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About our writing courses

Our writing courses are run by award-winning authors, professional novelists and industry experts, best-selling writers, poets and journalists, university lecturers and academic leaders.

Wherever you are in your own writing journey, just getting started, about to publish, looking to sell your work, or taking the next step in your career, we offer the training, support and guidance you need to help you achieve your writing goals.

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The saying goes that “everyone has a novel in them” and it's our mission to help you get yours out! Brought to you by real writing experts who were once exactly where you are now.

We all start from somewhere. Our writing tutors are true experts that know what it takes to get published, to get paid, to get noticed, to get read. Join us today , let us help you to get where you want to be in your own writing career.

Our Writing Courses By our expert tutors

Starting out, becoming a successful writer.

Suitable for: ✔ Writers starting out

Are you new to writing and wondering how to go about breaking into print? If so, this course can almost certainly help. It will help you find the field for which your own writing talents are best suited, and will show you how to produce the kind of material that editors and publishers in that field demand.

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Highly Rated  Polish Your Writing Style

Suitable for: ✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers

How should you structure paragraphs? What factors should influence your sentence length? What is the difference between a topic sentence and a what-next sentence and when should you use these sentences? These are typical questions your course addresses and will give you a flavour of the kind of work you will be tackling.

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Making the Most of your Life Experiences

A unique, purposeful and enjoyable course to tell you how to best capitalise on what is probably your most prized possession: your stock of personal memories. The course will guide you through what is likely to work well and warns you of obvious dangers. It is full of tips gained from practical experience which you can apply to telling your memories, whether you do so for occasional pleasure or as the basis of a business.

Novel Writing Bootcamp

The essential skills of building and writing your novel. Based on the popular 'Start your story with Writing Magazine' workshop, this course details everything you need to get your novel off the ground.

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Trending   Poetry writing course

Poetry can be the most creative and the most satisfying of all forms of writing. Most people who enjoy words have within them the ability to create poetry, if only they knew how. Our course teaches where and how to find inspiration, how to translate the inspiration into words, and how to craft your words into lines of poetry.

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Writing for Children

Our online writing for children course covers everything you need to know as a children's writer from finding your style to marketing your work. Work with a published children's writer and find out for which age group your writing style suits best. The course can cover everything from picture books for toddlers through to series reads for teenagers.

How to Write Crime

Fancy yourself as the next big crime writer? Study the key ingredients to writing a successful crime novel with our online writing course.

Creative Non-Fiction

Suitable for: ✔ Improving writers

Whether you are a newcomer who has a particular interest in non-fiction, or a more experienced writer who wishes to transfer your skills into a different genre, the Creative Non-Fiction course will give you a thorough grounding in this fast growing and popular genre.

Most Popular  Short Story writing course

Work alongside a professional short story writer to find out what it takes to write a publishable story. Our online short story writing course teaches you to create credible plots and structure your story as well as showing you how to present your work ready for publication.

Scriptwriting

Suitable for: ✔ Writers starting out ✔ Improving writers

Successful scriptwriters come from all backgrounds. The main requirement for success is a passion and curiosity for people and their stories. The next step is to take that passion and transfer it to the page in the correct form. This is where our scriptwriting course comes into its own.

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Inside Scoop  Article Writing and Freelance Journalism

The inside scoop on getting editor noticed - learn to write what the publishers are looking for and sell your work with our online article writing and freelance journalism course. We start with a review of the editorial policies and requirements of the various market sectors open to you. For each, you will see their needs from an editor's-eye view and see exactly where there are opportunities for the freelance writer.

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Fiction (novel-writing)

Suitable for: ✔ Improving writers ✔ Advanced writers

Have you always wanted to turn your ideas into a novel? Our online fiction writing course will help you get started, taking you from the basics through to submitting your manuscript to publishers. Your course starts with guidance on choosing the subject matter and treatment of a novel that will be saleable in today's marketplace. You are shown how to analyse publishers' requirements and how to structure your novel to meet these requirements. You will also be guided as to

Getting Published

How to make money from your writing.

There are lots of ways to get paid for your writing. With this course you will learn different methods to help you get the most from your writing to start earning income.

Mini Course  How to promote and sell your book

Are you ready to show the world your hard work? Make sure you do it right with this two-part course and gain practical tips and advice to ensure your book is a success.

Two part mini course

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Ghostwriting

Turn your writing talent into a valuable source of income - perhaps even a new career - with this brand new course from WM Creative Writing Courses. As a ghostwriter, you need skills that not every writer has. Opting to write professionally for somebody else introduces a different approach to writing than you have used before.

