LARRY HODGES

I’ve taken two online courses with Scott Andrews, and both were excellent, eye-opening experiences. Taken from the award-winning editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the courses are an in-depth study of how to write fiction. The courses are made up of four things: Reading (both fiction to be analyzed and articles on writing fiction); Scott’s lectures (where he welcomes questions); Homework (which involve both analysis of the assigned readings and assigned writing); and Critiques of each other’s writings, within the subject matter of the course being taught. But there’s also a fifth element—Scott’s critiques, both of our assigned writing and of our critiques. When I described the courses as “in-depth,” this in particular is what I had in mind as Scott does an almost line-by-line analysis of your work—and fear not, he praises the good (so you know what’s good) as well as commenting on the not-so-good, and how it could be made better. Plus, it’s fun to spend a few weeks with other writers in such a literary atmosphere!

        –LARRY HODGES