The Novel Kickstarter Course

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Craft your idea, shape your story, and write a complete first draft

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The Classic Storytelling Class

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From an idea to a complete first draft

Find your big idea and learn the secrets of storytelling, then turn your idea into a fearless first draft.

The Novel Kickstarter Course gives you everything you need to start—and finish—a powerful first draft. With The Classic Storytelling Class, learn timeless story patterns, mythic structure, and the emotional architecture behind the world’s most enduring tales. Then, in The Ninety Day Novel Class, build daily writing habits and write a complete novel with expert craft lessons, structured milestones, and deep character work. With one-to-one coaching sessions from a bestselling author to co-pilot you through writing a stand-out story in your chosen genre of fiction or memoir. Plus live writing classes and a community alongside, with your peers sharing the journey, to cheer you on. From first spark to final chapter, this course blends inspiration with discipline. It’s a complete start-to-finish system designed to help you write boldly, brilliantly—and actually get the thing done. No fluff. Just story-first, writer-powered progress.

Reasons not to take the first steps on a big adventure

But I don’t have the time!

One hour per day. That’s all the commitment we ask of you. Just one hour a day to make your writing dreams a reality.

But I don’t have a story!

Then you’re in the right place. Step one of the course—The Classic Storytelling Class—is designed precisely to kindle your ideas and ignite your voice.

But I’m not sure I have any talent!

Not all writers suffer from imposter syndrome. Only the good ones. The art of storytelling can be learned. And our bestselling author coaches are the best in the business at teaching it.

The Novel Kickstarter Course

Find your story and write a complete first draft of your novel.

The Classic Storytelling Class

Come up with a fantastic idea for a page-turner. Plan a storyline that excites you and learn how to bring to life complex main characters. Outline and develop the world of your tale to capture the reader’s imagination page after page.

Lessons: 55 (1 hour each)

✨ Lesson 1: Let’s begin

Step into a new, playful, idea-rich phase of your writing life. Use this class to supercharge an existing idea or create a new one. Learn how a compelling premise arises from two things that don’t belong together. Bust the myths that writing requires privilege, genius, or solitude. This is your creative apprenticeship in the storytelling secrets behind the world’s all-time bestselling classics. Follow 55 lessons and complete the tasks to create a story you can’t wait to write.

🕯️ Lesson 2: Your space, your time, your mind

Create a secret world of comfort and joy. Set up your space with objects that matter to quiet the inner critic. Start fresh with a new notebook. Give yourself one golden hour a day, stolen from duty, to build the habit. The best ideas come in the other twenty-three. Fiction begins with change—first in mindset. Curiosity and compassion are your new tools.

🧙‍♂️ Lesson 3: What makes a classic?

Discover why the most-loved novels of all time—from J.R.R. Tolkien to Donna Tartt—use three key ingredients: an extreme situation, a touch of magic, and a deep ‘walk in my shoes’ immersion. Learn how classics dramatize the big theme of good versus evil and deliver wonderment. Bestselling stories layer conflict and the magic of transformation to keep readers hooked. The stakes must be high. Welcome to the buffet of ideas. Choose your favorite elements to build your own story.

🪄 Lesson 4: Where do ideas come from?

Use the storytelling formula: something familiar + something unexpected = something new. Begin with your own secret yearning and a story theme that pulls at you again and again. Build your main character from someone unforgettable in your past—part real, part imagined. Make them defiant and elusive. Shift your perspective: who would you be if you could be anybody? A novel is one person’s moral journey with a reward that exceeds their imagining at the start of the story.

🧚‍♀️ Lesson 5: Creative thinking

Begin with a seed of an idea that feels personal and emotionally charged. Learn how to caretake half-formed ideas. Get practical tools to spark ideas—dream notebooks, character lists, music, poetry, and emotional snapshots from your own life. Learn why the genre you read is the genre you should write, and how your sense of justice drives the novel forward. Start sketching character possibilities and collecting moments that move you.

🪬 Lesson 6: The great story structure

Learn The Novelry’s Five Fs®, a clear five-part structure rooted in Aristotle, Shakespeare, Freytag, and Yorke. Discover how the story moves from what the character wants to what they need. Explore Booker’s seven basic plots, from Quest to Tragedy, and see how bestselling stories often combine more than one. Identify whether your main character has a personal flaw or a ‘cosmic’ flaw. Start assigning loose ideas to each F in your notebook. Use this structure as a tool to shape one person’s moral growth.

🧸 Lesson 7: The small story

Start with a story that’s stood the test of time. Learn why bestselling novels often grow from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and folk tales—small stories that carry big emotional weight. Discover how The Snow Child was inspired by a Russian fable and blends extreme setting, magic, and empathy. Get your own story starter by choosing a tale you loved as a child and identifying the elements that still resonate—taboo, temptation, desire. Begin shaping a story that feels both familiar and personal, built on a foundation that’s already strong.

🧞‍♂️ Lesson 8: Books based on myths and fairy tales

Learn why the best one-line pitches combine something familiar with something unexpected, like fairy tales or myths reimagined. Discover how timeless tales survive because they speak truth fast, and see why 99% of publishing success depends on 0.001% of the words: the hook. Explore examples from Circe to The Silence of the Girls. Begin drafting your own hook now.

🎩 Lesson 9: A story as unique as you

Start with your flaws, fears, and longings—they’re your storytelling gold. Learn how Hans Christian Andersen turned rejection and ambition into timeless tales, and why your small, strange truth is the key to connection. Discover how wishful thinking and a hunger for justice create the arc of a story. Choose a main character who deserves a break. Care for them like a parent. What makes your story unique isn’t invention—it’s you. Every painful, hopeful part. That’s the secret ingredient behind every classic.

🎡 Lesson 10: A working model

Study a complete story in miniature, built with The Five Fs®. Learn how the author broke from tradition by creating an original tale with no happy ending, aimed at adults, and rooted in personal truth. See how honest storytelling replaces cunning, and how pain becomes power. Explore how extreme settings, character flaws, and moral justice shape lasting fiction. Use this model to begin planning your own story—one that moves from secret hurt to meaningful change.

🪦 Lesson 11: The long shadow of the little story

Trace how one story lives on in another, how we inherit and re-shape old stories, and how sorrow, bias, and memory create great fiction. Explore using first-person voice, unreliability, and moral ambiguity. Learn how to do the same: start with a fairy tale, then filter it through your experience. Draft bold, bias-filled statements for your main character. Use voice to bring your theme to life from the first line.

🔪 Lesson 12: Fairy story ideas for very adult novels

The dark-hearted fairy tales of childhood often shape crime fiction and thrillers—from Bluebeard to Gone Girl. Discover why secrets, transgressions, and forbidden rooms reappear in modern novels about women who won’t behave. See how themes like missing children, changelings, and haunted houses echo through today’s bestsellers. Consider what scared you as a child; it might be where an adult story hides.

🥾 Lesson 13: Walk in my shoes

Write simply, honestly, and with small strokes. Forget fancy phrasing—focus on clarity and emotional truth. Learn how style is shaped by theme, cast, setting, and voice. Take inspiration from Booker Prize winner Yann Martel: begin with what you want to say, then choose the form that best delivers it.

🍀 Lesson 14: Making ideas happen

Start with your sense of justice. Take a character who suffers unfairly, misjudges their situation, or represents a wider truth—and send them on a journey to set things right. Learn how every genre, from Macbeth to White Tiger, is powered by a moral choice. Build a cast around your theme: allies, antagonists, and opposites who test your hero’s growth. Give your reader a fair outcome that satisfies.

🎠 Lesson 18: Wonder

The classics—from The Divine Comedy to The Curious Incident—use wonder to express something beyond ordinary life. Learn how to evoke that feeling by disrupting the world’s value system and revealing forgotten desires. Explore the idea of Sehnsucht—a longing without resolution—and use it to seed moments of awe. Get examples from Narnia, Gatsby, Rebecca, and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Discover how to slow the story around your wonder moment, and how to build a list of objects, events, or people that deliver wonder in your own story.

🕊️ Lesson 19: The numinous

Learn how to access the numinous—those fleeting moments of awe, mystery, or spiritual emotion that lift a story beyond the everyday. Explore the idea of the numinous as both terrifying (tremendum) and fascinating (fascinans). See how writers from C.S. Lewis to Ursula K. Le Guin embed this feeling in fiction. Discover how yearning, self-abasement, and emotional frailty unlock numinosity. A big story is powered by the main character’s desire for something beyond the world they know—and their need to see it.

🪶 Lesson 20: The feeling

Learn how to evoke the numinous—those strange, shivery moments of awe, dread, and desire. Study how C.S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, and J.R.R. Tolkien use ‘curious’ sensations to lead readers into other worlds. Explore how fiction offers not escape but recovery, consolation, and feeling. Create a character who serves as a guide—more curious, more open—to lead your protagonist toward wonder. Let the reader feel what the character feels. That’s how a novel moves from story to experience.

