How To Write a Book
The structured writing course to create, write, and complete a book in a year with the step-by-step writing program at the world-famous novel-writing school. Begin your adventure in fiction today.
Most writers can write, but many struggle with storytelling. Here's your opportunity to develop the advanced storytelling skills that will change the way you write. The Book in a Year plans offer online lessons to inspire and inform your writing; a year’s worth of support from an author tutor in one-to-one mentoring sessions; weekly writing classes, sessions with bestselling authors and a friendly community of fellow writers.
If you’ve always wanted to write a book but don’t know where to start, or you're struggling to complete your book and you want structure, dedicated support and expert guidance, this is the writing course for you. The course will guide you through building the world of your story, outlining your novel, strengthening the plot, writing the first draft and editing it with expert guidance for a fabulous book ready for publication.
Everything you need to take your story from first draft to ‘The End’. Write your book with the step-by-step writing program created by a Booker list author.
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One-to-one coaching sessions
A year's worth of inspiring writing lessons
The Classic Course
The Novel Course
The Big Edit
Membership
Develop advanced storytelling skills
‘Books are a uniquely portable magic.’ Stephen King
Magic, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is:
‘the use of special powers to make things happen that would usually be impossible, such as in stories...’
We will show you the combination of techniques used to produce great fiction from narrative structure The Five F's ® to our powerful prose method Lucid Compression ®.
A writer can make anything happen. We'll show you how.
The Award-Winning Author
Your courses were created by Louise Dean and the team at The Novelry. Louise Dean has won The Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize, Le Prince Maurice Prize, been nominated for The Guardian First Book Prize, longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award and The Booker Prize. Her books have been deemed the top books of their year by The Guardian, The Observer and Publishers Weekly. Her fourth novel was an Oprah Book Club pick. She was a finalist for the Costa Coffee 2020 Short Story Award. SheShe has been widely praised as a writer from the Wall Street Journal to The Sunday Times and by the Novel Laureate for Literature J. M. Coetzee.
As course director, Louise will oversee your progress and ensure you achieve your ambition.
The Step-by-Step Writing Program
Stay on track with one-to-one writer coaching.
In addition to the online courses, you'll get coaching to help you write your novel and stay on track.
You'll be able to choose your preferred tutor for your one-to-one video calls online. Schedule your sessions to fit in your life, and get dedicated support to complete your novel. Find out more about our bestselling author tutors here.
The World Famous Novel Writing School
Live Online Writing Classes From Your Home.
Enjoy writing classes and workshops online with bestselling authors in every fiction genre.
Members can join live or watch our box-set of recorded lessons and masterclasses with authors like Louise Doughty and Mark Billingham. Our library of lessons includes David Nicholls, Jessie Burton, Val McDermid, Paula Hawkins, Meg Rosoff, Rachel Edwards, Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Harriet Tyce, Mike Gayle and more.
Time
We recommend you set aside an hour a day for your writing when you come onto the novel-writing phase of the plan. You can schedule your 30-45 minute author coaching sessions at times convenient to you and check in when you wish during your writing. The course lessons will take 20-30 minutes. When it comes to the last stage - The Big Edit - we recommend you work in chunks of time, say 2-3 hours a session, at weekends or occasional evenings when you can.
Begin Your Adventure in Fiction Today.
Sign up and start with full step-by-step guidance
Get the support you need for the journey with our Book in a Year Plans here. Save 10% on individual course prices when you purchase these smartly-bundled plans.
Try The Novelry for seven days and in the event you want to cancel, we offer a full refund, no questions asked.
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For Your Success Story
“Quite simply – brilliant.”
“Writing my debut novel, Fifty Minutes, whilst completing the course at The Novelry, was an intense experience but an absolutely pleasurable one. Louise Dean and her team are quite simply brilliant. The lessons and guidance I received were first class and helped me to develop as a writer. From the initial idea for my novel to the point of getting agent representation, The Novelry were on hand with support and advice. The dream was always to get an agent and so to receive interest from several was mind-blowing - to have Madeleine Milburn within that list was more than I could have hoped for. I’m thrilled!”
– Carla Jenkins
We Grow Writers
With powerful and practical courses, a personal author tutor, a friendly online community, and a team of in-house professional fiction editors. At The Novelry you’ll find the support, guidance and advice you need to write a brilliant book. You'll never look back. No more wondering why the book doesn't work, or you're getting rejections. This time you'll nail it. With a crack team of passionate book-loving experts.
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Your Literary Agent?
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Creative Writing Course Certificates
Achieve your ambition to write and complete your book.
Proudly display your achievement on your professional profile with our certificates issued upon completion of your courses. Demonstrate an achievement that is 'high stakes' and proves tenacity and staying power. Show expertise with an accomplishment that has been overseen by a respected professional. You'll have a testament to writing skills of a high standard.
Reviews of Our Writing Courses
Writers 🧡 The Novelry

“I started writing my book with The Novelry in May, and by March I had signed with a literary agent.”
“I would never have progressed so quickly without The Novelry, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fast track to mastering the essentials of creative writing. I took all three courses in The Book in a Year plan. I loved the idea of the daily writing practice, the insightful tutor chats, and the combination of high literary ideals and genre awareness. In fact, I loved the course so much that I'm using it to draft my second book – while I've dabbled in many techniques, I feel most comfortable coming back to The Novelry.”
– Olesya Lyuzna, now represented by Aevitas Literary Agency

“Hell yes!”
“I already had an MFA in creative writing; I thought I should be able write a novel by myself. This course - with its combination of support, advice, and community - taught me so much about the novel form while I wrote one of my own. From this course I am taking a number of habits that I can't imagine not having in the future.”
– Jeff Becker, Creative Writing Professor USA
5* Writing Course Reviews
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