Your Course

Our self-guided writing courses are built for clarity, momentum, and real-world growth. Each lesson follows a step-by-step progression that builds core skills without overwhelming you. You’ll learn the “why” behind every technique, so you can apply it with confidence in your own voice.

Your Voice

Quillwyn, our purpose-built AI writing coach, gives feedback tailored to your style—not someone else’s. It’s trained on the same skill framework as the course, offering clear guidance and practical practice without rewriting your voice. Whether you’re revising a novel or a single sentence, Quillwyn meets you where you are.

Sentence-Level Mechanics Courses

Adverb Overuse

Adverbs are like glitter—use too much and no one takes you seriously.
(...Seriously.)

This course teaches you how to spot weak adverbs, replace them with stronger verbs and imagery, and write with sharp, clean impact.

Redundancy & Wordiness

Cut the clutter out of your writing so your writing isn't cluttered with clutter.

This course teaches you how to spot and cut redundant or wordy phrasing so your writing stays clear, sharp, and effortlessly readable.

Sentence Variety

What no one ever asked for: literary elevator music. (Unless you’re, y’know… an elevator.)

This course teaches you how to vary sentence length and structure so your writing feels dynamic, deliberate, and anything but background noise.

Passive Voice

Learn how to give your verbs backbone so your nouns don't get away with murder.

This course teaches you how to spot passive voice, understand why it weakens your writing, and confidently rewrite your sentences with clarity and power.

Unclear Pronouns

Unclear pronouns: because readers definitely wanted to solve a logic puzzle mid-sentence.

This course teaches you how to spot and fix vague pronouns so your reader always knows who’s doing what, when it’s happening, and who it’s happening to.

Run-on Sentences

Technically, it’s one sentence; emotionally, it’s a hostage situation.

This course teaches you how to recognize and correct run-on sentences, ensuring your writing remains clear, controlled, and easy to follow.

Flat Description

When words show up, but imagination doesn’t.

This course teaches you how to spot flat descriptions and replace them with vivid, specific imagery that brings your scenes and characters to life.

Show vs. Tell

She says she’s fine. The lamp she just threw says otherwise.

This course teaches you how to move beyond naming emotions and actions so your writing shows what’s really happening—through behavior, detail, and subtext.

Anchoring Emotion in Action

Let the action leave us biting our fingernails.

This course teaches you how to express emotion through action and behavior, so your characters feel real—and your scenes hit harder without ever saying “she felt.”

Overexplaining

When explanations have explanations.

This course teaches you how to recognize when you're overexplaining—and how to trust your sentences, your scenes, and your reader to carry the meaning without all the extra noise.

Missing Image Hierarchy

Imagine hanging an artist’s masterpiece in the bathroom while their sketches hang in the living room.

This course teaches you how to find the image that actually matters—and stop lesser metaphors from stealing the spotlight.

Neutral POV Description

Someone cried, somewhere, about something.

This course teaches you how to avoid emotionally distant narration by choosing a clear point of view and grounding your descriptions in what your characters actually see, feel, and care about.

Style & Clarity Courses

POV and Head Hopping

When everyone’s talking, no one’s listening.

This course teaches you how to choose and maintain a consistent point of view, so your story stays focused, immersive, and emotionally grounded

Identifying the Strongest Image in a Sentence

The frame is right, but the painting is behind the fridge.

This course teaches you how to find the most vivid image in your sentence and structure your language so it leads the moment—not hides behind it.

Structure & Scene Craft Courses

Lack of Scene Anchoring

Learn how to keep your characters from squatting in narrative uncertainty.

This course teaches you how to anchor your scenes with clear physical, temporal, and sensory cues, so your characters exist in a vivid, grounded world

Dialogue Weakness

Weak dialogue … It’s like flat soda.

This course teaches you how to write dialogue that sounds natural, reveals character, and actually moves the scene forward.

Dialogue That Sounds Like People

Robots? Not that fun to listen to.

This course teaches you how to write dialogue that sounds natural, distinct, and human.

Info-Dumping

Learn how to build immersive worlds—without writing a Wikipedia entry.

This course teaches you how to weave world-building details into action and dialogue, so your story remains immersive, alive, and free from exposition overload.

Flat Conflict

Learn to write dramatic dialogue that actually brings the drama.

This course teaches you how to craft dialogue that’s charged with emotion, subtext, and intention.

Rhythm, Tension, and Flow

The difference between a sentence that walks… and one that dances with a knife behind its back.

This course teaches you how to shape sentences and scenes with momentum, pacing, and tension.

Scene Grounding and Movement

Scene grounding: because even imaginary people need furniture.

This course teaches you how to clearly orient the reader in space and time, track character movement, and build scenes that feel physically real

Backstory Without Breaking Momentum

When the backstory floods - suddenly the scene’s underwater.

This course teaches you how to weave backstory into your narrative without derailing momentum.

Stakes, Desire, and Tension

Writing without stakes or tension is like lukewarm tea - you could drink it, but why?

This course teaches you how to raise the stakes, clarify your characters’ desires, and build tension that keeps readers hooked

Punctuation That Works Course

Punctuation That Works

One rogue comma can turn a masterpiece into a legal liability.

This course teaches you how to use punctuation for clarity, rhythm, and tone.