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Creative Writing

Your child's own
Creative Writing tutor

Pioneered by Stanford AI researchers and learning scientists, Aristotle is the world's first voice-based AI tutor. A full Creative Writing course, mapped skill by skill.

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Fits your child's Creative Writing class

Mapped skill by skill

Every skill mapped

Creative Writing on Aristotle is 58 skills across 9 units, each linked to the skills it builds on.

Your class or your curiosity

Share a syllabus, textbook, or reading list and sessions follow it, or let Aristotle lead the way through the course.

Your child's pace

Aristotle moves on when a skill is mastered and slows down when it isn't, so no time goes to what your child already knows.

Features

All the tools of a great tutor.

Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.

Learn out loud

Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.

An interactive whiteboard

Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.

Practice built for you

Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.

65 subjects and counting

From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.

Review with ease

Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.

Upload your own materials

Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!

Personalized tracking

We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.

A tutor that knows you

Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.

The curriculum

58 Creative Writing skills, personalized to your child

Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.

Sample curriculum

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Finding Something to Write

Writing a Scene That Moves

People Who Want Different Things

Choosing Who Tells the Story

From Premise to Finished Story

Place, Genre, and Imagined Worlds

Writing Poems

Personal Essays and Dramatic Scenes

Finishing, Workshopping, and Revising

Creative Writing tutoring curriculum58 skills across 9 units

Finding Something to Write

Build a store of observations, questions, and possibilities that can become a small finished piece. Topics: The Writer’s Notebook, Reading Like a Writer.

Writing a Scene That Moves

Give readers something to picture and a reason to keep reading. Topics: Action, Detail, and Change, Scene, Summary, and Pacing.

People Who Want Different Things

Build characters whose choices and relationships create the story. Topics: Desire, Contradiction, and Choice, Dialogue and Subtext.

Choosing Who Tells the Story

Control the information, distance, and language through which readers experience events. Topics: Point of View and Distance, Sentences, Images, and Tone.

From Premise to Finished Story

Shape a short story or a longer project around choices and consequences. Topics: Openings, Development, and Endings, Flash Fiction and Longer Projects.

Place, Genre, and Imagined Worlds

Give a setting consequences and use genre expectations deliberately. Topics: Setting That Affects the Story, Mystery, Speculation, and Suspense.

Writing Poems

Use concentrated language, sound, and shape to discover a poem’s movement. Topics: Images, Speakers, and Sound, Lines, Turns, and Revision.

Personal Essays and Dramatic Scenes

Try forms whose relationships to truth, reflection, and performance differ from fiction. Topics: Memoir and the Personal Essay, Writing for Performance.

Finishing, Workshopping, and Revising

Learn to see what a draft actually does and choose the revision that matters most. Topics: Receiving and Giving Useful Feedback, Revision and a Small Portfolio.

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parent of Andy, 13Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Common questions about online Creative Writing tutoring

A few things you might wonder before getting started.

What does Aristotle's Creative Writing course cover?

Aristotle's Creative Writing course tracks 58 skills across 9 units, including Finding Something to Write, Writing a Scene That Moves, and People Who Want Different Things. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of Creative Writing your child has mastered and what to teach next.

Who is Aristotle's Creative Writing course for?

What does a Creative Writing tutoring session look like?

Does Aristotle follow my child's Creative Writing class?

Can Aristotle help if my child is struggling with Creative Writing?

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How is Aristotle different from ChatGPT for Creative Writing help?

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A little help. A lot to learn.

For homework, supporting your child, or anything you’ve always wanted to know more about, Aristotle makes it easy for anyone to learn out loud.