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New course: Detective comedy with the Falcon's Malteser
Shabby detectives, mysterious clients, and tropes too good to refuse! Learn to write hardboiled detective parody with Anthony Horowitz's The Falcon's Malteser.
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It lives! After a multi-year hiatus, Writelike is back in development!
After a few years working on other projects, we're back on Writelike. Check out the new lessons, features and support information.
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Coming soon: Curriculum mapping!
We're finally beginning to map Writelike content to national curricula. First will be Australia and the U.S., with more to follow.
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New info: How to teach with Writelike
At long last, we've written some information about what Writelike represents, and how teachers can use it effectively in class.
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Help us prove whether or not Writelike works
We created Writelike because we wanted to make a profound difference in student writing. Does it work? Run a two-week trial and help us figure that out.
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New course: Narrative Basics
Characters with beliefs! Places with history! Dialogue with intent! The new Narrative Basics course teaches all this and more.
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New course: High-concept narrative in Gone
Cataclysmic concepts! Heroic triumvirates! Misbehaving mobs! Developing a high-concept story using the first chapter of Michael Grant's GONE as a model.
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New feature: Students can highlight their own responses
Finally, students can highlight their own workbook and portfolio responses.
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New feature: Experimental vocabulary support
Abdicate? Phosphoric? Enraptured? Students can now get vocabulary stimulus in lessons, drawn from texts in the relevant genre.
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