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The Open University in the UK offers free courses via its OpenLearn and LearnSpace online offerings. This is the Start Writing Fiction free online course. Check for others via OpenLearn also.

Excellent online workshops, by the publishers of Writer's Digest. WOW courses are available in several genres, and you have access to experienced tutors to help through the course.

Rob Parnell's Easy Way to Write contains several different writing courses - which are delivered via email installments. If you sign up for the newsletter, you will also receive copious writing tips, and free ebook courses.

Holly Lisle's Online Writing Career course, How to Think Sideways. For 6 or 12 months. Excellent course, full of content and explanation. Thoroughly recommended.

Arvon Foundation, creative writing courses, taught by professional writers. Starting to write, residential writing courses open access, bursary - grant support

The Renegade Writer provides regular e-courses, including - Travel Writing Food Writing Trade Magazines, and Magazine Writing Freelance Writing Business Story Ideas Non-Fiction Blogging

Online education has become a crucial part of the modern engineer's continuing professional development (CPD), as the offered courses pullulate year by year, the level of the instructors raises, and the topics spectrum widens and also deepens.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) holds many of its courses as free online and open to anyone. Look for writing coursework on here, under the humanistic and writing category, or literature.

Creative Writing Courses

The University of Utah offers an Introduction to Creative Writing and Introduction to Shakespeare free and online. Download the courseware for the Creative Writing course from this page

Free Courses for Writers - 100 listed.

Writer Crash Test.com features video critiques of writing work. It is a small website off the How to Think Sideways e-course of Holly Lisles.

All of us spend way too much time online. The big question is: How well is that time spent? We read things and, five minutes later, couldn't tell you what we've read. We post blogs and update our Facebook status and imagine there are people who are really interested but are they-and we, of course-only going through the motions of showing interest? And woe betide you if you're trying to sell something to your peers because the odds are they're trying to sell something to you and if they buy what you're offering and you buy what they're offering isn't that all a bit pointless? Step back, take off the pink-tinted glasses and have a fresh look at your online habits.

Absolute Write has two newsletters to sign up to - and you will receive free listings of agents or job markets on signup. The site also sells ebooks, and software for writers, provides a writers directory, a large library of articles on writing, and a healthy writers forum called the Water Cooler. There are also classes / courses sold onsite which vary in content and duration.

Writer's News magazine - the website includes subscription forms for the physical magazine, and links to home study courses, an active set of community boards, competition details, and U.K. writing news stories.

Elizabeth Stark's blog, with links to her online writing courses (currently supporting NaNoWriMo efforts).

Performancing's podcast on Blogging - informational ideas for writers with blogs, and of course - particularly useful if you are a professional blogger.

"That business writing course taught me many things, but didn't offer much practical advice. After many emails, plans, and business letters, I made some practical improvements which I'm about to share with you."

Nothing inspires a writer more than really good writing. Except, of course, really good motivational quotes about writing and books.