The Classic Storytelling Class
You’ve always wanted to write a book. But where to start?
What’s the ‘secret sauce’ of a great story? What’s the magic the best-loved works of fiction have in common? How do famous authors come up with their ideas, and how can you find yours?
Learn how to combine your unique experience, deeper motivations and emotional attachments with the prime movers of the big stories to begin your storytelling journey. The Classic will ensure your story is packing all the ingredients for a story readers will find spellbinding.
Learn the secrets of storytelling

Self-paced class
A year to create the world of your story.

Step-by-step program
55 lessons and a 45-minute coaching session.

Lively student community
With over 40 live classes and workshops a month.

A year’s access
Start your journey to become an author.
Come up with a thrilling 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 secondary world of your tale drawing on deeply emotive archetypes to capture the reader’s imagination page after page. You’ll be excited to begin spending time in the world of the book you’ve always dreamed of writing.
Suitable for writers at all stages and perfect for beginners seeking to explore the art of storytelling, this is the fiction writing course created by a Booker Prize-listed award-winning author to help you bring to life a beautiful story, boldly told. Join the world’s best-loved fiction writing school to find your story.
1. Get the Idea (5 lessons)
2. Once Upon a Time (9 lessons)
3. The Process (3 lessons)
4. Worldbuilding (20 lessons)
5. Heroes and Villains (3 lessons)
6. The Reader (3 lessons)
7. The Author (8 lessons)
8. Farewell (4 lessons)
Start your storytelling journey
Sign up to start developing your unique and exciting story today.
‘Some of the trade secrets of the craft’

‘This is a great entryway into the world of creative writing and storytelling! I now have a clear understanding of how to start my novel, I have a way to outline my story ideas, I have a bank of character inspiration to draw from. The Classic is truly a world full of wonderment. I now feel I have a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to move forward into writing my own stories!’
—Lacy Blake-Vetter

‘I’ve loved every minute. I’ve already recommended it to someone who wants to write but doesn’t know where to start. Inspiration, the opportunity to trawl the archives of my personal history, to share in all the trials and tribulations of famous writers and to look under the bonnet of their novels to discover some of the trade secrets of the craft. Life-changing in a big way and in so many small and personal ways.’
—Wayne Silver

‘I got a more expanded, and also grounded, sense of what makes a great story a great story. The simple, clear, recurring emphasis upon storytelling rather than craft has been essential for me. If you’ve done a lot of craft workshops, literary deep dives, and writing intensives– and have lost your way with the juice and spark of writing– this course may be the elixir you need. Bye bye somber morning hours and authorial ennui. Hello creative flash and vibrant, sustainable story-telling life.’
—Jennifer Ruth Keller
The Classic reviews
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