🍽️ Lesson 21: The recipe with two ingredients

Learn the two key ingredients that create awe in fiction: fear (mysterium tremendum) and wonder (fascinans). Explore how this mix, known as the sublime, shows up in the smallest things—a bird’s call, a falling leaf, a broken clock. Discover how to create ‘creature-feeling,’ where the character senses something vast and beyond them. Study how writers like Blake and Yeats used small, specific images to unlock big emotion.

🌩️ Lesson 22: Mysterium tremendum

Use fear to open the door to awe. Learn how mysterium tremendum—the feeling of dread in the face of something vast—prepares readers for transformation. Discover how foreboding scenes (like those in The Handmaid’s Tale or The Hunger Games) trigger ‘creature-feeling’: a sense of smallness that draws us in. Study how stories create this effect through voice, setting, and submission to authority. Begin sketching an opening that stirs dread, builds safety, and opens a door to wonder.

🦩 Lesson 23: Fascinans—transformation and terms of reference

Create transformation that feels real. Use familiar reference points—like seasons, cities, animals, or everyday rituals—to make big change believable. Learn how Tolkien and C.S. Lewis rooted magic in the recognizable to create wonderlands. Explore the idea of transubstantiation: the moment when something becomes something else entirely. Blend characters from memory with symbolic traits—fox, bear, lamb—to express theme. Study how classics like Enduring Love and The Catcher in the Rye make change visible.

🧝 Lesson 24: The crucial transformation

In this lesson, explore how literary protagonists—from Stevens in The Remains of the Day to Nick in Gone Girl—are structured to recover lost truth. Discover how fiction bends time and form to peel back false layers. Get tools to trace your own theme and genre from buried desire. Learn how to use genre as a springboard. Complete guided tasks to uncover formative comforts and define what your story seeks to resolve.

🫖 Lesson 25: A cozy start

Begin your story with comfort and care. Learn how bestselling authors—from J.K. Rowling to J.R.R. Tolkien—use cozy openings to anchor readers in the familiar before revealing the extraordinary. Study how domestic details, like sardines on toast or a feather on a pillow, create a sense of safety and value that raises the stakes. Explore the art of the gentle entry: the warm home, the sleepy protagonist, the maternal narrator. Create a strong emotional foothold for your reader so they’ll follow you into danger, magic, or mystery.

✨ Lesson 26: The Harry Potter spell

Learn how J.K. Rowling cast the perfect first-chapter spell—starting with the familiar, then flipping it fast. Study how she planned, rewrote, and shaped The Philosopher’s Stone to deliver a 4,668-word opener with airtight pacing. Discover how the midpoint marks the exact moment magic overtakes the real world. Explore the 91-step logic of the first chapter: normality disrupted, the magical world introduced, the villain named, and the hero delivered. Use dialogue to deliver world-building, and keep your strongest material up front.

🚪 Lesson 27: The portal

Consider a device that takes your character—and reader—out of the known world and into the story world. A portal can be physical (a wardrobe, a tunnel, a plane), symbolic (a dream, a threshold), or emotional (a moral awakening). Study how classics like Peter Pan and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe use space and light to mark transformation. Explore the portal’s ties to near-death experiences, the hero’s journey, and rebirth.

🌸 Lesson 28: The garden

Build a garden in your story that acts as its first transformative space. Study how settings like Neverland, Narnia, or Soldier Island work as symbolic secondary worlds, full of promise, mystery, and emotional charge. Use your setting to reflect the wants and fears of your characters, from the cozy to the ominous. Learn how light, silence, weather, and nostalgia signal that magic is at hand. Reference myth, memory, and metaphor to define a space the reader will long for. Then draft the garden of your own novel using two focused, practical tasks.

🐾 Lesson 29: The homely guide

Give your reader someone familiar to trust. Learn how the best-loved classics—from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to The Secret Garden—introduce a sidekick or guide who is safe, unthreatening, and often a little irritable! Design a guide, narrator, or sidekick who leads the way—and earns the reader’s trust.

🧿 Lesson 30: The surreal

Use surrealism to crack your story wide open. A thimble becomes a kiss. A shadow gets stitched on. Learn how surreal elements aren’t random—they’re rule-breaking with purpose. Use personal fascinations, vivid objects, and sharp contrasts to spark your own surreal moments. Complete two creative tasks to generate story material that surprises even you. The surreal reveals what logic can’t.

🍞 Lesson 31: The familiar

Start your story with the comforts of home—toast, tea, order, and care. Learn how great authors ground wild tales in familiar rituals, from Bilbo’s pantry to Lucy’s tea with Mr. Tumnus. Study how characters like the Beavers or Nana the dog use parent-like care to ease readers into wonder. Use the structure of the family—even in disguise—to build safety, pattern, and trust. Don’t rush the strange. Begin with something true: the warmth of the kitchen, the rhythm of a lullaby, the shape of a day. The familiar is what makes magic feel real.

🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏿 Lesson 32: The cast

Build your cast from people you’ve known. Steal their quirks, habits, and contradictions. Don’t write a bio—write the quick form with an epitaph. Give each character a role: rival, truth-teller, trickster, guide. When characters clash, your plot begins. Make theme real, not nice.

🍬 Lesson 33: Temptation

Use temptation to test your character’s moral fiber. Learn how food works as a narrative trap in classics, symbolizing desire, danger, and loss of control. Discover why temptation must be linked to your character’s flaw, and why self-discipline marks the turning point in a moral journey. Explore adult versions of temptation—wine, lust, status—and write a scene that stops just before your character gives in. What tempts them reveals them.

⚔️ Lesson 34: The battle

Explore how conflict drives every story—through value systems, moral opposition, and the shadow self. Study how classic stories externalize evil as a tangible force to be confronted and defeated. Examine battles from The Hobbit, Peter Pan, and And Then There Were None to see how brevity, tension, and choreography matter more than violence. Learn to structure your battle scenes, asking: what’s worth fighting for, and who stands in the way? The battle, whether in words or deeds, happens in the heat of the story.

🕰️ Lesson 35: Deeper magic—time

Discover how classic novels bend time to deepen character and theme. Consider the principle of eternalism—used in Slaughterhouse-Five—where past, present, and future coexist. See how storytime differs from real time: it’s shaped by need, not logic. Use time to heighten the contrast between a child’s view and the adult’s reckoning. In fiction, time doesn’t pass—it serves to reveal moral change. Complete tasks to edit your draft for ‘storytime’—the only time that matters. In classic fiction, time isn’t linear. It’s a storytelling tool.

🪐 Lesson 36: Deeper magic—space

Use space to shift your reader into the story world fast. Discover how so many classics move from ordinary to extraordinary by the 3% mark—often through a familiar space turned strange! Very quickly! Discover why it’s not description but transformation that earns belief. Complete two practical tasks: write an opening that signals change, and trim excess from your story’s entry point. In classic fiction, space isn’t setting—it’s momentum.

💎 Lesson 37: The treasure

The treasure your story delivers is not a reward, but a revelation. Learn how classic novels withhold this gift until the end. Study how The Grapes of Wrath and mythic tales use return, renewal, and reckoning to leave a lasting impact. The treasure is often self-knowledge, insight, or love reclaimed. Explore how the end mirrors the beginning, changed by what’s been learned. Complete tasks to define your character’s lowest moment and final gain.

📖 Lesson 44: The authors as individuals

Explore how great authors turned childhood wounds into enduring classics. Learn why personal fragility—not perfection—fuels stories. Discover how the authors mined memory, trauma, and divided selves to create fictional worlds. Study their friendships, rivalries, and creative tensions to understand how ambition and hurt shape narratives. Enduring stories begin not with divine inspiration but with a problem reality couldn’t solve.

🧶 Lesson 45: Mother god or his master’s voice?

Reassurance and immersion for younger readers in classic fiction, and how the first-person voice can create immediacy, subjectivity, and tension—ideal for coming-of-age, suspense, or psychological genres. Explore the narrative styles of the authors to understand how voice influences tone, trust, and credibility. Discover how ‘maternal’ authorial voices coax the reader.

🪙 Lesson 46: Idealism

Explore how the philosophy of Idealism shaped Tolkien and Lewis. Myths, for them, were not lies but truths breathed through silver. It was Tolkien’s view that story is revelation, and the imagination is sacred. Use tasks to clarify your own worldview and build a story with thematic power.

📚 Lesson 47: The impact of the classics

The classics became cultural giants—with vast commercial reach and deep emotional legacy. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Narnia built empires of books, films, merchandise, and theme parks. Discover how Edith Nesbit shaped generations of writers from Roald Dahl to J.K. Rowling, and how Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea transformed modern fantasy. Examine what made these stories last: high-concept world-building, universal emotional stakes, and bold character creation.

🌟 Lesson 48: My hero

For a masterclass in transforming personal sorrow into mythic storytelling, Louise shares her all-time classic. Discover how the loss suffered by the author of the great work drove his life and work, and how grief was transformed magically into the very essence of joy.

