You’ve finished your first draft. What happens next?
Join bestselling psychological thriller author Alex Stone for this live, interactive two-hour masterclass exploring how to step back from a completed draft, identify what needs strengthening and begin the process of turning it into a submission-ready manuscript.
During the session, you’ll:
- Learn how to gain distance and perspective from your first draft
- Explore how to identify larger structural issues before focusing on the detail
- Consider your novel at scene level and identify what is and isn’t earning its place
- Explore the different stages of revision and prose editing
- Consider how to work effectively with beta readers and feedback
- Understand the stages involved in moving from a completed first draft towards a submission-ready manuscript
This session is ideal whether you’ve completed a first draft, are approaching the revision stage or simply want to understand what will happen once you reach the end of your manuscript.
You’ll be able to apply the session to your own work and ask questions along the way.
Thursday 10 December 2026 | 7–9pm UK time | Live online via Google Meet
Also included: Writers’ Hub
Your booking also gives you access to the Author Events Writers’ Hub — an informal live online hour where you can ask questions, discuss how you’re applying the teaching to your own novel, and connect with Alex and other writers.
Want to continue?
This masterclass is Week 11 of Alex Stone’s 12-week Write a Psychological Thriller programme.
Each week explores a different element of writing a psychological thriller, taking you from premise, character and setting through structure, suspense, voice, twists, endings, revision and publication.
You can join individual masterclasses, book a four-week block, or take part in the complete 12-week programme.
Full 12-week programme: 1 October–17 December 2026
Thursdays, 7–9pm | Live online
The complete programme is £595, or £565 for Author Events members, and non-member full-programme bookings include 12 months’ Author Events membership.
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