Every course is personalised for you

More than a course - these are personalised journeys designed around you.

Our courses start with a personal profile of you plus two fixed assignments. These are designed to challenge and develop your writing, but combined with your profile, helps your personal course tutor to understand where you are in your writing ability, your style and your aspirations.

All further assignments are personalised for you , to target the areas of your own writing that could be polished, improved and finessed to help you become the writer you want to be.

No deadlines Work at your own pace

"Really, how can that be?" I hear you asking. Because our courses give you up to two years to complete your assignments. Why two years? Because we know that it can be difficult to find time to write, juggling many of life's demands, finding time to focus can be difficult and writing to a high standard is not easy.

So whether you are working part time or full time, only writing at weekends or when time permits, a parent, a student or you simply enjoy the challenge and art of writing as a hobby, we understand that being time poor is part of modern life. So no deadlines to stress about, no completion dates to worry over, no rushing to complete a task.

You work in your own time, when you can, at a pace that suits you. After all, these courses are there to help you to fulfil a passion, not add to the daily grind, but enhance, guide and develop one of the oldest and most beautiful art forms, the craft of writing.

Webinar based complete novel writing course

Perhaps you would prefer to learn from our webinar video series. Our complete webinar writing course is available on demand!

This 12-part, 8.5-hour course has been created to provide apprentice novelists will all of the essential tools and information they need to produce a polished novel. It starts at the very beginning of your project with the idea and takes you through to the submissions and publication process.

Our webinar modules are available both individually and as a complete course.

All 12 Modules: £175

Individual modules from £17.50 each

Even more great writing resources

Novel Mentoring

By James McCreet

Our novel mentoring service is for people who need one-to-one supervision with the construction of a new work, the refinement/repair of work in progress, or help with refining craft.

James says: "I try to understand what the writer wants to achieve in their work and what effect they want to have on their target readership. Then we work together to produce the best possible reading experience. I like to create a balance between personal expression and the highest standards of craft. Good writing is my goal."

Critique Service

Have your writing critiqued by a professional writer

Why have your writing critiqued?

• Professional accreditation
• Full or mini manuscripts are assessed
• Gain valuable feedback from a professional writer

If you have writing ready to send to an editor or publisher or you simply want professional guidance on how your writing is progressing, Writing Magazine Reading and Critique service is here to help.

Our critique service is for all types of writing including novels, poetry, short stories, scripts and many more writing styles.

Do you really need a tutor? Can you do it alone?

Almost certainly you will already have tried writing, maybe even selling a few pieces. You may even have submitted a novel for publication. When starting out, you probably discovered you hardly knew where to start, or having started off with enthusiasm you hardly knew where to stop. Perhaps, having completed a writing piece to your own satisfaction, you were met only with rejection slips when you tried it out on publishers, but had no idea what was wrong with it.

Perhaps you have started to feel you haven't got what it takes to become a professional writer, that you were born without the ability to tell great stories and produce a marketable product. This is simply not true. Do not listen to those voices. What you need is some guidance, perhaps some fundamentals are missing from your writing, perhaps you have made some common mistakes. Do not let your writing journey end here, you do not have to write alone. Some of the greatest authors of all time were in your position once, and they all did the same thing to succeed, they sought help.

Taking the next step together - you are not alone.

We offer courses for writers starting out, for improving writers reaching for the next stage in their writing career, and writers that are advanced in their writing but reaching hurdles they cannot cross alone, such as getting published, being recognised or adding that marketing polish to get their books sold. Together, you and your tutor will work to make you the best writer you can be, to achieve your writing goals and to make your writing a rewarding, fulfilling and successful part of your life.

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So how do I get started?

Take a look at our courses, choose the most relevant course for you and dive in. Once your payment is received, you will receive a welcome pack, a personal profile form to complete and a course pack containing your initial assignments. From then on, everything is at your pace, personalised to your particular needs and focussed on one thing, making your writing great.

We can't wait to hear from you, so please join our community of writers and maybe you could be our next success story. We look forward to working with you. You deserve this, don't hesitate any more, pick a course and start today.

Course extensions

A course extension is ideal for you if you have just completed either a six or eight-assignment Writing Magazine creative writing course. A course extension allows you to extend your writing studies with us to include an additional six assignments for just £140.

Your extension assignments will be personally set by your professional writing tutor and will provide you with essential advice on how to improve your writing even further and help you achieve your writing ambitions.

To book your course extension, call 01778 392 492 or email us. Please have your student reference number to hand.

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