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New course: Memoir Basics
Reflect on life, lessons, and the world by modelling a host of interesting snippets from memoirs.
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New lessons: Onboarding
New to Writelike and need a run through of what’s involved? Onboarding lessons are here to show how to get familiar with and teach using Writelike.
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New feature: Wrotevote
Writer vs Writer! Snippet vs Snippet! As a group, you can now read, review and vote for your favourite writing with this fun new feedback function!
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New lessons: Genre Remix
Golden age sci-fi positivity. Comic strip wordplay. Creepy, understated horror. Our new lessons continue the Remix hijinx while focussing on specific genres.
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Bringing more of a party feel with Mixed Remix lessons
French Revolution as tabloid journalism. Kitchen fail as art gallery label. Godzilla as haiku. Learn to recombine genre and content with Mixed Remix lessons.
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New feature: Group social feeds in lessons
To make Writelike work a little more sociable, we’ve created activity feeds so students can read and respond to work of other students in their group.
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Follow Writelike on social media
We've started a Facebook page, we're posting to Instagram, and working up the guts to say something on Twitter—follow us for "quality content".
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New course: First person narrative in That Eye, the Sky
Master subjective narration and first person storytelling by modelling the opening chapter of Tim Winton's novel, That Eye, the Sky.
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New course: Observing and describing in Storm Boy
Lyrical and timeless, Storm Boy is a classic story and a challenging text to model for writers of any age.
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New course: Science fantasy worldbuilding in Phoenix
Space! Aliens! Exotic tech! We sample some of the most tropey moments from British author S.F. Said’s popular science fantasy novel, Phoenix.
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