Creative Writing Courses

In our self-paced courses and classes, you will enjoy lessons with videos and text giving you guidance. You’ll be guided step-by-step within the course and be served downloads and tools at just the right time for the development of your story. Besides writer coaching and one-to-one editorial sessions included in most plans, you’ll enjoy the support of the online community, and be able to join us for live weekly writing workshops suitable for all writers in every genre.

You will have access to the course for a year, after which it’s easy and affordable to maintain access to your course on a monthly or annual basis.

You can take the lessons at your own pace. We suggest one lesson a day which will take from 20–30 minutes.

We’ll share with you our ‘One Hour A Day’ writing method. All the ‘heavy lifting’ of creative development happens during the rest of the day as you consider what the lessons bring to your story. Flashes of genius will come to you in the shower or at the shops! You’ll race to your writing every day to get them all down. It’s one hour just for you and you’ll come to love this special time. One hour? You deserve it. 

Your coaching begins after the first week of The Ninety Day Novel Course classes.

Before your first coaching session, we’ll guide you on how to create an outline for a novel. You’ll be nudged in the course to use our interactive tool to submit that to us (on a regular basis as you develop your story). We’ll look at your planned storyline as a team, and if we think another writing coach would be best suited to your story, we’ll drop you a line, but you’ll be able to make the final decision (and can always swap coaches later if you wish). One of the perks of The Novelry is that because our systems and records allow us to stay on track with your story development, it makes hand-off between coaches seamless so that you can work with any writing coach you wish and benefit from advice from experts across the fiction and memoir genres.

Every writing coach reviews your storyline in advance of the session via the interactive tool we call ‘The Plan’.

Your first coaching session begins with your writing coach understanding your intentions and aspirations for your book and writing career. That’s your brief to us, and allows us to give you the dedicated and personal guidance and support you need to achieve your ambition.

The coaching sessions are 45 minutes by Zoom, and you’ll find that’s plenty of time to get help with story development and troubleshoot any problems to stay on track with your writing. All sessions are recorded for you to keep. You may schedule your coaching sessions whenever you wish during your year with us and will be able to browse our diaries to select a time that works for you, in your time zone. Some like to stay on track with a coaching session every two weeks of their writing period, for example, and others like to pace themselves with one a month or get more help up front or more guidance and advance later on. You can get the support you need when you need it.

During the writing of a first draft, our focus is on your storyline, and we work with you to creatively develop and expand the story together, reviewing development in every session and answering your questions for your story.

You can, additionally, book Feedback Sessions which include a report and a live Zoom debrief; see below. We suggest you leave getting feedback on your work until later in your program, after the first draft.

A first draft should allow you to find the story, to be experimental and fearless. Unlike other writing courses, we advise you don’t share or ‘workshop’ the novel at this stage where your confidence and the story are still vulnerable. Some courses have first-time writers on first drafts advising others in their position, and we think this is a bad idea and at best a waste of your very precious time.

At The Novelry, we’ll keep you and your story safe within a one-to-one relationship of trust and care with wise guidance from a published author who cares about your success and will believe in you and your story.

An hour a day. You can take the courses at your own pace and spend as much time as you like writing after the lesson of course. Writers LOVE the lessons and binge them, but we suggest one lesson a day which will take from 20–30 minutes. The lesson is given by video and text with downloads online and it’s timed to coincide with where you’re at in your writing process. You’ll need to set aside an hour a day for your writing when you start The Ninety Day Novel.

All the courses are self-paced.

You have a year’s access to your course but can easily and affordably extend access to your program with our extension plans or remain as a member from just £29.99 or £24.99 a month.

We offer a range of writing workshops for all writers at any stage. Come and meet your fellow writers! They are available recorded as part of our Catch Up TV at our community. You’ll love our vast Box Set including classes with world-famous writers like Tess Gerritsen, Kirstin Hannah, Val McDermid, Paula Hawkins, David Nicholls and many more. Find out more about our writing group and membership here. You can view our forthcoming events here.

Our writing community is online worldwide 24/7. Wherever you are you’ll find writing buddies online when you’re seeking good company. (Most of our writers are in the USA.) It’s a hive of friendly writerly encouragement, full of advice, tips and news, and you can get feedback on your work when you’re editing your novel too at our workshop. You’ll be invited to join the closed community when you join us. Guest events are available to you recorded to watch at a time to suit you as part of our Catch Up TV.

Once you join us for the course, you can purchase Paid Feedback Sessions for £350 or $425 for a 5000-word submission with options to upgrade and add more word count at checkout. 

You may choose to book a Paid Feedback Session to get a ‘voice-check’ on your writing at any stage of your year with us or to ask for help with any specific questions on the writing from either your writing coach or an editor.

The feedback sessions offer detailed feedback on your writing in a report and a live session recorded for you to keep.

If you need or would like more comprehensive feedback on your manuscript, we’d suggest you choose The Finished Novel program which includes a full assessment of your entire manuscript.

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 7 days after purchase. Just email us and let us know.