"I sold my novel, Radiant Shimmering Light, to HarperCollins Canada a few weeks after I finished the 90 Day Rewrite. It’s now been published in four countries and optioned for a TV series. The 90 Day method is compassionate, sane, and leaves space for mystery (which I love).”
- Sarah Selecky (author of Radiant Shimmering Light, published by HarperCollins)
“Al Watt’s 90-Day Novel is the ultimate gift to writers—an incubator for the stories you want to bring to the page from a place of emotional truth and from your heart. I wish I’d known about Al when I wrote my first novel. His mastery of story fills in the missing pieces and he guides you to your best work. Thank you Al!”
- Sarah Lovett (internationally bestselling author of Dangerous Attachments and Dantes’ Inferno, Gallery Books; and co-author of Blowback and Burned, Signet Books, with outed CIA NOC Valerie Plame)
“I went out and bought a book called The 90-Day Novel, by Alan Watt. It’s ridiculous, claiming that anybody can write a great book, and quickly too. [. . .] But it ended up as an Oulipian thing, [. . .] it was actually interesting to conform to the rules.”
- Ottessa Moshfegh (2016 ManBooker Prize finalist for Eileen, Penguin Random House)
“Al Watt is a master teacher with a brilliant, intuitive understanding of story.”
- Allen Zadoff (author of The Unknown Assassin Series, Little Brown Books)
“The 90-Day Novel teleconference workshop taught me so much on so many different levels, that I don’t know where to start. The first thing I learned was that by putting in the daily hours and allowing myself to write poorly, the story got written, despite myself. Al is not only a brilliant writing teacher, but a spiritual guide and that is what sets him apart from any other writing teacher. I don’t mean this in a new-agey way, I mean that he guides us to find the answers within — he gently nudges us towards our truth and it’s from that place that our stories emerge. I started the class with an idea — that was it, and I wasn’t even sure that it would work as a novel. 90 days later I have a story (over 500 pages) with characters who have come alive and have used me to tell the story of their transformation. I think in any other class, it would have taken me years to gain the understanding that the last 90 days has given me. My characters have changed and so have I. I can’t thank Al enough.”
- Sophie Uliano (New York Times bestselling author of Gorgeously Green as seen on Oprah)
“Alan Watt’s The 90-Day Novel is a treasure trove of insight, not only for beginners or aspiring writers but for grizzled old-timers like myself, who can profit, always, from revisiting the fundamentals and First Principles of the writer’s calling. Two thumbs up!”
- Steven Pressfield (bestselling author of The War of Art, Black Irish Entertainment LLC)
“For years I have been fascinated by the industry legend of how Alan Watt wrote his masterful novel, Diamond Dogs, in 90 days. Now, at last, he shares his secrets. The 90-Day Novel is smart, insightful, thorough and wise. It’s also one of the best books on novel writing I have ever seen. I feel confident that anyone who takes this program seriously will have a solid manuscript to show for the effort.”
- David Liss (national bestselling author of Edgar Award winner A Conspiracy of Paper, Ballantine Books)
Instructor Alan Watt is the Creative Director of L.A. Writers' Lab, national bestselling author, and award-winning filmmaker. He founded L.A. Writers’ Lab in 2002 as a place for writers to deepen their craft by learning to marry the rigor of structure to the freedom of the muse. He has taught everyone from award-winning authors to A-list screenwriters, journalists, poets, actors, professional athletes, war veterans, housewives, doctors, lawyers, television showrunners, Emmy-winning directors, first-time writers, and anyone else with a story to tell.