Our Online Self-Paced Course
Are you interested in the nuts and bolts of writing? Do you want to learn ways to boost confidence or to create a distraction-free environment? Are you curious about writing communities, workshopping, how and where to publish?
The Writer’s Welcome Kit provides the perfect entry point for your writing. You’ll find practical direction and guidance as well as a solid foundation to work from as you commit to your writing practice. Writers of all genres and backgrounds have used the kit to elevate their writing and professionalize their writing lives.
Course Content
Online Coursebook
Chapters include: How to Start, Your Writing Practice, Your Writer’s Craft, Your Writing Business, and Your Writing Life. Look out for pages in the online coursebook about The Writing Salon’s classes, services, and resources that will suit you best as you dive deeper into your writing.
Exclusive Interviews
Receive guidance and advice from New York Times best-selling and award-winning authors such as Jess Walter, Claire Dederer, and Jane Wong.
Templates
User-friendly templates for editing stories, creating complex characters, and tracking story submissions mimic the documents professional writers develop over the course of their careers.
Writing Prompts
The prompts are provocative enough to get you writing yet general enough to be reusable. Use them to guide your freewriting sessions and to write in characters’ voices.