Michael Culmer

After an excellent speech at graduation:  "Your course made it possible for me to write that speech." 

(excerpted from Creative Writing and the Essay for the Beginner)

Why a Study Guide for Creative Writing?

"The law of supply and demand operates nowhere so powerfully as in literature!"

So Professor John R. Green of Oxford tells us.  He further explains why the essay is so popular.

"The writer aimed at teaching, but at teaching in pleasant and familiar ways; he strove to make evil unreasonable and ridiculous; to shame men by wit and irony out of grossness and bad manners; to draw the world to piety and virtue by teaching piety and virtue themselves to smile...."  (Quoted from Addison’s Essays, Introduction)

From earliest times men have written short, pointed articles.  The Bible is full of such.  Today these are the main criteria for writing.  Ask the web writer if this is not so!   A good, short course teaching creative writing using the essay is a must.  Try it!