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Get Black on White ­

30 Days to Productivity and Confidence for Writers

Would you like to kick-start your productivity and boost your daily word count? How might your writing progress if you could conquer self-doubt and truly believe in yourself as a writer?

Our self-study writing course is designed to enable you to achieve just that.

Our Founder Jacqui Lofthouse’s foundational programme Get Black on White: 30 Days to Productivity and Confidence for Writers is perfect for any writer seeking a dose of self-belief and wanting to get words on the page.

This course is particularly useful if you want to get going with a writing project and don’t know where to start, or if you are feeling stuck in the middle of a book and need to find your way through, figuring out the path to completion.

Previous course participants have reported emerging from the course more productive, more self-assured and more committed to their writing work.

Liz Jensen

Novelist Liz Jensen, author of eight novels including the Hollywood-adapted The Ninth Life of Louis Drax used the original Get Black on White ebook and wrote:

“Jacqui Lofthouse’s ‘Get Black on White’ was incredibly useful to me at a time when my writing became stuck. There’s such a clever mix of advice on inspiration and craft. But most of all it’s a practical guide that all writers – published and unpublished – should consider an essential part of their professional kit. It saved that novel’s life.”

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Spear - homelessness to independence

Our Founder Jacqui Lofthouse is particularly proud to support the London-based homelessness charity Spear through this course.

SPEAR is a charity that is particularly close to our Jacqui ’s heart. The charity helps homeless people towards independence. Now, for the first time, 20% of your (pre-VAT) course fee goes directly to SPEAR.

Course Fee: £95

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About the Course:

This unique course is based on Jacqui Lofthouse’s original ebook Get Black on White: 30 Days to Productivity and Confidence for Writers.

  • Each day, you will receive an email linking you to our online portal for a daily reading – 30 daily lessons, beautifully formatted and mobile-friendly.
  • These emails encourage you to write daily. Each day, you receive a writing exercise to complete – or, you can choose to focus your writing time on your current work-in-progress.
  • The course prompts you to write daily for 30 days and to develop writing habits that will last you a lifetime.
  • You can choose to take up the challenge of writing 30,000 words in thirty days. Jacqui wrote the original ebook in this way!
  • You also receive the original ‘Get Black on White’ ebook in PDF format.
  • Access to our private online community space ‘The Literary Salon’ where you can post your daily accountability and progress to share with your fellow writers. Jacqui is regularly present in this forum and able to answer any questions that emerge there.
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The Course Content includes:

PART 1: Overcoming the Obstacles to Writing

Daily lessons include:

  • There is no monopoly on creativity
  • Understanding the ‘plot and structure’ myth
  • Ten notes on writing fiction
  • Examine the blocks

PART 2: The Foundations of The Writing Life

Daily lessons include:

  • How to write when you’re not writing
  • What about research?
  • Write with a sense of direction
  • When is the right time for editing?

PART 3:  Setting yourself up for Success as a Writer

Daily lessons include:

  • Reading ‘outside of the box’
  • How to write great dialogue
  • How to develop confidence as a writer
  • The advice of Henry James

The course fee of £95 includes:

  • Full permanent access to the Get Black on White: 30 days to Productivity and Confidence for Writers online course
  • Permanent access to ‘The Literary Salon’ forum and also the ‘Writing Coach Friends and Clients’ Facebook community – for interaction with Jacqui Lofthouse and the inspiring writers in this community.

Course Fee: £95

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Jacqui Lofthouse

Jacqui says: 

I can’t wait for you to discover the difference that being a member of our forum ‘The Literary Salon’ will make to your writing life… I’d love to welcome you into our private group of writers. You’ll soon notice that there’s something special about The Writing Coach community. I take the progress of your writing life seriously and am on hand in The Literary Salon to answer your questions and to inspire you to move to the next level.

Paola Fonseca

A while ago someone asked me, ‘are you a writer?’ and I thought of the many pieces of paper lying around my writing desk, waiting for my perseverance to turn them into a story. Thanks to the optimistic, but insightful and authentic daily content and exercises of Get Black on White, I was able to shift my fear and jump start the engine of my story! The platform is an excellent tool that enabled me to feel guided and encouraged every day.

Paola FonsecaAuthor of Pen Pal Feathers

Course Fee: £95

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We can’t wait to discover what you will write when you

Get Black on White…

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Whether you want to write your first book, are stuck in the middle of your novel, or uncertain of how to reach the next level as a writer, we can help. 

Contact us today for honest, professional and personal advice on how we can best support you.  

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