🏫 Lesson 49: On the shoulders of giants

Trace the lineage of the classics through the books and ideas that shaped them. See how Rowling, Lewis, Tolkien, Le Guin, Carroll, and Barrie each borrowed from predecessors and reimagined timeless motifs—schools of magic, enchanted portals, moral allegory, and fairylands as psychological landscapes. Discover one unknown author’s vast but often forgotten influence, and why his work offers a practical storytelling blueprint. Even the most original authors stand on the shoulders of literary giants.

💧 Lesson 50: The source

Trace the deep influence of one forgotten writer on the great fantasy writers—from C.S. Lewis and Tolkien to J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman. Learn how his episodic, idea-rich novel created the blueprint for portals, walking quests, homey guides, moral shadows, and magical longing. Discover his signature techniques: rapid transitions to wonder, taboo-triggered temptation, time-bending narrative loops, and the powerful use of a shadow as psychological antagonist. Discover how to borrow from this early fantasy toolkit to build story architecture and infuse the ordinary with magic.

🧾 Lesson 51: The remnants

Learn what to take—and what to leave—from our secret author. Dodge the sins that dogged his work and kept him from the fame of those who borrowed from him: vague evil, lack of conflict, overwritten poetry, and meandering structure. Track five key elements that make readers care: immersive experience, emotional resonance, moral stakes, complex magical systems, and narrative pace. Score your own story against these benchmarks. Then revise your synopsis with a red pen, deleting anything that doesn’t serve the plot or develop the main character’s moral arc.

The Ninety Day Novel Class

Prepare and develop your initial idea, construct your novel from the ground up, develop a productive writing practice, power through the middle with bold plotting, and raise the stakes toward a satisfying ending.

Lessons: 100 (1 hour each)

6 x writer coaching sessions

Discover the big hack that will change your creative life. Learn the one characteristic great writers need, and the essential ingredient that makes a page-turner. Boost your creativity, and receive guidance on creating the time and mental space to write around your day job.
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✨ Welcome

Set the foundation for writing your novel with some espresso shot to boost your morale and get you in the flow. Kick some old habits with some unusual tips to change your state of mind to one that is positively refreshed and raring to write!

📚 Read and Be Inspired

Read what you want to write! Study first chapters to see how great novels raise questions they later answer. Focus on story over style. Use reading to quell doubt daily, and build your confidence. Keep notes and prepare questions for your coach as your story begins to take shape.

🌙 Bedtime Stories

Reconnect with the books that first stirred a desire to write. Reflect on the emotional imprint of your early reading. Writing begins with that same private charge. Let gratitude, not pressure, guide the work. The impulse to write is your longing to speak across time and space.

🔁 Habits

Design a writing life that fits your real one. Build a simple routine that anchors your writing at a regular time each day. Avoid waiting for inspiration—consistency is the source of creative energy. Frequency matters more than duration.

🧠 The Big Hack

Make a meaningful sacrifice to claim time for writing—something must go. Identify what you’ll give up to honor the work ahead. Interrupt the cycle of perfectionism by writing fast and free. Write by hand in timed sessions to bypass the inner critic. Speed lowers self-consciousness and unlocks voice. Capture raw material first—refinement comes later.

🔒 Privacy

Protect your work from feedback, judgment, or scrutiny while it’s still forming. Keep the process private to preserve freedom and courage. Don’t announce your novel or share early pages. Privacy is the condition for real discovery and risk.

❤️ Empathy

Build a character by stepping inside their experience. Begin with feeling, not facts—let your empathy lead. Treat your character as a mystery to discover, not a device to control. The better you understand their contradictions, the more truthful and compelling your story will be.

🌫️ Moods

Track your emotional state and work with it, not against it. Don’t wait to feel inspired—use your current mood as material. Keep writing through restlessness, boredom, or doubt. Show up. Let the act of writing transform your mood, rather than relying on your mood to begin.

🙏 Bless You, Writers

Recognize that writing has its complexities. You’ll face resistance, loneliness, and self-doubt—but writing is an act of generosity. Honor your need to create, and commit to it. Writing well means living well. Trust the process, protect your spirit, and keep faith with your story.

🧩 What is Story?

A story begins with change. It puts a person in jeopardy. Story is structure—not style—and it must change the character by the end. Plot isn’t decoration; it’s the engine that reveals who your character truly is capable of becoming.

Take it steady with step-by-step guidance to prepare a one-page plan that packs a big plot. Say goodbye to writer’s block. A good story (almost) writes itself, so you and your writing coach will put an exciting storyline in place to get off to a cracking start.
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🧭 Lesson 1: How to stay on track with the course

Use the first 15 days to build your story—alternating between planning and early exploratory writing—before your full draft begins. Stay connected to your writing coach and submit ‘The Plan’ for feedback to keep your story development on track. If you’re rewriting, use this phase to reassess structure and elevate your idea. This is where you build the habit, commit to daily 60-minute writing sessions, and set yourself up to finish a first draft.

📖 Lesson 2: Welcome to your novel

Shape your novel’s premise by crafting a working title, a one-line pitch, and a promise to your reader. Start with something you know or care deeply about, then create distance by shifting time, place, or character to unlock perspective and theme. Identify your protagonist’s flaw and charm, then root your story in the voice and style of books you love. Keep refining the idea daily in your notebook—flipping it, challenging it, adding stakes—until it becomes a story worth the reader’s time.‍

🦸 Lesson 3: The Hero Book

Choose a single Hero Book to guide your novel-writing journey that offers a clear, reliable structure. Read it nightly to internalize its rhythm and shape. This book becomes your technical mentor, helping you solve story problems as you draft. It’s your companion for the next ninety days. Use it to support your structure, voice, and ambition.

⏰ Lesson 4: The golden hour

Build the habit of showing up daily for one hour to keep your novel alive in your subconscious. Even a light touch—reading yesterday’s work or jotting notes—feeds the 23 other hours of reflection that shape the story. Track-laying happens between sessions. Momentum comes from continuity, not volume. One hour is enough.

📚 Lesson 5: The genre

Understand what genre is and how it works. Learn how to use genre to define your story’s territory, structure, and reader promise. Explore examples across fiction to see how genre shapes plot, character, setting, and theme. Begin to identify the genre of your novel to give it coherence and direction.

🏔️ Lesson 6: The setting

Choose a time and place that shapes your characters, plot, and mood. Use setting to generate atmosphere, reveal character, or frame the story’s moral universe. Research real locations or build imagined ones that feel lived-in and essential to the story. For fantasy or sci-fi, create thresholds between worlds and combine the familiar with the strange. Make setting work as metaphor, emotional driver, and lens for your protagonist’s worldview.

🎩 Lesson 7: The magic trick

Build your story’s arc using the three-part structure of The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige. Shape your plot around a character’s transformation—what they want, what they resist, and what they become. Practice illusion through moral change. Sketch a journey that promises real stakes and delivers powerful, surprising resolution.

👤 Lesson 8: The main character

Design a character with a clear flaw, desire, and contradiction. Anchor the plot in their resistance to change. Focus on how they behave under pressure—not backstory, but present struggle. Build empathy by showing what’s at stake for them emotionally. Give them a worldview that will be challenged. Let the story test and transform it.

🧱 Lesson 9: The plot

Start shaping your plot by identifying the problem your main character must face. Learn how to use structure as a flexible guide, not a rigid map, by working back from a possible ending and sketching key complications along the way. Explore the ‘Man in a Hole’ story shape and other narrative trajectories to create emotional movement. Begin using The Plan—your one-page outline—as a working tool that responds to the writing. Focus on pressure, escalation, and change as you throw rocks at your character’s beliefs and force a reckoning.

🪜 Lesson 10: Simple story structure

Learn the foundational two-act structure—problem and solution—anchored by a midpoint that forces transformation. Use The Five Fs® to map your story’s arc: Flaw, False Hope, Flight, Fury, and Facing It. Understand how each stage reveals your character’s blindspot, trials, and growth. Study examples from contemporary fiction to see how this structure builds momentum and resolution. Begin sketching your own Five Fs to shape the outline of your plot, using this framework as a flexible, development-focused tool—not a rule.

🪝 Lesson 11: The hook

Create a sharp, one-sentence pitch that captures your novel’s premise, character, conflict, and stakes. Build it around irony—emotional, moral, or situational—to give the idea lift and twist. Learn the structure of a compelling hook: who it’s about, what they want, what’s in their way, and what’s at risk. Explore techniques from both literary and high-concept fiction, including the ‘X meets Y’ formula and the ‘What if...’ prompt. Use the hook to test your story’s power, motivate your process, and prepare for agent pitches, publisher sales copy, and submission success.

👥 Lesson 12: The cast

Build your cast by splitting your own traits into characters, then widen the net. Use parts of your personality—flaws, strengths, contradictions—to shape your leads. Add figures from your life with a twist: change names, genders, or roles. Invent with feeling, not revenge. Explore the ethics of representation and consider whose story you’re telling. Draw from lived experience or research with care when writing outside your own identity. Finish with a list of characters who offer dramatic potential and truth.

