How Skillshare Quickly Helps You Improve As A Writer: Here Are 7 Reasons
By: Shannon Eliz O'Hara
Tags: Writers On Writing, Writing Tips, Writing Life, Writers Block, Skills Development

What Is Skillshare?

Skillshare is an online learning platform, in fact, it is seen as one of the best.

A place where you can gain new knowledge to apply in real-life situations, from your career, hobby or personal life.

This platform focuses on delivering a variety of courses. The courses are divided into:

Creative

Build

Thrive

In total, it has 16 subcategories and thousands of courses which is continuously growing.

With the premium membership, you can get full access to all of the courses available.

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1 Freebies

If you are on the fence and want to try an e-learning platform but you’re not sure whether it will be worth it, this can stop you from taking the leap.

Now, what if I said you could get access to all it has to offer in a 2-month free trial?

That sounds great, right?

On the other hand, there are also free lifetime courses. These are classes you have access to whether you have a paid/ trial account or not.

There are still many options for these free courses. For example, using the tag ‘writing’ there are 143 available to watch right now.

Try one of the free ways to use Skillshare as a test run to see if you’d like the full version!

2 As affordable as Netflix

When thinking about a service, we want to get the most out of our money. Which is why I am comparing Skillshare to an affordable service that a large amount of the population uses: Netflix.

What can each offer us?

Netflix can give you a large library of tv series or films as a form of entertainment. Skillshare can give you a large collection of life long skills to improve your private or career pathway.

Netflix is £8.99 per month Standard subscription — two deceives watching in HD. OR £11.99 a month Premium subscription — four devices can watch ultra HD wherever available.

Skillshare is £13 per month or £84 for the year (£7 per month).

That seems pretty reasonable.

The best of both worlds, having an affordable way to relax and boost yourself.

3 Active learning

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

I can’t sum it up better than that.

You want to improve and learn new things to become a better writer?

Not only do you automatically have to motivation to continue learning to enhance your writing.

By pairing this with Skillshare, you are able to practice and involve yourself with the craft of storytelling.

How is this included on skillshare? Do it yourself aspect.

Above, there is a resources section. In every skillshare course, there are projects waiting for you to use your new skills on.

Like Benjamin Franklin stated, to truly learn something, you need to take an active role in consuming the information by trying it out for yourself.

Moreover, as every writer has heard, to get better you need to keep writing. Take this as your chance to practice your storytelling, guided by an expert in their field.

4 Pick Up Where You Left Off

What I mean by this is, learning online has benefits of having access to the courses any time you want. This always means you can stop and start at any point.

5 Add To Calendar

Do you struggle to make time for learning new skills? Need a way to plan ahead, as easy as possible?

There is an option right next to ‘save’, where you are able to add this course to your calendar.

As a writer, it can be hard to balance all your work and personal life needs, on top of all this, finding the time to set aside for your story.

Let alone learning to enhance your skills as a writer.

This handy button is a quick way of evaluating:

You want time to learn a new skill

That you are prepared to find when you can do so

Use your other commitments on, for example, google calendar to see exactly when you are able to fit this into your day.

This is a much better option than thinking you want to learn ___ writing skill and forgetting about it because you haven’t planned ahead and made time in your schedule.

6 Groups

In Skillshare, you are able to connect with other creators. Think of it as a forum of Skillshare members in your industry, where you can post:

Questions

Engage in discussion

Prompts

Talk about courses

Share your work

Get feedback

Discuss interests

It is a great place to talk to others who are also improving their writing skills.

Being new to any platform, you can wonder what courses are a useful way to spend your time, which offers a solution to more than one of the things you want to learn. Why not ask those who are in the same boat?

7 Easy Usage

Any site can call itself user friendly, it is a phrase that easily placed onto everything these days.

Until you try out the website and find something quite opposite to the truth. Leaving bad reviews in hopes of change or deterring others from using it too.

1.As you are typing in the search bar, both related keywords and courses appear to help you find what you’d like to learn.

2. See something you like? Bookmark it for later.

There is a lot of courses for your eyes to feast on. To get a feel of what there is to offer, search-related terms, mark them when they spark interest and revisit your chosen ones to see what you would like to start with.

3. Clear layout, enabling first-time users to get precisely where they want to go without fumbling around.

4. Reviews on every class to help you decide on choosing a course that’s right for you.

5. Help centre, to answer all your queries or talk directly to the support team who reply swiftly.

Find out how easy it is to use Skillshare yourself!

Click here to start using Skillshare.

Have you used skillshare? Let me know in the comments what you think. Until then.

From my blog: https://discoveringawritersvoice.com/skillshare-improves-you-as-a-writer