WHAT DOES THIS COURSE GIVE YOU?
This bestselling course has been given a major upgrade with brand-new teaching videos, an entirely new module, substantially updated notes and new tasks. Enrol now to experience the supercharged edition of this much-loved course, available from September 2025.
- Video modules: Work through six weekly modules comprising teaching videos and substantial notes by Anna Davis. Topics covered include pacing, building suspense, bringing high-drama scenes to life, how to work with an 'active plan', subplots and flashbacks, and what to do when you get stuck in the middle.
- Writing tasks: Weekly writing tasks to help you explore and understand the teaching topics and progress your novel. Weekly posts to the forum from Anna will reinforce these lessons.
- Resources & notes: You’ll get access to expansive resources and teaching notes with case study examples from classic and recent fiction, including guides to writing scenes, showing and telling, crafting an inciting incident and much more – plus a list of recommended reading.
- Professional feedback: An expert CBC editor will post to the group and give brief written feedback on several of the students' practical assignments every week, with all students receiving feedback on one of their tasks. Students are also given the option to purchase additional end of course feedback from our expert editors.
- Student forum: Find your writing community on our private student forums. Upload your completed writing tasks, give and receive peer-to-peer feedback, and discuss the week’s topics with your fellow students and the CBC team.
WHAT’S NEW ABOUT THE UPGRADED EDITION?
An entirely new module 'The scene': on how to write compelling scenes and use them to build your novel strongly forward.
All six modules include . . .
- Substantially improved and expanded materials from our Founder and Managing Director Anna Davis. Every teaching module has been revisited, rethought, and boosted with new topics and techniques.
- Brand-new teaching videos with higher production values than the originals, in which Anna presents her new and revised teaching materials.
- New and revitalised writing tasks and prompts.
- Lots of new and revised resources to enrich the module content, plus updated case studies.
COURSE SCHEDULE & DELIVERY
Our online courses are designed for flexible learning. Allocate your own study time and take part from wherever you are in the world. Each week, we recommend spending at least four hours on the course. It’s also important to be planning and working on your novel throughout the six weeks.
