Start Writing Your Novel

Current Status

Ended

Price

£399.00

Course ended
  • Course dates: October 28, 2025 – December 16, 2025
  • Frequency: weekly lessons, 90 minutes per lesson
  • Duration: 8 weeks
  • Suitable for: beginner/intermediate writers

Taught by Niki and Lauren, this eight-week course includes live elements (weeks 1 – 5, and week 8) and two self-paced weeks to give you time to complete the assignment we’ll set. You will have opportunities to give and receive feedback, and ask your tutors questions throughout.

Course contents

  • Meet your tutors, Niki and Lauren – learn what makes our processes so different and why this is a good thing!
  • Your novel: whose story is it anyway?
  • Starting with your protagonist and why this works.
  • Developing a story-worthy ‘hero’.
  • Getting to know your protagonist.
  • How character leads to plot.
  • Understanding what your character wants… and needs.
  • Exercises and feedback.
  • Ideas… where do they come from?
  • Testing your plot ideas: how to spot an idea that’ll work.
  • The two things.
  • Your opening scene.
  • The set-up.
  • The inciting incident.
  • How to kick-start your story.
  • Why writing a blurb will help you finish your draft.
  • How to write a blurb and what to include.
  • Getting a god’s eye view of your story.