Join The Literary Consultancy’s Self Editing Fiction course. Build your skillset and edit your own writing effectively, whether you have a first draft or are an experienced writer.

Let TLC ease you into the process of editing your own writing, a lifelong skill that can bring out your writing’s full potential.

Led by experienced tutor, editor and award-winning author Jon Barton, this course draws on TLC’s expertise and insight from three decades of working with writers. Over six weeks, you will delve into crucial elements including story structure, character development, dialogue dynamics, pacing precision, and mastering your unique style, considering each element alongside your own work. Each student receives a half hour one-to-one with Jon Barton.

TLC Courses take a hands-on approach: course modules include practical exercises that can be applied to your own work. Come with finished first drafts or works in progress and apply course thinking to your draft each week, building your own approach to editing your work in manageable pieces.

This course is open to writers of fiction and covers editing skills for all genres of fiction writing. Engage in theory, close analysis of published texts, and practical exercises, receiving personalised guidance every step of the way.

Testimonials from Self Editing Fiction with Jon Barton

“This is one of the best courses I have ever had the pleasure to take. It is so refreshing to be guided with real kindness and generosity of spirit through a daunting part of the writing process. When you are taught to evaluate your own writing, rather than feeding you information, the result is growth of confidence and a sense of resilience. I truly recommend this course.”

“The TLC Self Editing course was so very useful. Jon was brilliant. I was really struggling to be objective with it before, so the course has really made a difference to how I now approach editing my own work.”