Online course for fiction writers

You’ve Written a Great Story. Now Let's Make It Impossible to Put Down!

The Emotional Editing Blueprint: Write Tighter, Feel Deeper, Hook Faster is the complete line editing system for fiction writers — teaching you to craft scenes that flow, descriptions that land, and sentences that keep readers turning pages until 2am.

Turn technically “fine” prose into writing that grips and moves readers.
Diagnose exactly why scenes feel flat, slow, or over-written.
Edit your own work with the eye of a professional line editor.

Self-paced • Lifetime access • Immediate start

Inside this course

Edit your own manuscript like a professional line editor.

Spot the hidden habits that quietly flatten your prose.
Layer thoughts, feelings, and sensations so every scene lands emotionally.
Build a repeatable system you can run on every chapter you ever write.

Perfect for revision-ready drafts

THE PROBLEM

“It felt a little flat.” “This scene kind of dragged.” — but no one can tell you why.

You've put in the work. You've got a story worth telling, characters worth caring about, and a plot that moves.
But when you hand it to a beta reader, you get feedback like:
“It felt a little flat in places.” “I wasn't really feeling it.” “This scene kind of dragged.”
And you don't know why — because nothing is technically wrong. The grammar is fine. The story makes sense. But something is missing, and you can't put your finger on what.

Here's what's actually happening:
Your scenes are built on action and dialogue alone — but the reader has no access to what your character is thinking, feeling, and experiencing in their body. The prose is telling them what happens instead of making them feel it. And your sentences, loaded with words like was, had, that, and but, are quietly draining the power from every line.

None of this is your fault. These are the exact habits every writer picks up — and almost nobody teaches you how to break them.
Until now.

If this sounds familiar…

You keep revising the same scenes but they don’t feel any sharper.
You suspect the problem is your prose, not your plot.
You’ve tried “show, don’t tell” advice but it hasn’t clicked.
You’re tired of vague feedback and want concrete tools.

You don’t need a new story. You need a new way to edit the one you’ve already written.

This course trains your eye.

When you finish the Blueprint and run it on your manuscript, here's what changes:

The crutch words that bleed power from your sentences? You'll cut them yourself — hundreds of them — in a single editing pass.
The flat scenes your beta readers couldn't quite explain? You'll know exactly what's missing and exactly how to fix it.
The descriptions that feel vague or over-written? You'll have a clear process for finding the right details and cutting the rest.

What's left is a manuscript that is tighter, more emotional, and more professional than most editors ever see walk through their door.

THE SOLUTION

Introducing The Emotional Editing Blueprint: Write Tighter, Feel Deeper, Hook Faster

The Fiction Writer's Complete Editing System

This isn't a grammar course. It's not about commas or semicolons.

This is the course that teaches you what editors charge thousands of dollars to fix — and what separates published, reader-loved fiction from the manuscript that almost made it.

You'll learn to look at your own writing with a professional eye, identify exactly what's weakening your prose, and rewrite it into something that grips, moves, and sticks.

STOP OUTSOURCING WHAT YOU CAN LEARN

Stop paying editors to fix the same problems, draft after draft.

A developmental editor runs $1,000–$5,000+ for a full manuscript. A line editor — the person whose entire job is fixing exactly what this course teaches — can cost $1,500–$4,000, depending on your word count and their experience level.

And here's the part that stings: most of what they're fixing is the same stuff. Every manuscript. Page after page of was, had, that, and but. Scenes that list action and dialogue but never let the reader inside the character's head. Descriptions that pile on adjectives instead of the one detail that actually lands.

They're not doing magic. They've just trained their eye to see what you haven't learned to see yet.

This course trains your eye.

A one-time investment that pays off every book you write.

What you’d pay an editor:
• Developmental edit: $1,000–$5,000+
• Line edit: $1,500–$4,000

What you pay for this course:
$697.00
(roughly the cost of a single editing session you'll never have to book again)

What's left when you've done this work is more than a cleaner manuscript. It's you becoming a better writer — permanently.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

A step-by-step system for emotional, unskippable prose

Each module combines short, focused lessons with before-and-after examples and practice paragraphs — so you don't just understand the concepts, you see and apply them on the page.

Module 1

The Anatomy of an Emotional Scene

Learn the 10 universal plot points applied at the scene level — so every scene you write has momentum, a turning point, and an emotional payoff, even the quiet ones between big plot events.

