Start Your Novel

today!

Welcome to the Start Your Novel series of in-person workshops and online courses.
Part of the Whole Novel Life methodology for novel writers
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For Novel Dreamers taking the next step…

1-to-1 Novel Navigating

1-to-1 novel mentoring
1 hour
€85

€50

Until the end of Jan 2026 only!

Let’s navigate your Novel Journey together!

Get €35 OFF per session until END OF JAN 2026!

Get 1-to-1 support for your novel journey.
With the Whole Novel  Life methodology.

Use this time to:

  • Plan your next steps.
  • Unravel what has you stuck.
  • Get motivation and inspiration to keep going with your novel.
  • Get novel craft help so that you can find your flow again.

UPCOMING In-Person Workshops

TBD 2026
10am to 1pm
€50

Novel Dreamers Do

a 3-hour workshop to support your writing process
This workshop will be at the Coastguard Cultural Centre in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
It’s a day of remembering your writing dreams and planning out the next 6 months of writing. A workshop on what gets us stuck and how to get unstuck in the middle of your novel. We finish with the next steps for your writing journey.

NOTE: This is a standalone workshop to support novel writers at any stage of their novel. 

TBD 2026
10am to 3pm
€70

Your Novel Idea

Workshop 1 of the Start Your Novel series.
This workshop will be at the Coastguard Cultural Centre in Tramore, Co. Waterford. 
Your whole life’s experience and your imagination feed into the ideas you will come up with for your Novel’s Characters, the Situation, and Plot of your novel.
From these ideas, you can start your first draft and continue to use these ideas while you’re writing and revising your Novel.

NOTE: This workshop can be taken on its own. 

TBD 2026
10am to 3pm
€70

Your First Draft

Workshop 2 of the Start Your Novel series.
This workshop will be at the Coastguard Cultural Centre in Tramore, Co. Waterford.
It’s a day of diving deeper into character development, description, locations, plotting of your novel’s first draft.
Understand your capacity and ways to reclaim and recognise you, the writer, to keep you on your novel writing journey.

NOTE: This workshop can be taken on its own. A recap of Your Novel Idea workshop is given. 

TBD 2026
10am to 1pm
€50

Your Revised Draft

Workshop 3 of the Start Your Novel series.
This workshop will be at the Coastguard Cultural Centre in Tramore, Co. Waterford.

You’ve written a first draft, or perhaps you’ve just started one or are partway into it – and you’re thinking, so what happens next? 

After your first draft, after perhaps leaving your novel for a little while, learn about the next stages to revise your novel.
Learn a variety of techniques to tackle your novel revisions by yourself or the revision process if you decide to pay an editor instead.

NOTE: This workshop can be taken on its own.

this is your Novel, this is your Whole Novel Life

Self-directed Online Courses

Self-directed learning
Instant access
€67

Your Novel Idea

Part of the Whole Novel  Life methodology.
Your whole life’s experience and your imagination feed into the ideas you will come up with for your Novel’s Characters, the Situation, and Plot of your novel.
From these ideas, you can start your first draft and continue to use these ideas while you’re writing and revising your Novel.
This online course includes 9 videos with captions, video transcripts, and a 14-page workbook.

Self-directed learning
Instant access
€97

Your First Draft

Part of the Whole Novel  Life methodology.
Go deeper into your novel with character development, description, place, and plotting so that you can start your first draft with confidence. 
This online course includes 9 videos with captions, video transcripts, and a 14-page workbook.

Self-directed learning
Instant access
€67

Your Revised Draft

Part of the Whole Novel  Life methodology.
After the first draft, these are the next stages to revise your novel. 
This online course will include videos with captions, video transcripts, and a workbook.

for novel dreamers and imaginers…

…start dreaming…

Picture of Cecilia Carelse with text from her novel behind her and flowers in front

Hi, I'm Cecilia

I’m a Novel Navigator.

I help you do your novel, trust your journey, overcome self-doubt and make novel writing a part of your life.

For over a decade, I’ve facilitated writers in creative and novel writing groups.

Trained with the Cert. in Creative Writing for Publication and the Two Roads program at Maynooth University (Kilkenny Campus) with Suzanne Power and John MacKenna.

Received a Regional Bursary (Literature) residency award for the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

I write science fiction: author of ‘The Alien Eve’, have poetry and short fiction in two anthologies ‘Hammered Glass’ and ‘Word Weavers: A First Anthology’.

I know the dream of being a novel writer and I know that taking the first step of anything can be the hardest thing to do. It is both scary and exciting to want to write a novel.

Remember, you’re already a writer.

Book your place to learn novel craft online or in-person to create your novel writing journey.

This is for Novel Dreamers.
For your novel.

Start your Whole Novel Life.

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