Novel Writers
six week group with tons of support & accountability
Want to make dramatic progress on your novel … in just six weeks? My novel writers’ group is a small, focused group with loads of hands-on support from me. It runs through my Writers’ Cafe community.
During the six weeks, you’ll:
👉 Make significant progress on your novel … far more than you would alone
👉 Get much more confident about your writing, through detailed feedback
Novel Writers
Get more writing done in six weeks with us than in six months on your own, with …
📗 Fellow writers who care about your novel and want to cheer you on! 📗
📝Detailed, constructive feedback on your draft material each week 📝
⏲️ Focused goals and (supportive!) weekly accountability on these ⏲️
💡 A weekly theme to help you master advanced aspects of novel-writing 💡
❓ All the opportunities you need to ask any questions and get unstuck ❓
The novel writers’ group costs $50/week for six weeks (£37/week if you prefer GBP) which includes everything above … plus custom resources created just for you.
I keep the group size to 8 members max, so you always get my full attention and support with your writing.
What’s Included
Overall Goal Setting
During “Week 0” (just before the six weeks begins), we each set our own individual goal for the six weeks.
That might be something like:
- Write the next 30,000 words of my novel
- Finish my current draft
- Restructure my novel and prepare for Draft 2
We also each share a brief summary of our novel. This doesn’t need to be anything formal like a synopsis! It’s just so other members have a sense of who your characters are and how your story fits together before we dig into detailed feedback during our group calls.
Weekly Group Calls
Our weekly group calls last for 90 minutes and we spend the bulk of these calls discussing one another’s work.
Each call is recorded, so even if you can’t make it one week, you can catch up afterwards.
We each bring around 1,000–1,500 words to the call, and take around 20–30 minutes to silently read through these at the start. Then, we look at each person’s work in turn, usually with a specific focus for our discussion (e.g. character, perspective, dialogue).
Weekly Accountability Check-In
Each Monday, I post in our group space to ask everyone’s goals for the week. We share our individual targets, e.g. “Write 5,000 words”.
(If you don’t reply by Wednesday, I contact you to check if everything’s going okay and if you need any extra support.)
Each Sunday, I post again to ask how you got on, tagging you and reminding you of your target. We share the progress we made.
About Ali
I write both fiction and non-fiction, and I’ve been making a living writing since 2008.
Over the years, I’ve written fiction around all kinds of situations: a full-time job, alongside studies, as a full-time freelancer, and while raising kids (they’re now 10 and 12). I know how hard it can be sometimes to see a big project like a novel through to “the end”.
During my writing journey so far, I’ve had plenty of high points, like signing a book deal for Publishing Ebooks for Dummies to publishing three novels and a novella.
But I also know the challenges involved in things like getting all the way to “The End” of a draft, wrestling a novel into shape, plucking up the courage to self-publish it or send it out to agents, and struggling to prioritise your writing in the midst of a busy life.
Throughout my whole writing journey, the feedback and support I’ve received from writing tutors, editors, and peers has been hugely valuable to me. I’ve previously offered this to others through one-to-one coaching, but I think it’s especially valuable for novelists to have the encouragement and support of a small group. It also lets you get direct, detailed feedback and advice from me at a fraction of the cost of one-to-one coaching.
Join Us Now
The novel writers’ group is just $50/week (or £37/week if you prefer to pay in GBP).
That covers everything: feedback calls, check-ins, extra resources I create for the group, etc.
It’s a six week group with no ongoing commitment.