“The Best Editing Course.”
Go from being a writer to an author. Our Editing course will put your story through its paces. Apply the simple clarity of purpose and logic of the 30 lessons to get your story straight. Be confident that you know how to evaluate what you’re writing and create a meaningful, powerful story, word by word. Get pitch perfect and land that contract.
Get Ready to Revise.
Getting professional with the manuscript. Setting up the novel folder. Check your organisation. Six lessons.
The Story Structure.
How to check it’s all working together as one muscle. The Title. The Hook. The Synopsis. The Five F's. The Midpoint. The absolute essentials to guide the new draft. Six lessons.
Chapter and Verse.
Apply our method to every element of your work. Voice. Perspective. Character. The First Sentence. Your line by line style. Learn how to avoid the ‘Cardinal Sins’ which will get your work rejected. Nine lessons.
Successful Submission.
Know when it’s ready. Get valuable feedback from beta readers and professionals here. The ideal submissions package. Get pitch perfect. How to secure agents and publishers. Ten lessons.
“The Best Course for Editing Your Novel.”
(The BookFox.)
“The Editing Course is a safe homecoming for writers who’ve been sailing the choppy seas of the first draft. It’s both pragmatic and inspiring - from how to lay out a manuscript for submission, to interrogating structure, dialogue, characters, sentences, words, hook…I know that, once I’ve completed it, my manuscript will be as professionally executed as it can be. And here’s a weird thing - I shall be using the Editing course when I construct my next novel. It’s the only ‘reversible’ course I’ve ever encountered!” Susan Nott-Bower.
The Novelry successfully pitched our Ninety Day Novel graduate Susan’s manuscript to literary agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop and they now represent her as an author.
How It Works.
A Unique Process with Personal One-to-One Creative Direction.
Red Light. You will use the course to prepare a plan for your revised draft for Louise Dean to review. (Genre, title, premise, outline, theme - does it hang together? Is it commercially viable? How can we make it stronger?) A 45 minute online working session and written guidelines.
Amber Light. You’ll then revise your novel line-by-line using the Editing Course. You’ll show your work chapter by chapter to our fellow writer members for their developmental feedback and constructive encouragement.
Green Light. You’ll submit the first three chapters to me for our second working session. I will either give you clear guidance to develop the work further, or if you’re ready The Novelry will submit to our partner agencies on your behalf.
£399 for The Big Edit
Submitting to Agents on Your Behalf.
Skip the slush pile (and the stress) when The Novelry pitches your work for you.
We will only submit your work when the manuscript is ready. But we won’t leave you hanging. We’ll give you constructive guidance how to improve the work and get it set for success when you join us for The Big Edit.
We don’t ask either party for commission.
Read more about our Literary Agency partners and what they’re looking for here.
Some of our Literary Agency Partners.
We work with leading global literary agencies who represent authors in every country. Literary Agencies like to work with The Novelry because the standard of work is so high. Click through our partners below. We ask that they VIP fast track our writers and they do! It’s a love story with a happy ending.
I Like Writing, but I Love Editing.
When you know what your true purpose is, and you have a clear story arc, it’s such a joy to revise your first draft. This is my favourite course. Enjoy watching your book emerge. (Click on the dots below to see some of what’s inside the editing course.)
The Big Edit.
£399 / $499
- The editing course.
- A year’s membership of The Novelry.
- Two coaching calls, one with feedback on your work.
- One-to-one support all the way to submission to agents with our unique three-step process and the stewardship of The Novelry.
For Visually Impaired, Dyslexic and Non-Native English Speakers.
We believe in digital inclusion - where life stage, visual impairment, dyslexia or dis/ability aren’t barriers to learning to write a novel.
Our content can be read aloud in multiple languages using the most natural and engaging voice to transform the user’s reading experience. We offer our pages in 99 languages; with speak translated text aloud in 40 languages. Welcome home.
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