Free Writing Courses

Learn the art of storytelling from Pulitzer Prize winning author and FSU Eppes Professor Robert Olen Butler as he writes an original short story.

Understanding Creativity and Creative Writing by Prof. Neelima Talwar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

This course applies the principles of Objectivism to the question of how to present ideas effectively. Based on a ten-lecture course given in 1980 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, this course identifies certain principles of intellectual communication and applies them to three areas: writing, speaking and arguing.

ENGL 318R will focus on writing science fiction and fantasy. Course Outcomes Include: Demonstrate effort and discipline in crafting fiction and display a knowledge of its conventions.

In this video workshop, teachers, academics, and authors gather as a “community of readers,” immersing themselves in classic and contemporary literature from Hamlet to works by Langston Hughes, James Dickey, and Alice Walker.