Thought some of you  might be interested in this four-week online course by WordPress called Writing 201: Beyond the Blog Post. This one isn’t about blogging, but about writing. Starts December 1st. Here’s the write-up explaining how it works:

The nuts and bolts

• Writing 201: Beyond the Blog Post begins on Monday, December 1.
• New workshops are published at 12:00 AM GMT on Mondays. Each one helps you create a new longform piece of writing — interview, instructional, opinion, and personal essay/memoir. (And since you’ll get your final workshop on December 22, you can wrap up in time for the year-end holidays.)
• What “longform” means depends partly on you, but we use it to denote writing that’s 1500 words or more.
• There are no posting requirements; the emphasis is on exploring new forms and workshopping your material. Publish your work when and where you’d like.
• Participants will have a private community site, the Commons, for workshopping, chatting, and connecting with others. Daily Post and Longreads staff and WordPress.com Happiness Engineers will be on hand to answer questions and offer guidance.
• This course is completely free and open to bloggers and writers from any platform.

Also information on how much or how little you want to do and/or reveal:

The course doesn’t have “assignments.” Publish a draft on Monday, a work-in-progress on Thursday, a new post on Saturday, or even commentary on the writing process. Don’t publish at all, or submit your piece to an online magazine. What you publish and how is up to you.

You can also opt to get free PDFs for Writing 101 and/or Writing 201 here.

I’m going to give it a try!