Online on Saturday 12th April 2025, 10am – 4pm UK time
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An exclusive one-day writing course for those who wish to improve their skills and take their novel or memoir manuscript to the next level
with Writing Coach Founder Jacqui Lofthouse.
Would you love to complete your book in 2025?
This course is for all fiction or memoir writers who want to really improve their work and complete a finished manuscript.
If you want to make strides with your first book or if you’re an experienced writer looking to polish a second draft, this course will give you the skills and the roadmap you need to gain true momentum and confidence as you navigate the complex path ahead.
Are you ready to deeply commit to your book in the year ahead?
If you are a writer of fiction or memoir who has begun a writing project and is now ready to take it the next level, we’d love to welcome you to this special day.
- Do you need help with your opening chapters, making your work come alive, and keeping the reader turning the page?
- Are you stuck with your manuscript, uncertain how to get the reader deeply engaged?
This course will make a real difference to your output and your craft. You will learn what literary agents and publishers are looking for, but equally importantly how you can achieve this whilst maintaining your authentic voice.
The Developing your Novel or Memoir Course covers:
- Overcoming blocks to the writing process
- The ingredients of a winning first chapter
- How to ensure that your work has focus and direction
- Making every chapter count – how to avoid the ‘saggy middle’
- Character development and ‘shifts’
- Maintaining pace and tension in the novel
- Realism – how to make the reader believe in your world
- How to make your work appealing to literary agents and publishers
Would you also like feedback on your work?
One special aspect of this course is the additional opportunity to have one of our experienced team review up to 10,000 words of your work. Your editor – an expert in your genre – will read and annotate your work, provide a mini report, and talk with you individually to discuss your writing and make editorial suggestions. This can be particularly useful if you are preparing to submit to literary agents and publishers.
Jacqui says:
My aim is that every participant on this course gains a very distinct awareness of what they need to do in order to truly commit to their writing work and an understanding of how they can make that work as good as it possibly can be. All participants will go away with specific knowledge about improving their work and how they can get closer to the story too, so that they feel more compelled to write, more passionate about connecting to their writing and more certain that the effort will be rewarded in the marketplace. I will be available for one-to-one q & a at the end of the day and look forward to answering individual questions.
At the end of the day, you will have:
- A clear idea of how to progress your writing and take it to the next level
- New ways of thinking about your fiction and staying connected to the process
- A notebook full of ideas and completed practical writing exercises
- Awareness of exact steps to take to improve your writing
- All essential course notes with key points covered during the day
- A knowledge of what the publishing industry is looking for
- A bunch of new writing colleagues and friends
- A new, freshly inspired outlook on your writing
One special aspect of this course is the additional opportunity to have one of our experienced consultants review up to 10,000 of your work and provide a mini report and talk with you individually to discuss your work and make editorial suggestions. This can be particularly useful if you are preparing to submit to literary agents and publishers.
Fees:
Developing Your Novel or Memoir Course: £85 inc VAT
Developing Your Novel Course with Feedback on 10,000 words of your work: £445 inc VAT
If you choose the feedback option, you will work with one of Jacqui’s team at The Writing Coach.
Your Tutor:
This course is run by Writing Coach founder Jacqui Lofthouse. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, having studied under Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. Jacqui is the author of four novels, The Temple of Hymen, Bluethroat Morning, Een Stille Verdwijning and The Modigliani Girl. Her novels have sold over 100,000 copies in the UK, the USA and Europe. She has taught creative writing in a broad variety of settings including at Richmond Adult College, the Cheltenham Festival and City University, London. She is currently submitting her Young Adult novel and working on her first play. She is an established and experienced coach and mentor, having helped many authors to publication and frequently mentors writers at all levels, from beginners to MA Creative Writing graduates and published authors.
A word from Jacqui:
I’m so excited to be offering this Developing your Novel or Memoir course. I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge and working with you to move your writing career to a new level. You will have access to full course notes and have the opportunity for individual feedback.
The course will also enable you to see where you need to specifically focus in order to polish your work and make it both entirely your own and also market-ready. I would love to meet you on the day!