🥸 Lesson 13: Character development

Create credible characters by listing their quirks, flaws, fears, and secrets—then use those to reveal personality through action and dialogue. Skip backstory dumps by knowing each character deeply: their job, income, past loves, relationships, regrets, and what they want. Use a short list of 20 prompts to fast-track this work, unlocking plot and scene ideas as you go. Focus on the top five to ten characters and return to this exercise during slower writing days to keep the work moving. Characters drive story—start drawing them with precision.

🗂️ Lesson 14: Getting organized

Set up your writing environment and tools to keep momentum. Use folders to store drafts, character sheets, and notes. Keep a hard copy of your outline visible. Use your notebook to capture freewriting, ideas, and emotional responses. Track your scenes with a spreadsheet or calendar. Protect time with a daily writing schedule. Build a system that supports consistency and focus. Writing a novel requires discipline—your workspace and tools must help you stay clear, prepared, and committed.

🗺️ Lesson 15: The Plan

Create a one-page snapshot of your story to guide your writing and coaching sessions. Draft your hook, synopsis, theme, and the central question your reader will be reading to answer. Use this live document to shape your plot as you write—updating it often. Submit your Plan at least 24 hours before each session so your coach can track your development and help refine your premise. This working outline will clarify your structure, genre, and goals, becoming the backbone of your novel and a professional tool to move your idea toward publication.

✍️ Lesson 16: Let’s write!

Begin drafting, even if your story feels incomplete. Focus on daily progress—start with 250 words and build gradually. Use your updated Plan weekly to track changes, knowing your plot and character may shift as you write. Don’t share your draft yet. Protect your focus. Show up, write, revise, and keep going.

🧠 Lesson 17: Point of view

Choose between first or third person based on the story’s needs. Learn how first person creates immersion and unreliability—ideal for thrillers and character-led narratives—while third offers distance, breadth, and universality. Understand free indirect speech as a powerful tool to blend close perspective with third-person narration. Try your scene in different POVs to find the best fit.

🗣️ Lesson 18: Voice

Forget finding your voice—focus instead on speaking plainly and truly. Let voice emerge both from how you see the world and how you might address a smarter stranger. Good voice convinces by not trying too hard. Explore examples of relaxed, confident storytelling in action. Avoid fakery or flourish. Use understatement, guilelessness, and humor as your tools. The goal isn’t to impress—it’s to invite the reader in so they forget the writer is there.

🪟 Lesson 19: Chapter one

Learn why first chapters are never final—they’re rewritten dozens of times—and how even great writers fumbled their openings. Discover the importance of setting a calm, confident tone, introducing character and setting and piquing the reader’s curiosity. Focus on what your protagonist wants, hint at what they need, and begin with a grounded moment that reflects your theme. Write 250 relaxed words.

🕸️ Lesson 20: Character mapping

Design each supporting character with a moral arc that affects your protagonist’s development. Map their trajectory—how they change across the story—using simple moral shifts. Ensure each character throws ‘rocks’ at the hero to reveal flaws and create friction. Balance your cast across the moral spectrum and track their influence on the plot. Use The Novelry’s Four Types Method as a tool for close-knit groups. Once you know what each character wants and how they behave, you’re ready to write them scene by scene.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Lesson 21: Relationships

Build a dynamic web of relationships that define your protagonist’s moral arc. Learn to map each character’s role as helper or hinderer, anchoring your story in conflict and desire. Study triangular tensions and push-pull dynamics that generate dramatic momentum. Explore subplots by uncovering hidden motives and unspoken needs. Create a visual character map to clarify narrative pressure points and refine every scene. Let tension between characters shape your story’s energy, movement, and meaning.

👐 Lesson 22: Emotional strategies

Assign each major character a core emotional strategy—how they’ve learned to get love and attention. Choose from four core types: the Savior, the Flower, the Hero, and the Recluse. Observe how this ingrained tactic shapes their relationships, drives their dialogue, and triggers conflict. Use this lens to enrich character interactions, heighten tension, and create psychological credibility. Characters may moderate or switch strategies depending on the scene, but one dominant ploy should underpin each principal’s behavior.

🌳 Lesson 23: The theme

Test every story element—setting, cast, and plot—against a central thematic tension: what argument is the novel making? Explore conflicting values in your characters to dramatize this tension, placing your protagonist at the center of a tug-of-war. Use bold statements like ‘X is more likely than Y’ to guide your choices. Add your working theme to The Plan.

💓 Lesson 24: The heart of a story

Find the emotional truth at the center of your novel—a moment of vulnerability, connection, or personal reckoning that carries moral weight. Begin with a private dedication to someone who embodies what matters most to you. This becomes your compass. Let your heart lead the writing, drawing from love, loss, and care to shape meaning for the reader. Select a guiding quote or song to anchor your intent. When you write from feeling, the reader feels it too. That’s the story’s purpose: to make us care.

🕊️ Lesson 26: The sacrifice

Explore sacrifice as the measure of commitment in story and life. Learn how great stories—from ancient myth to The Alchemist—use sacrifice. Understand its central role in the Hero’s Journey, where the protagonist gives up comfort for a greater purpose. Discipline reveals strength. This lesson invites a deeper connection between writer and story, asking what your characters are willing to lose.

🔨 Lesson 27: A better craftsman

Step back from the page and assess your work. Re-read your recent writing to identify weak scenes, tired phrasing, and moments where plot, dialogue, or tone drift off-course. Revisit your Plan, revise it if the story has shifted, and tighten your cast’s motivations. Root out clichés. End each chapter with a tease. Let the prose be plain to support the story’s truth. Shape your material—but don’t overwork it. Today, write as an editor.

🖼️ Lesson 28: The big picture

Visualize your story as a sequence of six turning-point scenes, using cinematic techniques to clarify structure and momentum. Identify your protagonist, goal, antagonistic force, and stakes. Then build a visual storyboard using notecards or tools like Canva to map transitions and flesh out scenes. Each location must earn its place.

🎬 Lesson 29: Happy writing

Learn how to work through self-doubt, navigate real-life interruptions, and make meaningful progress scene by scene. Discover proven mindset strategies from working writers—including how to embrace the rhythms of good and bad writing days, stay grounded in real life, and use your Hero Book to problem-solve at night. Leave the desk on time, avoid early fiddling, and trust the day-to-day process.

🧮 Lesson 30: Taking stock

Pause to review progress before moving to the next phase. Use the stocktaking spreadsheet to chart chapter-by-chapter word counts, setbacks, and lessons learned. Update The Plan as needed and reflect on how far you’ve come. If you feel off-track, schedule time with your coach. Whether slow or fast, the point is to keep going. This is a victory lap before the next leg: The Swim.

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🏊‍♂️ Lesson 31: In the swim

Enter the Swim Phase—a shift from story set-up to story flow. Revisit the simple five-part structure to sketch out the story shape without over-planning. Learn how Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in just four weeks using ‘The Crash’: a self-imposed writing lockdown focused on output, not polish. Learn how compulsion drives story. When a character wants something intensely, the novel almost writes itself. This phase is about rhythm, grace, and pace. Begin writing forward with daily momentum and character-led intent.

🧭 Lesson 32: Moral range

Explore your protagonist’s capacity for action under pressure by mapping their moral range. Define what they can and can’t do, and identify the lie they live by that distorts their worldview. Use this to create tension scene by scene—especially as the story shifts from old world to new. Know when to press the button—what they’ll do when cornered—to drive story turns and deepen emotional impact.

🔥 Lesson 33: Compulsion

Pinpoint your main character’s compulsion—the hidden need that drives their actions, blinds them to truth, and fuels the story’s engine. Learn how desire, denial, and delusion work together to create narrative drive. Explore how this inner hunger creates moral tension and raises stakes. Repressed or transgressive compulsions create page-turning drama. Use moral range and inner conflict to expose the character’s organizing myth and push the story toward revelation, transformation, or downfall.

🎭 Lesson 34: Conflict

Build conflict that reveals theme. Let your protagonist and antagonist pull from opposite ends of a moral or emotional spectrum. Use tension to test values, surface hidden agendas, and create moments of rupture that shape character and story. Design the moment of greatest conflict so that it dramatizes the central question of your novel and forces change.

🪄 Lesson 35: From magic to mystery

Let the mystery deepen as your draft develops. Shift from plotting answers to posing questions—what the reader is reading to find out, and what you’re writing to discover. Use the one-page plan to hold structure lightly while staying open to surprise. At the two-thirds mark, allow meaning to emerge—private, profound, and unspeakable. Write to learn what haunts you. Let mystery drive the story forward.‍

📚 Lesson 36: How to write a cult classic

Borrow Jack Kerouac’s methods to create immersive, character-led fiction with lasting impact. Study his use of real people, not types, and mimic his overfamiliarity, fast prose, and vivid detail to convey immediacy. Learn to write with pace and presence—using observation over exposition—to give the illusion of spontaneity. Use these techniques to produce bold, idiosyncratic work.

