Online Creative Writing Classes @ the Basement Writing Workshop
Welcome to the basement, where you can take online creative writing classes any time from anywhere.The Basement Writing Workshop was designed as an alternative to the high-brow classes taught in MFA programs and other online creative writing schools. Our courses are for people with a story, who want to know how to tell it. Our staff is made up of professional writers who make a living from their writing, and who value honesty in their work. We prefer the gritty to the polished, a dirty story to a clean one.
Community is an important part of our writing courses. Writing can be a lonely enterprise, and one lacking in reward, especially when faced with the realities of the publishing world. Our online writing classes include profiles, autobiographical writing, and frequent "check-ins" to ensure that students feel connected to both their teachers and fellow writers.
Our courses last ten weeks, and are taught in a workshop format. In the first week of each course, including our fiction writing classes, all students are asked to write a short autobiographical essay. Students are then given the opportunity to present their work three times according to the guidelines of the course, to be workshopped by both their professor and fellow students.
One final thing--our classes are just plain cool. We offer sex writing classes, rock and roll writing classes, thriller writing classes, memoir writing classes, and other courses that are difficult to come by in more academic settings.