Our online courses are suitable for writers of any experience, beginning gently with the nuts and bolts of good habits and developing your writing skills to a publishing standard. Build your confidence as we build your story. Happy writing!
Both published and aspiring authors come to The Novelry to refresh their craft skills, hone the story and enjoy the support and accountability that will take them all the way to 'The End'.
The Classic Course will lead you through the process of world-building for Children's, Young Adult or Historical Fiction using the methods of writers like JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and more. Discover the story you're meant to write. From £129 or $165.
Get guidance and coaching from a Man Booker listed novelist. Our famous Ninety Day Novel ® online course will guide you daily, step-by-step, through the writing of your novel all the way to 'The End'. With live one-to-one sessions. From £165 / $210. Available in all currencies.
Where page-turning plot meets pitch-perfect prose. The 30-lesson online course which will put your story through its paces. Take it before you start or before you go to second draft. Join us as a member to get live feedback on your work from other writers. £95/ $125.
Our courses and live coaching are available worldwide online.
Both published and aspiring authors come to The Novelry to refresh their craft skills, hone the story and enjoy the support and accountability that will take them all the way to 'The End'.
Louise Dean created the course at The Novelry and she is your personal 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.
"I loved it!" The Bookfox.
The Novelry has won 2 of the 7 categories for Best Online Creative Writing Courses as judged by The Bookfox.
Winner - Best Course for Writing Your Novel
Winner - Best Course for Editing Your Novel
"I’ve gone through all 100 video lessons and loved it — and you can get extra personalized feedback from Louise Dean herself (both over Skype and through written feedback)." John Fox.
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!
In 2018 we saw our writers like Katie get publishing contracts and awards listings. Read the 2018 round up here.
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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."
"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. "
"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. "
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The scariest moment is always just before you start."
"It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live."
"Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not."
"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"
"No tricks."
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