🎭 Lesson 37: A real dream

Master the technique of ‘show, don’t tell’ by using concrete sensory detail and true-to-life dialogue to immerse the reader. Learn how to build scenes that feel vivid while still knowing when to step in and tell. Explore how Kerouac’s prose reveals the power of language to reflect emotion, and where pure ‘showing’ can fail.

🫂 Lesson 38: Assumed familiarity

Learn how assumed familiarity can immerse the reader instantly—bringing characters to life without formal introduction. Study how Kerouac uses eccentricity, catchphrases, and vivid, selective detail to distinguish a large cast. Use tics, colorful backstories, and out-of-type traits to avoid stereotypes and animate even minor characters in a few bold strokes.

👑 Lesson 39: The romantic imagination

Explore how the author Muriel Spark used fiction to exalt the romantic imagination over realism, building an authorial approach of taste, sensibility, and theme. Learn how to channel your own aesthetic convictions into character and story, free from convention. Discover how to make the uncommon feel true, how to embed meaning through voice and tone, and how to use fiction to reframe reality.

🔁 Lesson 40: The use of repetition

Use repetition to build intimacy with economy. Establish character through repeated phrases or gestures. Repetition keeps the reader’s eye on the cast while you advance theme. Deploy signature catchphrases that echo the novel’s central question, like a red ball bouncing across the story. Don’t repeat themes directly—repeat character affectations. Later, in the edit, you will trace this coded pattern through every page to sharpen focus and create a story that keeps readers turning pages.‍

♻️ Lesson 41: Redemption

Explore how great fiction offers moral restoration—not through absolution, but through affection and time. Learn how to use the redemptive arc to shift your character from what they want to what they need. Study the technique of flash-forward to deliver a sense of earned perspective. Redemption can be quiet or spiritual, structural or thematic. Understand how even flawed characters can be forgiven, and why good writing must grapple with grace.

🥛 Lesson 42: Keep it simple

Streamline your story by asking: whose story is this, what do they learn, and how do they change? Reduce characters, settings, and complications that aren’t essential. Troubleshoot problems like weak conflict or a protagonist too close to yourself. Use quick fixes—change gender, background, or name—to create distance. Anchor the plot in present conflict, not backstory. The goal: a clean, energetic through line.

✂️ Lesson 43: Overwriting

Learn how to cut overwriting before it sabotages your story. This lesson shows how bloated prose—didactic tangents, tired set pieces, excess emotion, and decorative adverbs—slows your pace and distances readers. Study examples from Hemingway, Baldwin, Morrison, and Walker to see how great writers use restraint. Apply three core techniques: trim adjectives and adverbs, reduce description to pinpointed detail, and shorten sentence length. Good writing leaves space for the reader.‍

✍️ Lesson 44: Becoming an author

Start working like a professional preparing for publication. Learn how to format your manuscript correctly—spacing, punctuation, paragraphing, and chapter layout all contribute to how the reader receives your work. Adopt a consistent file naming system, save drafts daily. Use a clean, conservative layout to earn trust before your story delivers the surprises. This lesson sets the standards that separate the aspiring writer from the working author.

📍 Lesson 45: The midpoint

Pinpoint the exact moment when your character can no longer go back—the midpoint of the novel. Identify the event or crisis that forces a shift in strategy, where their old ways fail and a new outlook begins. Show how they absorb qualities of their antagonist, confront hard truths, and begin their transformation. Update The Plan with this turning point, anchoring it in theme and character arc. This lesson crystallizes your story’s change trajectory—what they wanted was wrong; now it’s time to fight for what they need.

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🎵 Lesson 46: Music

Use music as a tool to charge the energy and rhythm of your writing. This lesson introduces a new creative phase—The Heat Phase—focused on boosting pace. Learn how instrumental music can lift your prose and how lyric-driven tracks can teach economy. By the end, you’ll build a writing practice rooted in pace and feeling.‍

🔥 Lesson 47: From What If to Why?

Shift the driving question of your novel from ‘What if?’ to ‘Why?’ to deepen plot and character. Refine the core reader question using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—starting from physical survival and safety to love, esteem, and purpose. Study how bestselling novels sustain tension through a single, evolving question. Use your character’s willful refusal to meet basic needs to create dramatic intrigue. Craft a story that plays on human behavior, digging into what your character won’t do—and why. A great novel hinges on one bold, burning question.

🧵 Lesson 48: The B Story

Construct a subplot that amplifies your novel’s theme and throws the main character’s journey into sharper relief. This secondary storyline should represent the opposite value system or outcome—embodied by a standout secondary character—and bring it into conflict with the ‘A’ plot. Study how published novels use B Stories to heighten stakes and expose the moral consequences of your protagonist’s choices. Decide where this subplot will peak, ensuring it helps your hero reject the extreme and claim their own way forward.

🤥 Lesson 49: The lie

Find your novel’s core message by identifying the lie it reveals. Lies generate conflict, fuel suspense, and distort desire—whether personal, political, or cultural. Use examples from Orwell, Du Maurier, and Coetzee to examine how theme emerges when falsehood is exposed. Reframe character motivation by showing what they believe that isn’t true, and structure your novel as a journey from illusion to truth. Learn how to embed the lie in dialogue, catchphrases, and chapter turns to heighten dramatic stakes.

🧌 Lesson 50: I’m a creep

Use your shadow self to unlock honesty in your writing. Identify your flaws, contradictions, and moral complexities. Practice observing your darkest instincts, then shape them into your protagonist’s turning point. Keep a visible list of problems as they arise in your draft; naming them unlocks solutions. Learn to slow narrative time around self-revelation moments, as Colm Tóibín does, to give moral insight weight and emotional clarity.

😨 Lesson 51: Suspense

Build suspense by withholding information and creating unease. Study how Rebecca and In a Dark, Dark Wood use repetition, contradiction, and delay to disorient and tease the reader. Use short chapters, flashbacks, and emotionally charged contrasts—hot/cold, light/dark—to keep tension rising. Assign a ‘trigger word’ to each chapter and increase its danger over time. Withhold answers until after the midpoint, when the worst thing must happen. Suspense is built on uncertainty—what the reader fears is more powerful than what they know.‍

🔧 Lesson 52: Make it harder

Raise the stakes. Impose constraints to sharpen your writing: shorten chapters, limit word counts, or apply a ticking clock. Increase external pressure on your main character—cut resources, add danger, create urgency. Tight structure boosts pace, and hard limits force invention. The harder the context, the more potent the message.‍

💬 Lesson 53: Crackling conversations

Write dialogue that feels alive and loaded with intent. Learn how to craft character agendas, cut exposition, and leave space for subtext. Discover how to avoid dull ‘ping-pong’ exchanges and use silence, refusal, or abrupt exits for tension. Explore why contractions, clipped speech, and differentiated voices make dialogue real. Master clean tags, minimal adverbs, and active scenes that reveal character beneath the lines. This is where dialogue starts doing real narrative work.‍

🧠 Lesson 54: That’s peculiar!

Learn how to write with dissonance—deliberately placing details that don’t fit. Study the masters of the short form, like Chekhov, Carver, and Hemingway, to sharpen your ability to show what jars instead of what explains. Use visual discord to jolt your reader’s perception and invite emotional depth without melodrama. Highlight sensory oddities and peculiarities that spark vivid immersion. Choose standout details that linger in the mind. Let your prose be unexpected, strange, and true.‍

🎵 Lesson 55: The leitmotif

Discover how a light recurring detail—like a phrase, image, or object—can build continuity, add depth, and create intimacy between writer and reader. Explore the difference between heavy-handed symbols and subtle echoes that function like a shared in-joke or chorus. With examples from Vonnegut, Kundera, and Forster, learn how to thread a small motif through your novel to highlight emotional themes, mark time, and anchor meaning without exposition.

🐇 Lesson 56: The absurd

Introduce the irrational into your novel to deepen realism and resonance. Draw from Camus, Kafka, and Vonnegut to explore characters in conflict with a meaningless world. Use contradiction, bathos, and surreal events to mirror existential truths. Give characters odd behaviors or false beliefs and unlock humor in tragedy. Absurdity lets your story bypass logic to process pain. Add a comic wrong note! Let the bizarre do the lifting.

✒️ Lesson 57: The full stop. Period.

You will study Raymond Carver’s radical economy of style to understand the emotional power of clean, unadorned prose. Learn how to end scenes and chapters with impact using the ‘dying fall’—a literary technique that creates an introspective pause in the reader. Use punctuation, silence, and space to invite the reader in. Then stop. Let them think.

🍋 Lesson 58: Backstory

Minimize backstory to keep momentum and preserve immersion. Avoid explanatory digressions and let the present action reveal character and history. If background must be included, use it sparingly, incompletely, and only when it advances the story. Prioritize mystery, pacing, and sensory detail over explanation. Draft a private inventory of essential backstory in your notebook—then leave it out.

