Become a member of The Completion Club
The Completion Club is our online members-only community at The Writing Coach, designed to give you the tools you need to complete your writing project. Membership of ‘The Completion Club’ is now closed to new members. If you are interested in membership options that will be launched in future, please contact Jacqui here.
Our virtual group enjoys an in-person meet at The Festival Hall London
The Membership Package
This is a virtual group so you can join from anywhere in the world. Membership works out at £15 (approx $23) per month.The club is now closed to new members.
- Forum: Immediate access to our established community of fellow-writers via our on-site forum which will is moderated by Jacqui Lofthouse.
- Weekly Accountability Post: This is the ‘secret ingredient’ of the Completion Club. Current members find this one of the most useful and inspiring aspects of club membership. Each Monday morning you are encouraged to post your weekly progress on the forum and to plan your writing week ahead.
- 52 Modules: Jacqui produces regular ‘modules’ short ‘master classes’ in particular areas of writing such as how to plan your writing time, character development and plot. You gain immediate access to the module library (21 available to download). Each week you will gain access to a new module. These build into a comprehensive guide to writing and publishing a book.
- Interviews with Industry Experts: When you join you will be able to immediately download podcast interviews with our previous monthly guests, including authors, publishers and editors. Recent guests include John Harding author of Florence and Giles and Louise Doughty, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize 2011 and longlisted for the Orange Prize. Our current library includes interviews with novelists Kate Harrison and Linda Buckley-Archer, Sandra Rigby, senior commissioning editor at Duncan Baird Publishersand Robert Irwin, author of Memoirs of a Dervish. Each month we have a new guest interviewee with expertise in a particular area of writing or publishing. You can attend the live interview via a teleconference line and ask questions at the end. All members can download the interview as an MP3 file after the call.
- Quarterly meeting: A quarterly London-based meet-up with other group members – so this becomes a real, not just a virtual community.
- Contribute to the charity African Revival: When you join The Completion Club you help support the charity African Revival with 20% of membership fees being donated directly to the charity who work in Africa to give children access to education and opportunity. You support the charity via your membership. Thus far, The Writing Coach has raised around £700 for African Revival.
The Completion Club has many benefits for writers at all stages of their careers. If you are longing to complete a book or writing project but finding it difficult to stick to your goals our community can help you to focus and commit to regular, productive work. This is a warm community of writers who are mutually committed to completion and success.
Jenny Hammerton has secured a literary agent since joining The Completion Club
“Trawling the net for information about evening classes in creative writing I was lucky enough to stumble upon Jacqui’s website. What wonderful serendipity that the Completion Club was starting the very next day. I knew from the word go that the Club would offer me far, far more than an evening class ever could. The support I have received from Jacqui and my fellow members as been invaluable, fun, heart-warming and hugely educational.
I have tackled the problematic areas of my plans and really focused on the things that will get my book out there. Other members of the group have given me pep talks on the forum. Being in the club has both inspired me to strive for excellence in my writing and has given me the much needed motivation to forge ahead with my project. I love Completion Club!”
The current club is now closed to new members.
