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Many organizations offer creative writing courses, which you can attend in person or through distance learning: local colleges of further education, universities, private colleges and agencies and personal tutors. You will also, of course, find many online. If you attend a course in person, you will have the advantage of meeting your tutor and other budding writers regularly, which can be very morale-boosting. If you opt for an online or distance-learning course, be selective. There are many to choose from, and standards as well as what they offer can vary a great deal. Good online and distance-learning courses will assign you a tutor who will set you assignments and give you constructive feedback, and whom you can email and speak to on the phone, and possibly meet in person. Some well-established distance-learning courses – for example, the Open University – also give you the opportunity to attend a residential summer school, while The Arvon Foundation offers regular residential writing courses at beautiful locations around the country, where you are tutored in small groups by a published writer in your chosen genre.