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A foundation in storytelling to create and plan your novel.

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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 years access

Start your journey to become an author.

The Classic

A storytelling foundation      

55 self-paced lessons

Coaching session

Videos, tools and downloads

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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 worlds best-loved fiction writing school to find your story.

The Classic

50+ self-paced lessons

With videos, tools, downloads

With a writer coaching session

Enjoy a coaching session of 45 minutes over Zoom where you can discuss your ideas with a bestselling author. Get their feedback, encouragement and inspiration to begin writing your novel.

  • A personal coaching session of 45 minutes
  • Review your ideas with an experienced author
  • Get feedback and inspiration to begin writing
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With a writer coaching session

Get advice from a bestselling author on your ideas for your story.

Workshops and events      

40+ workshops a month

100’s of recorded masterclasses 

24/7 online community for writers

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A thriving community for writers

We’re the largest writing community exclusively for novelists. We offer more live online writing classes on a monthly basis than any other writing school. You’ll find specialist writing workshops for fantasy fiction, science fiction, crime and suspense fiction, historical fiction, romance, literary fiction, young adult, children’s fiction, memoir and more. Enjoy 40+ group online workshops and events every month. Meet literary agents and industry professionals. We pride ourselves on a safe and supportive space where serious writing is fun. You’ll make friends and grow as a writer.

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40+ writing classes a month

100’s of recorded masterclasses 

24/7 online community for novelists

Discover the writing group

Start your storytelling journey

 

Sign up to start developing your unique and exciting story today.

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The Classic

$ 599

  • Membership (1 year)
  • The Classic (55 lessons)
  • Writer Coaching (1 session)

 

 


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$ 1699

  • Membership (1 year)
  • The Classic (55 lessons)
  • The Ninety Day Novel (100 lessons)
  • Writer Coaching (6 sessions)
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The Classic

£ 499

  • Membership (1 Year)
  • The Classic (55 lessons)
  • Writer Coaching (1 Session)

 

 


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The Novel Kickstarter

£ 1399

  • Membership (1 Year)
  • The Classic (55 lessons)
  • The Ninety Day Novel (100 lessons)
  • Writer Coaching (6 sessions)
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You have our 7-day money-back Happy Writing guarantee should you change your mind.

‘Some of the trade secrets of the craft’ 

 

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‘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

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‘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

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‘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 youve 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

‘I waited 66 years to get an agent. It was worth it.’ 

 

The Novelry submitted Susie’s book to our literary agency partner PF+D, and Susie was offered representation and went on to secure a two-book publishing contract with Pushkin Books.

‘I joined an amazing online writing community called The Novelry. Up until then, I’d only written full-length fiction for adults but had got to the point where I’d lost momentum and couldn’t finish anything. I wailed to Louise at The Novelry that I had no ideas and she assured me that after the first week of The Novelry’s Classic Course, I’d have something. She was right.’ —Susie Bower

‘I waited 66 years to get an agent. It was worth it.’ 

‘I joined an amazing online writing community called The Novelry. Up until then, I’d only written full-length fiction for adults but had got to the point where I’d lost momentum and couldn’t finish anything. I wailed to Louise at The Novelry that I had no ideas and she assured me that after the first week of The Novelry’s Classic Course, I’d have something. She was right.’ —Susie Bower 

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