Barnes & Noble University
As the Ed2Go.com writing class ended one of the students posted about a FREE series of writing classes at Barnes & Noble University. I zipped right over there and found out they had quite a selection of classes. I signed up for "Writing Science Fiction with Gotham Writer's Workshop" and the class started this past Monday.
They also offer "Writing Poetry with Writer's Digest Books" and "Writing Fiction with Gotham Writer's Workshop". The course list I looked at a week ago also offered a Mystery Writing Class but I don;t see that on the list now so I'm not sure what happened to it...it's a mystery. :-) All the classes are FREE but you do need to buy a couple of course books.
The course is four weeks long, has eight lessons, and is self directed so you can work on any of the eight lessons at any time during the class. There probably a hundred people in the class judging from the "Introductions" section and even though I posted two writing asignments already, I have yet to get any feedback from the class or from the instructor. I guess it's still early in the course so we'll see if that improves. Reading the message boards in class, however, is very informative and the lessons and reading assignments are instructive as well. I'll post my assignment here as before.
One thing I noticed from reading the message boards in class is that many people seem to be taking the class for the second, third, or even fourth time. Hey, since the only cost is the two course books, why not take the free class over and over again if ithelps refine your writing?
I'm taking another creative writing class at Ed2Go starting on June 21st so I'll have a week of overlap in the classes...that ought to keep me busy, huh? :-)
They also offer "Writing Poetry with Writer's Digest Books" and "Writing Fiction with Gotham Writer's Workshop". The course list I looked at a week ago also offered a Mystery Writing Class but I don;t see that on the list now so I'm not sure what happened to it...it's a mystery. :-) All the classes are FREE but you do need to buy a couple of course books.
The course is four weeks long, has eight lessons, and is self directed so you can work on any of the eight lessons at any time during the class. There probably a hundred people in the class judging from the "Introductions" section and even though I posted two writing asignments already, I have yet to get any feedback from the class or from the instructor. I guess it's still early in the course so we'll see if that improves. Reading the message boards in class, however, is very informative and the lessons and reading assignments are instructive as well. I'll post my assignment here as before.
One thing I noticed from reading the message boards in class is that many people seem to be taking the class for the second, third, or even fourth time. Hey, since the only cost is the two course books, why not take the free class over and over again if ithelps refine your writing?
I'm taking another creative writing class at Ed2Go starting on June 21st so I'll have a week of overlap in the classes...that ought to keep me busy, huh? :-)
posted by WDavid | 6/08/2006 05:24:00 AM
2 Comments:
I see I have alot of your writing to catch up on. Have been gone all week. Will be gone all weekend at John & Amy's. Will try to get to it as soon as I can.
I don't know how any of you come up with all the stuff you do to write about!!
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