Creative Writing Classes
Take our program one class at a time
Our classes and services
Sign up to our individual writing classes one step at a time. Or check out our courses, which offer combinations of the classes for a mapped-out journey to writing success.
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.
The Advanced Class
Whether you write professionally, for personal pleasure, or you’re a published author already, the Advanced Writing Class will help elevate your writing game, your confidence, and your chances of success.
Establish a high-stakes drama for your next best novel yet. With this class, you’ll gain absolute control of your story to outline your plot. We’ll takes an insider’s look under the bonnet of Pulitzer and Booker Prize-winning novels to consider how to bring the best storytelling techniques to adult fiction to find the sweet spot of acclaim and bestseller status.
The Ninety Day Novel
Take a fresh approach to writing a novel and get a first draft done. When you discover how easy it is to really write a novel, you’ll only wish you’d started sooner.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced writer, you’ll find the course a breath of fresh air, offering the chance to learn the methods of famous authors to fast-track your writing.
Our Story First Method® means your storyline will have everything a prospective publisher or literary agent looks for in a novel before you start writing. With a lesson a day to guide you, and personal coaching, you’ll set up a great story, power through the middle, and raise the stakes toward a satisfying ending.
The Big Edit
Have you completed the first draft of your story? If so, it’s time to congratulate yourself and take a breath. And then? It’s time to edit.
You’ll work one-on-one with professional editors (of bestselling and award-winning books) to review, revise and refine to the highest publishing standards. You’ll learn how to edit your own work and take the all-important big step from being a writer to becoming a published author. The skills you’ll learn with our editing course will make you a better writer for life.
What’s more, when your final manuscript is ready, we’ll be delighted to make a plan for submission to the most respected literary agencies worldwide.
Our class modules
Take a look inside at what you’ll learn on our individual classes. Sign up for our courses to take a combination of classes for a mapped-out journey to writing success.
Find the Idea
Once Upon a Time
The Process
Worldbuilding
Heroes and Villains
The Reader
The Author
Farewell
The Inspiration and Preparation Phase
The Construction Phase
The Swim Phase
The Heat Phase
The Enlightenment Phase
The Home Phase
Turning Pro
The Developmental Edit
Line Edit
The Submission Process
The Advanced Class
Master your story
Outline your novel to ensure you have a commercially-sound base for a story that readers, literary agents and publishers will love.
Welcome
The Vital Organs
The Working Plan
The Depth Chargers
Magic and Mastery
The Ultimate Manuscript Assessment
The last step to publishing.
Congratulations on coming so far.
Invest in the best service to achieve your ambitions.
The Pitch
Structural Development
A Marked-Up Manuscript
Meeting with the Editor
Next Steps Toward Publishing
The classes
The Classic Storytelling Class
- Membership (1 Year)
- The Classic Storytelling Class
- A Coaching Session
- A Year’s Access
The Ninety Day Novel Class
- Membership (1 Year)
- The Ninety Day Novel Class
- 6 Coaching Sessions
- A Year’s Access
The Big Edit Class
- Membership (1 Year)
- The Big Edit Class
- 2 Editorial Sessions
- A Year’s Access
The Advanced Class
- Membership (1 Year)
- The Advanced Class
- A Year’s Access
The Ultimate Manuscript Assessment
- A Full Editorial Report
- The Pitch
- Structural Development
- Marked-Up Manuscript
- Meeting with an Editor
- Membership 1 year