• Creative Writing Course - online

    A web-based interactive course in ten lessons to transfer
    creative writing skills and build confidence through focussed
    exercises and feedback from your personal tutor.

    Over forty exercises designed to build your writing skills.

    Lesson outlines and instant access
  • Creative Writing Course - download

    Download the non-interactive version of the course with ten comprehensive
    modules and over forty written exercises for just £9.95

    For the additional benefits of a personal tutor and detailed feedback choose the online course

    Lesson outlines and instant download
  • Writing Forge Inaugural Short Story Prize

    Open to all, this is an exciting new short story competition with a tantalising first prize of £700.

    The inaugural competition has now closed and the winners have been announced...

    The Winners and the Stories
  • Editorial and Manuscript Consultancy Service

    You need to know what works and what doesn't in your writing. Whether you have a part-finished novel or a short story, the Writing Forge will help you understand which areas to focus on and can advise on publication.

    Contact the Writing Forge with your requirements

How do I construct characters that live in the reader's imagination?

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Creative Writing Course - online

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 and instant access click here

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Creative Writing Course - download

The full set of lessons and exercises as above but without feedback from a tutor.

To download instantly, click here

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Editorial advice and manuscript consultancy

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

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Professional ebook publishing

Editing, cover design, layout and publishing

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Privacy

We won't share your contact or other details with anyone, ever...more.

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I have no hesitation in recommending The Writing Forge Courses... more 

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It rewarded the effort I put into each exercise and did not shy away from clearly pointing out areas for improvement. more 

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...probably the best investment you could make in your writing. more 

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...fiction seeks to evoke emotion, non-fiction conveys information. Most of us are used to non-fiction; reports at work, Facebook postings, emails, tweets and texts, maybe even the odd letter from time to time. Tweets and texts demand brevity, official writing (should) value simplicity and clarity. But carry this over to fiction and you can end up with something so dry that a reader soon gives up the struggle ...   close quote

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 ... more 
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'Beautifully written...with a plot like a nest of seething vipers' Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy
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