The NovelryReviews of thenovelry.com

Really excellent class, delves much deeper than most writing classes I've taken and the daily assignments and tasks helped prepare me for my next draft.

For an aspiring writer the Novelry has everything I could want and more. It’s a serious setup for serious writers and yet it manages to be cozy, supportive and uplifting. I started The Classic course with a certain reservation as to whether I was capable of writing a novel. I decided to trust the process and see where it took me. I’m so pleased that I did. I feel as though I’m in good hands.

Love every thing about it, from the company structure to the customer service The studying materials the courses and the live TV where there is interviews with so many successful authors, editor and publishing company really great experience

I signed up for The Novelry with just the bare bones of an idea and an original draft that never went past 18K words. Somewhere along the "inspiration on steroids" Classic Course, my idea transformed into something I could never have imagined, and I came up with a completely different story - one I'd always wanted to write. But the real magic happened in the Big Edit. I've always tended to rush things and want to move quickly; I now understand why rushing is a disservice to the writing process. Rewriting is key - you don't know your story until your first draft is complete, and editing gives you a chance to refine it so the diamond emerges from the rough. The coaches and mentors at The Novelry are simply brilliant, and their ideas and suggestions took my story to another level. I can't recommend The Novelry highly enough, and I'm truly grateful for the Facebook feed that brought them my way!

I have now virtually completed the “Classic” course, after racing through the early episodes, and then a long hiatus before I caught up with the later ones. I have to say, this really is the most wonderful course on writing, and it is so utterly different from anything I expected. I was inwardly prepared for a detailed analysis of plotting, structure, character arcs, and indeed it has all that. What I was not prepared for was the outright joy with which the course seems to embrace the aesthetic — a word I never expected could possibly appear on any writing course. When I started to see words like “numinous”, and deep dives into spirituality, into the dream-world of our subconscious, the fragility of faith, etc., I was delighted that the course located so centrally not just the how but the why of writing. The slant and focus of this course is simultaneously intimate and analytic, and seems to have a sixth sense in acknowledging all our fears and discouragements. Nowhere in all these lessons is there anything prescriptive about what your story should be about. It offers no opinion on stories about balding men, misplaced love, the ideal number of household pets. Whatever delicate thoughts of your own you bring to the table will pass through its alchemy entirely unscathed. All it does is reaffirm whatever imaginative potential might be latent in you, along with the things you already feel and believe, but haven’t yet found the words to express it, or quite realised that you knew. Motivational words are not so hard to write, perhaps. And the course treats you gently, and offers plenty of motivation. But it’s more than motivational words: the course emanates from a deep, sensitive core of belief — and it transmits that belief to those who read it, so that it becomes their own. Its overarching philosophy is that we must search for the single story that really matters, no matter how dark and difficult the places to which that search might take us. So it’s not so much about how to write — that’s secondary — but about finding what we have inside ourselves that must be written.

This class is worth every penny. I have really enjoyed learning about the structure and framework of a novel, down to sentence structure and word patterns. I had an outline before I started the course. Now I have a detailed map of exactly how to navigate each chapter. Insert words here. Louise is a great guide and truly enjoys words and storytelling. She make it so fun and playful and magical, which just inspires the creativity.

I had a great one year with The Novelry. Even before I was a member, they started guiding me, giving suggestions on which course would be the best fit for me. I took The Big Edit course, and their guidance led me to a place of confidence, motivation and knowledge of both the craft and the industry. They also have a lovely community of aspiring writers, experienced editors and writing coaches who are always open to help. I will be continuing my membership even though I finished the course.

The Novelry takes the stupefying mystery out of writing a novel. It’s a meticulously well-structured and well-supported learning platform with a super-personalize-able learning trajectory, and it is led and staffed by a highly personable, professional, and accomplished team of working authors. Definitely worth the investment.