More ideas than you can shake an inspiration stick at ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fab exercises for toning up your idea muscles. A fun, inspiring week.
Bursting with stories ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ve written short stories for a while, but this course gave me loads of ideas about where to find stories and how to develop them. It’s also given me lots of food for thought about my writing process and how to approach (and edit) stories. I really feel the course demystifies everything about short stories, from idea to submission, and I’m looking forward to polishing the stories I’ve written over the past few weeks and trying to find them a home in the world. Thanks, Jo and Sarah
As a full Writers’ HQ member you’ll get all these goodies and more pep than you can shake your pen at.
Plotstormers: How To Plot A Novel & Plotstormers II: The Editing Strikes Back
The First Draft: Write Your Novel In Six Months
Writing Short Fiction & Seven Ideas in Seven Days
Find An Agent, Write A Synopsis & The Query
Making People: Characterisation Masterclass
14 Days To A Solid Writing Habit & Turbocharge Your Creativity
PLUS 15% off all writing retreats and sweary merch
You won’t regret it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I signed up for this course to help keep on track with a major rewrite of my novel, hoping thereby to avoid a big editing headache at a later stage. Plotstormers II provides a clearly laid out plan of action and takes you through the deconstruction-reconstruction process a step at a time, with plenty of moral support provided by Jo and forum participants along the way. A certain amount of pain may be inevitable, but it’s definitely a case of no pain no gain, and also brings to mind the advice of Mark Twain with regard to riding a bicycle: you won’t regret it, if you live.
Amazing journey of discovery ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was a bit hesitant about doing an online course but I liked Writers’ HQ’s approach and the programme for plotstomers looked like the business. Over the last 6 weeks I have made such huge progress with novel. Really getting to grips with where story was going, characters’ motivation, that thing everyone mentions called “conflict”. The teaching material was excellent: just right amount and level. Support was good though I didn’t really get too involved with forum discussions as my head was buried in doing the plotting homework. Feel massively more confident now about actually writing the bloody novel. Will be going on to the next stage with Writers’ HQ.
Writers’ HQ is run by Sarah and Jo, two micro-sized writers who could never quite get the thing they needed from the huge array of (largely brilliant) writing courses available. So they (we? It’s us! Hello! We’re writing this in the third person!) set out to provide an inclusive, welcoming, supportive, step-by-step, hand-holding environment, away from tiresome literary snobbery and grammar pedantry, for the many writers out there who feel as though they don’t fit. Between them (us?) they’ve (we’ve?) got four degrees in literature, Shakespeare and creative writing (and maths, but we don’t discuss that one. It was a dark time), a vast portfolio of writing in various disciplines and a smattering of awards, predominantly for writing but also including winning a secondary school beauty contest, aged 11. Guess who that was.
Writer of many hats. Procrastinator level: mage. Tea status: builders, three cups a day max. Internet obsessive.
Loves: furious feminist fiction. Climate change stories. Unconventional narratives. A jolly good yarn.
Writer of many things. Productivity overlord. Tea status: leaves bag in when milking, unlimited cups a day. Meme obsessive.
Loves: Shakespeare, old English dick jokes, furious feminist fiction, Terry Pratchett.
