WHAT DOES THIS COURSE GIVE YOU?
Our bestselling course has been given a major upgrade with brand-new teaching videos, a 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 modules comprising teaching videos and substantial notes by Anna Davis. Topics covered include hunting down an idea, plotting your story, developing characters, writing their dialogue, finding your narrative perspective, and nailing that all-important first chapter.
- 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 over 40 writing prompts to help you generate ideas, guides to the three-act structure, plotting, building characters, narrative point of view, writing dialogue 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 writing 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?
A module on how to write zingy dialogue – completely new to this course.
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 new 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.