🔀 Lesson 59: Transitions

Learn how to shift between timelines or perspectives while maintaining the progress of the story. Structure each timeline to serve the story and anchor transitions with mirrored images or echoed prose. Study structural examples—from Slaughterhouse-Five to Revolutionary Road—to master seamless cuts and purposeful contrast. Build dual narratives that interact meaningfully. Whether alternating chapters or blending timelines inside scenes, use each shift to reveal character truth and deepen the theme. Transitions must feel inevitable, not mechanical.‍

🏅 Lesson 60: The prize

Consider what success means for you and this story. Visualize the prize—awards, impact, personal fulfillment—and use that vision to fuel your writing. But weigh it against the price: solitude, vulnerability, and the need for validation. Don’t show or share your draft yet. Keep your vision intact and stay focused on momentum. Book a coaching session. Let the writing be its own reward.‍

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🧘‍♂️ Lesson 61: Mastery

Enter The Enlightenment Phase by studying a master at work—Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee. His novel Disgrace becomes your blueprint for serious fiction. Embrace slow, scrutinized craft. Discover moral sleight of hand, structural control, and linguistic precision. Learn how personal wreckage becomes literary gold. Through his example, start to treat your fiction as both the lighthouse and the rock using exposure, self-revelation, and sacrifice.‍

🤯 Lesson 62: Difficult questions

Learn from the painstaking process of J.M. Coetzee to embrace uncertainty. Discover how doubt, revision, and slow accumulation work for your craft. Writing isn’t about having answers—it’s about asking hard questions. Use notebooks to track your progress, explore your insecurities, and gather material.

🔪 Lesson 63: Self-destruction

J.M. Coetzee strips identity to its core in Disgrace, creating fiction through radical self-erasure. Explore the relationship between self-sacrifice and narrative power, where character and author collide in philosophical confrontation. See how the writing becomes an ethical act—an unflinching confrontation with shame. Writing at this level demands internal conflict. By witnessing Coetzee’s willingness to burn down the house of self, understand how fiction can become an act of creative destruction—yielding a story of brutal grace.‍

🏷️ Lesson 64: The title

Explore how a novel’s title encapsulates its magic, the agent of change. Study examples from literature that use eponym, image, juxtaposition, or reference. Test titles against your story’s meaning and evolution. Use this lesson to begin generating titles that capture the premise of your story at its core.‍

🩸 Lesson 65: The wound

Explore how personal loss fuels fiction. A wound—both authorial and fictional—drives a character’s compulsion. Understand how to write from suffering without sentimentality. Use this lesson to identify the wound in your own story and main character, to give your novel emotional integrity and transformative powers.

🌉 Lesson 66: The bridge

Revisit your opening sentence as your draft progresses—it should beckon the story’s end. Use your first line to seed paradox, establish theme, and set the reader’s expectations. Track how character and language evolve through re-drafts. Write a ten-word sentence that captures your protagonist’s dilemma.‍

👣 Lesson 67: Back and forth process

Embrace the messy motion of drafting—give yourself to the writing, then step back to question and refine. This lesson draws from J.M. Coetzee’s 17 drafts of Disgrace to show how great work emerges from doubt, persistence, and craft. Learn to navigate the discomfort of not knowing, and trust that taste and judgment are sharpened by failure. Use the first draft to explore freely—there’s time to look smart later.

⏳ Lesson 68: Present tension

Explore the dramatic force of the present tense. Learn how it creates instability, complicity, and immediacy by removing the safety of hindsight. Through examples like Disgrace and The Color Purple, see how present-tense narration drives moral urgency and places the reader inside the character’s crisis. If your prose feels flat, consider testing a tense change—even late in draft one. ‍

💻 Lesson 69: Poet and programmer

Write sentence by sentence with the dual precision of a programmer and the emotional depth of a poet. See how structure emerges from theme, and how rhythm becomes a literary device. Discover how prose can carry musicality, and how writing becomes a form of self-navigation. Build meaning and movement, advancing line by line, like code.‍

🕰️ Lesson 70: The chapter outline

Create a working chapter-by-chapter outline to clarify the structure and pacing of your novel. Use it to map intentions, identify gaps, and simplify where needed. Study Coetzee’s Disgrace for a model of formal, purpose-driven structure: 24 chapters, each self-contained, each building tension and meaning. Focus on progression and economy—state your purpose, fulfill it, and move on. Use the outline to track your story’s momentum and ensure every chapter earns its place.‍

🌿 Lesson 71: Let them live

Free your main character from backstory and let them step forward. The best characters contradict their traits, hold true and false beliefs, and surprise both writer and reader. Write with paradox. Leave room for ambiguity at the end, allowing your novel to cast a longer shadow.‍

🎭 Lesson 72: The point of tragedy

Examine how tragedy operates as a vehicle for truth. Learn Aristotle’s three essential components—hamartia, peripeteia, and anagnorisis. Understand how tragedy evokes catharsis, forces reckoning, and offers the writer a deeper path to meaning. Study the five-stage structure of tragic narrative. Discover how writing reveals what you want to say—and how tragedy delivers truth through emotional disasters.

💖 Lesson 73: What is good?

Explore how great fiction transcends simple notions of good and bad to confront moral ambiguity. Using Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, learn how visionary states like hypnagogia deepen your protagonist’s self-awareness and enrich narrative meaning. Trace David Lurie’s arc from egotism to humility, observing how memory, vision, and anagnorisis (tragic recognition) shape his internal reckoning. Discover how grace—not goodness—offers the novelist a more radical aim.‍

❓ Lesson 74: The big question

Refine the question driving your story by identifying what the reader is reading to find out—whether it’s whodunnit, will they get the prize, or who is this person really? Study how this central question can shift mid-novel, as in The Talented Mr. Ripley or Disgrace, evolving as character, setting, or theme develops. Use the question as both narrative engine and moral lens. Establish it clearly, revisit it often, and make it deliver personal transformation for both character and reader.

📘 Lesson 75: The story so far

Review the full arc of your novel and draft a working synopsis that captures your story’s potential without getting bogged down in imperfections. Use this moment to regain purpose and re-engage with your characters’ journey. If needed, book a coaching session and update The Plan. This is your opportunity to reframe the work, strengthen the through line, and prepare to carry the story forward to the end.

Combine the key elements of storytelling and see theme, character, dramatic irony, narrative arc, and subplots working in harmony for a satisfying ending. Get advice on taking this draft to publishing standards. And then celebrate! You’ll have a manuscript in your hands and a story readers will love.
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🏠 Lesson 76: Welcome home

Review the final structure and make adjustments to ensure the story is sound and grounded. Contrast your main character’s initial façade with their new self to clarify the novel’s arc. Use dream imagery and metaphor to explore how personal symbols, memories, and meaning can enrich your story. Prepare a sketch of the ending. Use the subconscious signals—night thoughts and dreams—that will now help finish what you’ve built. The home stretch begins here.‍

🪜 Lesson 77: Let’s build

Assign your existing chapters to the Five Fs framework rooted in classical tragic structure. Use this scaffolding to make sense of your draft and prepare it for a strong finish. Reorder material, if needed, to clarify escalation and transformation. Whether your chapters are short or long, give each a place in this sequence. Begin shaping your ending. This final phase is about making the book inhabitable—for you and your reader.

🏛️ Lesson 78: The house of magic

Use music and hypnagogic recall to explore each emotional stage of the story as a space: a messy front room, a closed bedroom, a blocked escape, a chaotic kitchen, and a bathroom of reckoning. Revise your Plan and schedule a coaching session to align story shape and character change as you approach the ending.

🛁 Lesson 79: The rooms

Plan your chapters as spaces within the larger structure of the house of your novel. Avoid episodic drift by ensuring that every chapter flows naturally from the last. Cut anything that doesn’t build both the psychological interior and action-oriented exterior.‍

🎨 Lesson 80: Interior style

Raise the standard of your writing by setting a higher bar for every sentence. Evaluate every line: is it necessary, true, distinctive? Create contrast: plain-speaking can sharpen the impact of strangeness. Build toward beauty and power by making each sentence count.

🏺 Lesson 81: Ornaments

Lend your novel the personal, the things that bring you comfort and joy—objects, sounds, and memories that mean something you. Scatter these ‘ornaments’ through your characters’ homes, names, and dialogue to build a world that feels lived-in. Choose names with meaning, add leitmotifs with private significance, and shape a place rich with emotional texture.

🧳 Lesson 82: The attic

Learn how to use memory as a narrative space distinct from backstory—the ‘attic.’ This is where you and your main character explore forgotten emotions and formative impressions. Use this mental storehouse to create atmospheric revelations that unfold in real time. The attic holds what’s unsaid. Return to it in moments of reckoning or reflection, and draw from its contents to deepen intimacy in pivotal scenes.‍

🧼 Lesson 83: Housekeeping

Expect messy days—when life disruptions knock you off track. Learn how to recover from derailment without spiraling. Use your notebook to make quick notes instead of forcing bad writing. Trust your original Plan and cut what doesn’t serve. Avoid writing about real-life grudges—they destabilize tone. Prioritize stability, repetition, and time over novelty. Build a quiet, protective routine around your process. Keep the novel safe, warm, and clean from inner sabotage.‍

🛏️ Lesson 84: And so to bed

Craft an ending that opens, rather than closes, a window. Examine famous last lines that spark mystery, and understand how a question (rather than plot closure) becomes your final gesture. This lesson encourages a subtle tying of threads, not a tidy bow—space for reflection and peace for the protagonist. Reflect on your own season as a writer, and let the novel go when the ideas stop coming. Complete your draft knowing it’s whole—for now.

