From idea to final draft
We’re here to help you live and love the writing life.

We don’t believe there is a textbook method or set of rules, templates, or a formula for writing a book.

Created by Louise Dean, a Booker Prize-listed author, our unique and fun course content will take you through these tools, helping you power through your writing with (relatively) pain-free plotting, saving you time and frustration as you dodge the rookie errors (overwriting and more) and deepen your understanding of how great storytelling works.

But the history of fiction provides us with a fantastic set of tools we can use to give our writers fast-track insights and techniques.

Readers don’t want fancy words. They want page-turning stories. (So do publishers!)

We start from the ground up by making sure you’re writing a story that excites you and one that’s more likely to get published so you’re not wasting your valuable time. We don’t hold this vital info back from you until after you have written your novel! At The Novelry, you’ll know what’s required for a great story straight from the start so you can write with confidence.

We help you come up with an idea and craft your story (The Big Idea), and then we help you write a complete first draft (The Big Write). You’ll edit your novel with assistance from a publishing editor (The Big Edit), and polish your manuscript ready for publishing with a full manuscript review (The Ultimate Manuscript Assessment). If your novel is a match for our trusted agents and deemed ready by our editorial team for submission, we will submit your manuscript directly to literary agents on your behalf. From start to finish, we keep our eyes on the success of your story.

“Too busy! I don’t have time!” That’s what we all say, isn’t it?

There’s never a good time to write a novel, so don’t wait for it!

Forget that snowy mountain lodge with you, the writer, penning your great modern classic, day and night, with no interruptions. Not gonna happen! Here’s the thing—writing your novel only needs your butt on a seat for an hour a day. One hour? No excuses!

Keeping in touch with your novel every day allows for eureka moments in the shower and for real life to infuse every scene. With our help and direction, you won’t need to worry about the mountaintop; you can just take every day of writing as it comes.

Take that one hour a day for you.

Because there’s never a good time to write a novel, now there’s a good place.

To plan or not to plan your story? Spreadsheets or “follow the main character”? The truth lies in the middle. You need to know your destination, but the route you take is part of the pleasure of writing fiction.

We offer a nimble one-page planning method allowing you to stay on track, updating your route map as all the mysteries of your story unfold on the page. The Plan is what we call our interactive planning form, something our writers update and share with us on a regular basis, enabling us to keep sight of your one-page plan as you develop your story.

The wonder of this one-pager? It contains all the essentials that publishers, literary agents, and readers want from a book. The Plan keeps you safe from idea to edit.

Novels don’t use a three-act structure. The novel is an immersive art form, allowing the reader to assume the experience and outlook of the narrator in a particularly intimate relationship, one-to-one. Every novel is, in a sense, a moral journey for the main character. We will walk you through this simple but elegant story structure to deliver a satisfying ending.

Since Aristotle wrote about the form of tragedy (which is at the heart of big stories, even comedic ones), a five-part structure has been used to help articulate longer stories. At The Novelry, we keep it simple; you can literally count the parts of novel structure on one hand with our very own Five Fs.