Need some great advice to help you reach the end of the first draft? Develop the skills, techniques, and staying power that will get you over the finish line.
Anna Davis
Perhaps you’re writing and writing without a clear sense of where you’re going – or maybe you’re just not sure how to keep building forward from those early chapters? If so, then this is the online creative writing course for you.
Across six weeks, we’ll take you on a journey to help you complete your novel. We’ll help you use ‘active planning’ to solve your writing problems, and teach invaluable writing techniques, such as how to build suspense, how to write great dialogue and how to come up with a satisfying ending to your story.
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.
All students will be given the option to purchase feedback on their final task from a CBC editor.
This is the second course in our popular How to Write Your Novel series, designed to take you from first idea to final draft.
It sits in between Starting to Write Your Novel and Edit & Pitch Your Novel. You can take the courses in succession or choose the right course for your current stage in the writing process.
Encourage your writerly friend or loved one to get creative! We have £220 digital gift vouchers available, enabling you to buy any six-week online course as a present.
Anna Davis is the founder and Director of the Curtis Brown Creative writing school. She is the author of five acclaimed novels which have been published in twenty languages. She has been a journalist and Guardian columnist, as well as a Curtis Brown literary agent. She taught creative writing at the University of Manchester and in many other settings before founding Curtis Brown Creative in 2011.