🪑 Lesson 85: Home alone

Writing reveals more than it tells—what you’ve put on the page may expose more of you than intended, even behind fictional distance. Don’t seek outside opinions yet. Stay inside the work. Keep the mystery intact. Discover what this draft says about you, and decide how far into yourself you’ve truly gone. Resist the urge to share. The story has found its voice—and you may need to sit with it.‍

🚑 Lesson 86: First aid kit

Receive your collection of best writing tips from master writers. Use these as a personal survival guide for when the doubt creeps in. Explore the complete set of insights from published authors at The Novelry. Discover what they unanimously agree matters most. This lesson is a writer’s emergency kit for staying the course and finishing strong.‍

🏁 Lesson 87: Leaving home

Pause before editing. Set the manuscript aside for at least a month to gain the distance required for ruthless revision. Use that space to sharpen your judgment, stay curious, and strengthen insight. Then, revise with attention to your novel’s opening. Is the dilemma clear? Is the compulsion strong? Does it reflect the theme and arc? Make sure the story arises from character, offers transformation, and delivers what the reader needs.

📔 Lesson 88: The second draft

Step back for a month before beginning your second draft. Use the break to read recent novels in your genre, experiment with ‘sideways writing,’ and sharpen your hook. Revisit your story with distance, ready to reshape it with clear eyes. Draft a revision plan—consider chapter structure, themes, and stakes. Prepare for The Big Edit, where you’ll receive expert editorial support to transform your draft into a submission-ready novel. ‍

🏆 Lesson 89: Success

Define success on your own terms before seeking it in publishing. Discover how to stay grounded through setbacks, resist the lure of fame, and preserve your joy in writing. Learn to process rejection without ego, and build resilience with humility and kindness. Find inspiration in James Baldwin’s philosophy. Prepare for revision with The Big Edit and know that real success lies in loving the life and work of a writer—and you’ve got that, and a killer process, in the bag!‍

🎉 Lesson 90: Congratulations!

Celebrate! You’ve built the habit, learned the craft, and shaped a novel only you could write. Acknowledge the discipline it took to get here. Download your certificate, share the news, and put your feet up. This milestone is now a happy and significant moment in your new life as a writer, writing.

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Authors mentioned in the course include: Jane Austen, Donna Tartt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, Gillian Flynn, George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, Shirley Jackson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rachel Cusk, Sally Rooney, Ian McEwan, Emily Brontë, Zadie Smith, Toni Morrison, Jean Rhys, Carson McCullers, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway.

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A publishing industry tastemaker with years of experience. Dhonielle Clayton is a New York Times bestselling author, story proliferator, and the board chair of We Need Diverse Books.

Lesley Kara

Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon No.1 internationally bestselling author of psychological thrillers including The Rumor.

Piers Torday

Bestselling author of multiple middle-grade books for children, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize winner The Dark Wild.

Clare Mackintosh

New York Times and Sunday Times number 1 bestselling crime author, notably I Let You Go, selling more than 3m copies.

L.R. Lam

Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction, notably Seven Devils and Dragonfall, a Barnes & Noble monthly pick.

Bea Fitzgerald

Sunday Times bestselling author of YA romantasy and adult thriller, including the RNA Romance Novel of the Year, Girl, Goddess, Queen.

Emylia Hall

Top Ten bestselling author of cozy crime, notably The Shell House Detectives series, and women’s fiction including The Book of Summers, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick.

Urban Waite

The Esquire Best Book of the Year winner, multiple award-nominated author of The Terror of Living, highly praised by Stephen King and published in over 40 countries.

Tasha Suri

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, author of The Jasmine Throne and Empire of Sand, one of TIME magazine’s best fantasy novels of all time.

Colleen Oakley

USA Today bestselling author of 5 novels including The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, translated into 21 languages, and Georgia Author of the Year.

Kate Dylan

Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction novels for both YA and adult, including Mindwalker, one of Kirkus’s best YA books of the year, and Until We Shatter.

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Anissa Gray

New York Times acclaimed author of contemporary fiction novels including The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, a Marie Claire Book Club Pick optioned by Sony Pictures, and a DuPont and Emmy award-winning journalist.

Gina Sorell

‍New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and acclaimed contemporary fiction author of The Wise Women, a People Magazine Best New Book Pick.

Kate Riordan

Sunday Times bestselling author of contemporary thrillers published by Penguin, including The Heatwave, an Apple Fiction Chart No.1. fiction bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick.

Heather Webb

USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction and Goldsboro RNA Award finalist, translated into 17 languages, notably Meet Me in Monaco and Rodin’s Lover, a Goodreads Top Pick.

Melanie Conklin

Award-winning author of children’s middle-grade fiction, notably Counting Thyme, winner of the International Literacy Association Teacher’s Choice Award and the Nerdy Book Award.

Alice Kuipers

Carnegie medal nominee and winner of the Grand Prix de Viarmes, author of YA, children’s fiction, and memoir, including Life on the Refrigerator Door, a New York Times Book for Teens.

Kate Davies

The Polari Prize-winning author of In at the Deep End and Nuclear Family, The Times book of the year. Kate writes contemporary fiction and children’s fiction.

Sarah Turner

Multiple Sunday Times bestselling author of Up Lit, witty contemporary fiction, and parenting diaries.

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Libby Page

Sunday Times bestselling author of Up Lit novels including The Lido (USA: Mornings with Rosemary), winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award.

Katie Khan

RNA Romance Novel of the Year finalist and author of Hold Back the Stars, praised by Matt Haig, translated into 20 languages and optioned for film by the producers of Stranger Things.

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Amanda Reynolds

The number 1 bestselling author of suspense novels including Close To Me, adapted for television by Channel 4.

Mahsuda Snaith

An Observer New Face of Fiction and Costa Book Awards judge, the award-winning author of The Things We Thought We Knew, a World Book Night title, and How to Find Home, a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.

Ella McLeod

The Branford Boase-nominated author of YA fiction and romantasy, including Guardian Best Books Pick The Map That Led to You.

David Solomons

Winner of Waterstones Children’s Prize and author of acclaimed middle-grade children’s novel My Brother is a Superhero, the British Book Industry Awards Children’s Book of the Year.

Katalina Watt

Royal Society of Literature Awardee, UNESCO Writer in Residence, and Hugo Award finalist with a decade of experience in the book industry.

Kickstarting a writing career

‘The Novelry has given me the structure and guidance I needed to finally write a novel, and an understanding of the long road of novel-writing. Even more importantly, it’s provided an incredible community of writers and tutors who I feel constantly connected with, so the process isn’t so lonely. I love this community!’

Nisha Ligon

Success Stories

The Novel Kickstarter Course

Progress at your own pace

Course and community access for an entire year.

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Your success, on your terms. Always.

This is a self-paced class; you drive the development of your story. You have immediate access to all lessons. The tempo of the march is yours to decide.

You’ll need 30 minutes for each lesson, and probably some time to capture your thoughts and ideas as you start writing.

We recommend setting aside an hour a day just for you and your writing, and you’ll soon come to love this special pocket of escapism.

But if time is tight and life is getting in the way, never fear. There are 150 lessons in total, and 365 days to do them.

Stay a little longer

Life. It happens to the best of us.

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A good story will wait

You have 365 days’ access to the course. But don’t worry if you need to stop writing for a while.

You can easily extend your access beyond your year, or stay on as a member with access to the workshops and community for just $29.99 (or £24.99) a month or $299 (or £249) a year.

You’ll have a writing plan all signed off by our team which acts as a map for you to find your way back home to your story.

And your writing coach will be ready to get you back on track with a working reboot session.

Money-back policy

Our Happy Writing guarantee.

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Time to check it’s right for you

We maintain a happy and supportive community for all of our writers. So, we offer a 7-day money-back Happy Writing Guarantee for all our classes and courses, should you change your mind.

Write with the best in the business

Award-winning authors. Publishing editors. Leading literary agents.

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Coaches not lecturers

Many online writing programs promote ‘featured’ videos of one or two big-name stars. And you sit, you watch, you learn. Passively.

Here at The Novelry, our online writing classes and courses come with a team of writer all-stars built right in. They’re part of the furniture around our happy writing home. You’ll run into them in the virtual halls of The Novelry, in your personal coaching sessions, and week in, week out at workshops or in your online community.

We’re talking stars whose books have hit the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists, and have been adapted for screen and optioned for major motion pictures.

Writing stars who work with you, not lecture at you.

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60+ workshops a month

In addition to your class.

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Write in good company

Guided, group-based workshops with fellow writers, bestselling authors, and publishing professionals. Offered live online, but also recorded, so you can easily catch up if you miss one.

