Awesome Masterclass Courses for Writers

From Margaret Atwood, Roxanne Gay, and Neil Gaiman

If you haven’t checked out Masterclass yet, you probably should. It’s a subscription streaming service that costs me slightly less than my Netflix subscription, but provides me with so much more.

There are a few different pricing plans, including one for the whole family (up to 6 devices) that costs less than twice the price of an individual sub.

Once you’re signed up to Masterclass, you can learn from the best. You can learn to sing with Christina Aguilera or cook with Gordon Ramsay.

You can also learn about writing, with the type of writers you’d be honoured to get a single guest lecture with, if you were actually studying for a creative writing degree. Here are a few of the classes I’ve taken so far.

• Creative Writing with Margaret Atwood

• Fiction, Memory and Imagination with Amy Tan

• Writing with Malcolm Gladwell

• The Art of Storytelling with Neil Gaiman

• Writing for Social Change with Roxanne Gay

No affiliate links here, by the way. As far as I’m aware, Masterclass doesn’t have an affiliate program. Just awesome lessons from dedicated, talented, professional writers with a ton of valuable advice.

And here’s some more writing advice I’ve been enjoying this week

• 11 good reasons to develop a distinguishable writing voice by

  Alex Mathers

• Why Your Writing Habit Is Important by

  J.R. Heimbigner

• Let’s Make a Five-Year Plan by

  Shaunta Grimes

• How I Tricked Myself Into Thinking My Book Flopped by

  Ben Le Fort

• How Much I Earned From a Viral (Non-Boosted) Story on Medium by

  David McIlroy

What else I’ve been up to this week

Reading: Some of my fave bits of The 5am Club by Robin Sharma (Here are my takeaways from this book – getting up at 5am isn’t one of them)

Listening to/watching: Masterclass courses

Enjoying: A particularly prolific writing week (here’s how I write over half a million words a year)

Not enjoying: How much admin I have to catch up on because I’ve been doing nothing but writing this week

My recent Medium posts

(friend links, of course, so you can read for free):

• The Power of a Regular Reset

• Five Reasons To Sell Your Digital Products on Gumroad

That’s all for this week. If you’re reading this online or in the app, feel free to subscribe to get future posts straight to your inbox.