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Posted 12.19.25
Online courses for writers exist for a simple reason: learning to write well on your own is harder than it needs to be.
It's harder because of uncertainty. Every new writer eventually hits the same wall: Am I doing this right? I know I did. Figuring everything out on your own is slow and discouraging.
But now, thanks to the internet, your frustration and isolation are unnecessary.
- A good writing course teaches a practical skill. I’ve taken dozens of online courses for writers. For me, the best ones don’t just teach theory. Instead, I’ve used them to learn a usable skill to add to my writing arsenal.
- A good writing course saves you guesswork. Since I’m all about making writing simple, I’ve gone on to create some of my own online courses for writers – courses that shorten your learning curve and remove the guesswork by showing you how good writing actually works, step by step, in the real world.
- A good writing course saves you time. The right course can move you from “aspiring” to actively writing much faster. Below are some of my favorite online writing courses that truly deliver on that promise.
Online Courses For Writers: Freelancing
Write Your Way To Your First $1K
Why it’s a favorite: The course provides a roadmap to making a lucrative living as a freelance writer.
You love to write. And you've even heard about freelance writing. There's only one problem: You don't have a clue how to begin or if it's possible to make a living as a writer.
Enter Elna Cain and her course, Write Your Way To Your First $1K. After having her twins, she wanted to leave her soul-crushing 9-5 job. So she developed a solid, successful strategy that took her from pennies to four figures – with hardly any experience.
If you want to learn how to become a freelance writer for
online businesses from one who has been there – and who makes a good living as
a freelancer – take Elna’s course.
Online Courses For Writers: Copywriting
The Accelerated Program for Seven-Figure Copywriting
Why it’s a favorite: This course taught me fundamental copywriting and persuasive writing skills that I use in all my content.
Find out how you can earn a good living from the little-known lucrative business of copywriting. The Accelerated Program for Seven-Figure Copywriting has transformed the lives of thousands of writers – including me.
I took the course and learned copywriting skills, which in turn opened the door for me to start my own freelancing business. Any writer who wants to write for businesses, online companies, nonprofits (or simply wants to learn persuasive writing skills) can benefit from this course.
Today, I work from home and have complete control over my schedule. You do the same. Check out the course.
Online Courses For Writers: Grant Writing
Grant Writing Fundamentals
Why it’s a favorite: Grant Writing Fundamentals teaches writers a highly specialized and marketable skill.
Grant writing is increasingly in demand. Yet it is a skill you can learn, enabling you to provide a desperately needed service to nonprofit organizations and earn a lucrative income at the same time.
This self-paced online grant writing course (in its digital download version) explains how the grant process works, how a grant proposal is structured, and how to write each element in the application. By the end of the course, you’ll have completed writing or editing a grant proposal that you can submit on behalf of a nonprofit organization or use as a writing sample in your portfolio.
The course is offered once a year in weekly modules with coaching, too.
Online Courses For Writers: Blogging
The 20-Minute Blogger
Why it’s a favorite: This practical approach empowers bloggers to write and post more.
Do you have 20 minutes? Then you take a writing course that teaches you to build your blog, even if you are starved for extra time: The 20-Minute Blogger.
Many of us don’t have time to blog consistently. This course gives you practical steps to take to add posts consistently to your blog and build your site content in just 20 minutes a day. By the time you complete this course, you will have…
- Created a pool of your own ideas for blog posts
- Mastered a simple blueprint to use to write winning blog posts
- Learned how to use short bursts of time – like 20 minutes – to write new content day after day, week after week.
Online Courses For Writers: Devotionals
Writing Devotionals That Stick
Why it’s a favorite: It’s a step-by-step blueprint any writer can use for writing devotionals.
Devotionals are a unique genre. And you can write them! Leaders, entrepreneurs, students, moms, professionals, writers – or those who want to be – have learned to write devotionals by using the principles found in this course.
Writing Devotionals That Stick is a full-length, online course that walks with you step-by-step as you learn to write devotionals in a way that stays with today’s busy, distracted readers.
It’s a fun and easy-to-use guide packed with examples, writing tips, and exercises to help you put the steps into practice right away.
Online Courses For Writers: Websites
Website Creation Workshop
Why it’s a favorite: Christina makes technology simple.
Uneasy about tech – or even afraid? Christina Hills offers all kinds of practical courses that make technology accessible to creative types. Her Website Creation Workshop is a favorite for writers. It's live twice a year and takes you through the process of creating your own website without a webmaster. You’ll learn how to create a blog or a website that is easy to update, great for the search engines, and does NOT require special webmaster skills -- with step-by-step assignments that make it (dare I say it?) fun to build your site.
Get a taste for the course with Christina’s free Non-Techie’s Roadmap to Website Success.
How to Build, Write, and Grow Your Own Money-Making
Websites
Why it’s a favorite: I used it to create my own money-making websites.
While you probably don’t mind the idea of writing for clients in the traditional way, the internet has, for a while now, given us other ways to make money as writers.
One way is to generate “clientless” cash, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — with very little effort on your part. That is what a Money-Making Website can do for you.
Nick Usborne – whose own Money-Making Websites have generated well into six figures – leads you through the process, as he has for more than 5,000 students. Everything from how to zero in on the best idea for your site… setting it up… creating the content… monetizing it… driving loads of traffic to your site… tracking and collecting money…
I took this course, and now I have three Money-Making Websites of my own. It’s one of the best investments I’ve ever made.
Free writing courses for beginners
Blogging: Why Build Your Blog
Why it’s a favorite: It’s a free, quick way to discover whether or not a blog is worth the time you’ll need to put into it to be successful.
Your blog is an incredible way to build your online audience, extend your reach, and build your business. But building your blog takes some time. If you’re going to invest yourself, you want to know your why.
By the end of the Why Build Your Blog mini-course, you’ll understand six great reasons to make that investment ... and you'll have identified YOUR unique "why" for building your blog.
Devotionals: Getting Started Writing Devotionals
Why it’s a favorite: In less than an hour, you’ll be writing your own devotional.
Devotionals are growing in popularity. Many writers want to write and publish their own. But many are uncertain where to begin ... and how to write their life lessons in a way that is helpful and inspiring to others.
Getting Started Writing Devotionals gives you a blueprint to personalize and follow as you write devotionals. You will be able to follow this blueprint no matter what life lesson you want to share with your readers.
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