You’ll get advice and writing prompts, genre-specific challenges, and exercises to help you develop your writing and deepen your craft. And of course, you’ll have a community of like-minded spirits, cheering you on as you reach each milestone on your journey.

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Genre expertise

What’s your style?

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‘Outstanding genre-specific workshops!’

—April Love-Fordham

You may be burning to write a thriller, yearning to capture a romance, or scoping out the near-future world of a science fiction story.

Maybe you’re yet to discover your type. Perhaps you’re between genres right now.

Any which way, this course will help you put your story on steroids. You can choose your author coach based on their expertise, and our genre-specific workshops are in a league of their own.

Video masterclasses

From the likes of Kristin Hannah and Yann Martel.

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Catch Up TV for storytellers

(Binge-watch the series.)

Over 100 classes with famous bestselling writers, publishing experts, and leading literary agents for you to explore in your own time.

Find out how your best-loved authors (really) write their books, from Tess Gerritsen, Paula Hawkins, Sophie Kinsella, and Val McDermid to Lucy Foley, Katherine Rundell, Samantha Shannon, Steven Erikson, and (so) many more.

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A supportive writing community

Find your people.

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Come for the course. Stay for the people.

We’re the largest online writing community exclusively for novelists and memoir writers. This group offers you a safe space to share the ins and outs and ups and downs of the creative life.

It’s ad-free and bound by the terms of confidentiality, allowing you to be yourself as a writer among industry professionals, trusted new friends, and like-minded people.

What’s more, our annual U.S. and U.K. parties and networking events offer the perfect opportunity to mingle and celebrate your work. Cheers to that!

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Than any other writing course. The Novelry is the world’s top-rated online writing school.

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We’re the home of happy writing

When choosing your writing course, always make sure to look for these things:

Independent rave reviews from real people giving their names.
Writing coaches who are award-winning and bestselling published authors.
One-on-one, personalized instruction focused on what you need.
A professional path to getting published with links to a range of literary agencies.
An inspiring writers’ group with a kind and encouraging ethos.

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Flexible pricing

Pay up front or monthly.

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Payment options

Feel free to select an installment payment option to spread the cost.

Save money with the single payment option for our combined courses. (When you combine classes with a course plan you save money on the cost of the individual classes.)

For the very best value, our most popular choice is The Finished Novel Course.

Created by a Booker Prize-listed author

We don’t just talk the talk.

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‘Louise Dean is a significant voice in fiction’

—The Observer

When it comes to writing, and writing success, Founder and Course Director Louise Dean knows a thing or two about a thing or two.

Booker Prize-listed, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Le Prince Maurice Prize, finalist for the Costa Coffee 2020 Short Story Award, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award, and nominated for the Guardian First Book Prize (among others), Louise has earned plaudits from the Nobel Laureate for Literature, no less. Her books have been praised by the New York Times, the Guardian, the Observer, and the Sunday Times.

Louise shares her (award-winning) wordsmithery secrets in the courses and classes and draws on a lifetime and love of reading fiction and the techniques of the greats.

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Better value than a university course

With a practical outcome.

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At a fraction of the price

Storytelling success lies at the very heart of becoming a published author, and we have engineered our program to give you a head start.

Our approach is both practical and a whole lot of fun. The Novelry has been described by members as ‘like Hogwarts for writers.’

You’ll enjoy a university-type experience in terms of making new student friends but you’ll be learning from brilliant working authors and editors, not academics.

When you join us, you are taking a journey not just to get a bunch of letters after your name, but to hold a first draft manuscript in your hands. In just a year or less. We move at your pace and our focus is on you.

We’re trusted by the world’s leading literary agents, and our graduates go on to secure major contracts from Big Five publishers in the U.S.A., the U.K., and worldwide.

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‘I’m feeling positive, creative, and motivated’

‘I’ve wanted to write a novel for decades, and this course has given me all the tools I need to move ahead. I’m feeling positive, creative, and motivated. I still have times of doubt, but I know I can do this!’

Laura Grove

‘The Novelry ticked all the boxes in my writing course wish list’

‘The Novelry ticked all the boxes in my writing course wish list and has been the most positive and enjoyable experience. It really made me feel like getting a novel written, and even published, isn’t just a pipe dream—it could actually happen.’

Maria Bayliss

‘If you want to tell a story, get yourself to The Novelry’

‘If you want to tell a story, get yourself to The Novelry. I have taken from this course a sense of peace, pride, and excitement. I have a story worth telling and the support and resources to see it take shape.’

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‘The Novelry helped me show up for myself’

‘Dedicating time to writing has been so fulfilling. Why didn’t I start earlier? The Novelry helped me show up for myself. I’ve gained a lot of confidence, and I’m using that momentum to take a leap into the future I want.’

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‘I’m so glad I chose The Novelry’

‘All the lessons seemed to come at exactly the right time for me. Though I wrote alone, I was never lost or lonely. When I needed support, I got it. I’m so glad I chose The Novelry.’

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FAQs

If you’re bursting with questions we haven’t answered here, check out our full FAQs page or feel free to get in touch.

Why do your creative writing courses start here?

Writing a novel is not so much about the writing, or at least not in the way you think. Nobody ever stayed glued to a book for the complexity of its vocabulary.

Writing is about storytelling, and readers and publishers alike want great stories. And here’s a secret—storytelling can be learned. Hey, guess what, you might just be very good at it. Why not find out?

Writing is not a God-given gift or innate talent. It’s not something you are born with, or can or can’t do. It’s something you learn, because you want to learn it.

Sure, you’re going to need to read some books. And here’s another secret. Writers learn from other writers. Just like with any craft or trade, they take apprenticeships or courses and work with published writers.

The story doesn’t happen to you, you happen to the story.

You don’t need to be wise and have all the answers. Stories are about questions. One question after another. What happens next? Why did she do that? What will he do to escape? How come there’s no door to the house? Will they work out that guy’s a villain?

We’ll get you asking the right questions, in the right order, to invite your reader into your wonderful world.

How do I choose my writing coach?

You can browse our writing coaches and find the author you would most like to work with, then book your coaching session from your Library.

You may wish to book with an author experienced in the genre you are writing.

Another great way to consider who you want to write with is to take a peek inside the first pages of their published books on Amazon and see whose writing style appeals to you most strongly.

The wonderful thing about The Novelry is that you can work with the writing coach of your choice but also book sessions with any other writing coach whenever you wish. So if things change for your story, say you swap genre, or need more help on specialist technical matters from another coach, we’ve got you covered.

Do you offer a money-back guarantee?

Yes, we are all for Happy Writing. You can review our terms and conditions here. If, for any reason at all, the course is not for you, you can get a full no-questions-asked refund within the first seven days after purchase. Just email us and let us know.

‘The coaching sessions were the best’

‘I have a first draft! I wasn’t sure I could make the jump from non-fiction to fiction. It feels like so much has changed in doing the course that I can barely remember the before. All of the lessons seemed to come at exactly the right time for me. When I needed support, I got it. The coaching sessions were the best. I am so glad that I chose The Novelry. The lessons are like spices for the experience—some new, some comforting, some exotic —that allowed me to really savor the experience of writing a first draft. Though I wrote alone, I was never lost or lonely.’

Maggie Huffman

From an idea to a complete first draft

Reasons not to take the first steps on a big adventure

But I don’t have the time!

But I don’t have a story!

But I’m not sure I have any talent!

The Novel Kickstarter Course

The Classic Storytelling Class

Find the Idea

Once Upon a Time

The Process

World-building

Heroes and Villains

The Reader

The Author

Farewell

The Ninety Day Novel Class

The Inspiration and Preparation Phase

The Construction Phase

The Swim Phase

The Heat Phase

The Enlightenment Phase

The Home Phase

‘I simply have to love the idea. I’ll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire’

Our coaching team

Tara Conklin

Evie Wyld

Andrea Stewart

Dhonielle Clayton

Lesley Kara

Piers Torday

Clare Mackintosh

L.R. Lam

Bea Fitzgerald

Emylia Hall

Urban Waite

Tasha Suri

Colleen Oakley

Kate Dylan

Anissa Gray

Gina Sorell

Kate Riordan

Heather Webb

Melanie Conklin

Alice Kuipers

Kate Davies

Sarah Turner

Libby Page

Katie Khan

Amanda Reynolds

Mahsuda Snaith

Ella McLeod

David Solomons

Katalina Watt

Kickstarting a writing career

The Novel Kickstarter Course

Progress at your own pace

Your success, on your terms. Always.

Stay a little longer

A good story will wait

Money-back policy

Time to check it’s right for you

Write with the best in the business

Coaches not lecturers

60+ workshops a month

Write in good company

Genre expertise

‘Outstanding genre-specific workshops!’

Video masterclasses

Catch Up TV for storytellers

A supportive writing community

Come for the course. Stay for the people.

More 5-star reviews

We’re the home of happy writing

Flexible pricing

Payment options

Created by a Booker Prize-listed author

‘Louise Dean is a significant voice in fiction’

Better value than a university course

At a fraction of the price

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