned this Favrited

By: Skygazer

Skygazer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:44:42 -0800

This is very cool. Thx.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:40 -0800

Dam it, mullingitover! You beet me too it.

By: hurdy gurdy girl

hurdy gurdy girl — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:19:49 -0800

Hey, cool! These are great links. I have often referred students to the Purdue OWL--it is a great resource. And now I can be on the other side of the desk and take some creative writing courses! I'll be passing this link on to aspiring writer friends.

By: hadjiboy

hadjiboy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:34:24 -0800

This is most excellent--thanks nicky!

By: Drexen

Drexen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:51:30 -0800

Awesome. Learning ahoy!

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:40:28 -0800

woot! thanks.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:22:04 -0800

Very nice. With the rise of the Internet we have been exposed to more amateur writing than ever before, as Francine Prose once said, life is too short to read bad writing, most us need help. Even professional writing can be bad, a quote by Lewis Lapham (former editor Harper's Mag) in Lapham's Quarterly (intro):

.over a period of years, I came up with a risk-assessment model wired to the sound of the human voice. If, on first looking through a dispatch from the Yale University library or the White House Situation Room, I couldn't hear the voice of its author, I let it go the way of the Carolina Parakeet. The device operated as a loophole through which I escaped the tax of having to read most of what rolled out of the presses in any given year in one or another of the dead languages designed for television broadcast or the teaching of better business management.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:34:53 -0800

Great post. Thanks!

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:32:34 -0800

your a sain't!!!

By: quin

quin — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:25:40 -0800

So, wait... The order we put words in makes a difference? Shit, I've just been randomly typing stuff for years and hoping it made sense. This is going to make all sorts of difference in the way I express myself. (Though this punk-shoo-a-shun thing. still has me, freaked out?)

By: JD Rucker

JD Rucker — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:38:19 -0800

AT LAST! My opportunity to be an MIT "grad"!!! This will look great on my resume. (First sentence spoken quickly, mumbled, and very quiet, followed by the second sentence, enuncuating the words 'MIT' and 'six-digit salary'. "I almost graduated from ___ ___ High School, nearly finishing with some dubious honors. From there, I attended courses from MIT where I received an official statement of official attendance declaring me absolutely qualified for a six-digit salary."

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:11:36 -0800

Awesome. I've been looking for something like this.