Our Online Creative Writing Courses.
Our mission to make it possible for everyone to write a work of fiction to publishing standard whatever you do, wherever you are. Our online courses drip-feed you original, fresh and constructive guidance from an award-winning author daily. You can start when you're ready. The courses are suitable for writers of any experience. The lessons are given by video and in text and will make you smile, feel excited and build your confidence as we build your story. Sign up today.
Happy writingIf you want to write a novel from the start to 'The End'...
The Novel Writing course created by a novelist, of course. Our famous Ninety Day Novel ® online course will guide you daily, step-by-step, through the writing of your novel from coming up with the idea to writing 'The End'. From £165. Available in all currencies. More...
If you need to crack the big idea an idea and plan a book...
The Classic Course will lead you through the process of world-building using the methods of the all time bestseller writers, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and more. The 45-lesson online course is suitable for writers of any genre. Discover the story you're meant to write. From £129. More.
If you need to prepare your book for success ...
Our Editing Your Novel course is the 30-lesson online course which will put your story through its paces giving you the best shot at success. Join us as a member too to get live feedback on your work from other writers. £95. Available in all currencies. More.
The Writer's Writing Course
Louise Dean created the course at The Novelry and she is your course tutor. She is the award-winning, Man Booker longlisted, author of four internationally published novels. Winner of the Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize. Nominated for The Guardian First Novel Prize. Winner of Le Prince Maurice Prize. Nominated for the Dublin Literary Prize. Louise's novels have been well-reviewed and her fourth novel was an Oprah Book Club choice.
The Novel Writing Course That Works
Katie Khan signed up for our Ninety Day Novel ® course in August 2017.
Katie wrote her novel in ninety days.
Katie's novel was published by Penguin Transworld in August 2018.
Nice work, Katie!
Learn From The Great Writers
Your daily lessons are served online via video and text using methods and insights based on the acclaimed great works of fiction. They are paced to coincide with the writing of a novel.
"All autobiography is storytelling, all writing is autobiography."
J.M Coetzee
"It's probably natural for readers to move into writing, and that's essentially what happened to me. Creating people out of nothing and putting them on paper seemed like an amusing and interesting thing to do. Writing novels is a great deal of fun. The play element in it for me is very large. "
Annie Proulx
"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaningless of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. "
Kurt Vonnegut
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
Doris Lessing
"What makes a novel feel vital is when it comes into being as it is written, in much the same way as the moment occurs as it is lived. So what I was doing was writing blindly, unknowing of what would come next."
Karl Ove Knausgaard
"I write a lot of material that I know I’ll throw away. It’s just part of the process. I have to write hundreds of pages before I get to page one."
Barbara Kingsolver
"My novel took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy ... I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did."
Muriel Spark
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
Stephen King
"It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live."
John Fowles
"Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not."
Patricia Highsmith
"I have been a man who is always about to go into a room and write. That's where I'd rather be, most of the time"
Hanif Kureishi
"No tricks."
Raymond Carver
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Memberships, Awards, Recognition
The founder of The Novelry, Louise Dean, is a member of the National Association of Writers in Education, Member of The Society of Authors. Louise Dean was Winner of the Best Newcomer Independent Professionals in Education 2016.
