Thanks for the post, gabalyn--I looked around at the CTY offerings and it looks like they have a Summer email-based course that might work for us (and DD qualified for CTY last year, so we would be set on that), but in the course description it sounds like it's geared towards kids who are actually writing above grade level, which would be great for those kids but I'm not sure where DD is and I kind of suspect she is at or below grade level--but I don't know how to evaluate that at all. I guess I could ask the program people. CTY is also much more expensive, but then it might be worth it anyway if it was a good course and a good fit. What didn't you like about time4writing?