Creative Writing Course

• Creative Writing Course - online (recommended)

  a web-based interactive course in ten lessons to transfer creative writing skills and build confidence through focussed exercises and personal feedback. For lesson outlines click here...

• Creative Writing Course - download

  full set of lessons and exercises as above but without feedback from a tutor. To download click here...

• Editorial advice and manuscript consultancy

  constructive critiques or editorial help with work-in-progress, completed novels or short stories... more...

What makes the Writing Forge so special?

Each of our professional writers and tutors provides support and feedback, and the detailed lesson modules answer questions such as:

• where can I find find ideas?
• how do I construct characters that live in the reader's imagination?
• how can I write lively and realistic dialogue?
• what makes a plot work?
• what keeps readers turning the pages?
• how do I market my work?

For a detailed course structure click here...

The Writing Forge was founded by CJ Emerson, author of 'Objects of Desire' (shortlisted for the 2007 Crime Writers' Association 'New Blood Dagger' Award):

"I started creative writing after after spending years working in offices, staring at computer screens, frustrated at my own lack of motivation to fulfil a promise I'd made to myself at school - that one day I'd be a published writer. Stashed away at home I had a selection of half finished manuscripts, partly-filled notebooks, ideas that were great at four in the morning but which never made it onto the page... more