I took:

How to Write Better
A bunch of Second City courses (satirical essay)
A couple of Gotham writing courses (Creative Writing I and Memoir/Essayist)
Currently redoing College Writing I on Outlier (it is FANTASTIC)

Would this course be designed for people interested in blogging/writing books or people looking to be better at communicating for example: communicating with work colleagues, writing a self review etc for work etc.

It’s an employer offering this course to all employees as part of a general comms upskill program.

Journaling (long form!). It’s important to identify our own internal voice(s) and get comfortable with it(them) daily. Helps with everything from email and decks to novels/memoirs.

Then, some basic psychology to help discern who you’re communicating to and how to speak to them.

You don’t. You just sit down and write down the first thing that comes to mind and continue for an hour. 

Neil Gaiman said something similar to this, which sounds pithy but is true: to be a writer you need to write. 🤷‍♀️

how did you figure out what you wanted to write on?

would love to see how to best use ai chatbots like chatgpt to write better

What were some courses that you took? The no-editing one sounds absolutely amazing!

definitely a crash course on good outlining, aka how to build a “skeleton” and then write around it

also, workshops where you give learners a pre-written sentence or paragraph and have them edit it/shuffle things around is a great exercise

Writers, if you were to run a course in effective writing for people who aren’t very comfortable writing, what would you be sure to include?

Oh love the outline one! The sentence shuffle is also a great icebreaker.

Practice. I took several courses but the most impactful was the one which forced me to write (no editing) for an hour for a month. Changed my life.

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