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Academy of Achievement: Achieve*NET Curriculum -> Creative Writing: Learning from the Masters

The Creative Writing lesson focuses on the lives and craft of six of America's most preeminent writers of fiction. Through intimate and revealing discussions, these authors attempt to unravel the mystery around the art of creative writing. The writers brought together in this lesson are: Ernest Gaines, Carol Shields, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Norman Mailer, and John Irving. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/curriculum/creative_writing/index.html
When I started writing The Spirit War (Eli novel #4), I had a bit of a problem. http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html

How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day

Jim Carrey in Disney's A Christmas Carol: 'Apart from Dickens, far too cinematic adaptations of novels disappoint.' From time to time, this column is asked for advice, sometimes obsessively, about decoding the many mysteries of "the world of books".

m.guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/18/fifty-literary-life-robert-mccrum
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/assign/e50x1.htm

Exercises in Writing for Beginning Writers

Instructor: Jim Manis Email: jdm12@psu.edu http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis

Lifewriting Classes

Steven Barnes' Free Writing Class! What follows is, in slightly modified form, the complete text of the 9-week writing class I've taught for years at UCLA. http://www.lifewrite.com/html/class.htm
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/28/50-free-resources-that-will-improve-your-writing-skills/

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills - Smashing Magazine