Module 2

Character Reactions: The Secret to Scenes That Flow

Discover why action and dialogue alone produce flat, robotic scenes — and how intentionally layering in thoughts, feelings, body language, and physical sensations transforms a scene from something that describes into something that moves.

Module 3

The Art of Description & The 5-Sensory Experience

Find out how much detail is too much (and too little), which details earn their place on the page, and how to use Chekhov's Gun so readers trust every word you write.

Learn why sensory details are neurologically the fastest route to reader emotion — and how to weave sound, smell, texture, and taste into descriptions without over-writing them.

Module 4

Visceral Words: Upgrade Your Language

Understand the difference between a word that describes and a word that evokes — and train your brain to reach for the more powerful choice every time.

Module 5

The Big Four Crutch Words — and How to Cut Them

Master the editing process for the four words that quietly weaken nearly every sentence they touch:

• Was — the gateway to passive, powerless prose
• Had — the word that creates distance and slows your pace
• But — overused as a crutch connector that flattens your sentences
• That — the invisible filler you can cut by the hundreds in a single pass

Plus: strategies for almost, very, began, started, been, and more.

Is The Emotional Editing Blueprint right for you?

Here’s who will get the most out of this course — and who’s better served by a different resource.

THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU IF:

You've finished a draft and know something is off, but can't identify what.
You've gotten feedback that your writing "feels flat" or scenes "drag".
You're self-editing and want a clear, systematic process instead of guessing.
You're querying agents or self-publishing and want prose that stands up to professional standards.
You want to stop making these mistakes in the first draft so editing takes less time.

THIS COURSE IS NOT FOR YOU IF:

You're looking for grammar and punctuation help (that's copy editing — a different thing).
You haven't written any fiction yet and need story structure from scratch (check out Fiction by Design for that).

Not sure where you fall? If you have words on the page and you're ready to make them sharper, more emotional, and more professional, you'll feel at home here.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

More than tips — a brain-level upgrade to how you write and edit.

Most writing advice tells you what good prose looks like. This course shows you exactly how to get there — with before-and-after examples, practice paragraphs, and a repeatable editing system you can apply to every chapter you'll ever write.

You won't just learn the rules. You'll train your brain to apply them automatically, until writing tight, emotional, visceral prose becomes your default — not something you have to think about.

Inside The Emotional Editing Blueprint, you will:

INSTEAD OF

Collecting random tips from craft books and blog posts you never quite implement…

YOU WILL

Follow a clear, repeatable editing sequence you can run on every scene.

INSTEAD OF

Hoping beta readers can explain why something "feels off"…

YOU WILL

Diagnose the exact sentence-level problems and fix them yourself.

WHAT STUDENTS SAY

Soon: real words from writers whose prose you won’t be able to put down.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Liesel Hill

Published author, critique group leader, and the person who has already fixed every one of these mistakes in her own work so she can show you exactly how.

Hi, I'm Liesel

I'm a USA Today Best-Selling Author, Story Clarity Coach, Founder of 6 Figure Storyteller, and host of the Fiction Story Blueprint podcast.

I help authors and aspiring authors write highly emotional stories using elements of psychology, spirituality, and energetics, with an emphasis on the author's unique, subconscious creativity.

After years of struggling with my own fiction, I developed a proprietary system for infusing every part of a novel with majestic emotion. Most fiction craft teachings only touch the surface of storytelling, focusing on plot, action, and the 3D elements. Few authors consider or even know about the deeper spiritual, psychological, and energetic elements that constitute the foundation and true nature of story.

My methods are celebrated for providing both a deep understanding and mastery of storytelling, as well as practical, step-by-step processes that produce epic, successful results and often mind-blown students. 🤯

USA Today Best-Selling Author
Writes across 4 Genres
15+ years' experience writing fiction
Teaches a unique approach to fiction writing, using energetics, psychology, and subconscious creativity.
Creator of the Legendary Fiction Forge
Host of the Fiction Story Blueprint podcast

Ready to make your prose impossible to put down?

Join us inside The Emotional Editing Blueprint: Write Tighter, Feel Deeper, Hook Faster and create a manuscript so clean, you won’t hesitate to put it in front of agents, editors, or readers.

What you get inside:

Full, step-by-step video curriculum.
Downloadable checklists and editing templates.
Before-and-after examples from real fiction pages.
Practice paragraphs with guided solutions.
Lifetime access and all future updates.

Plus the confidence of knowing why every line on the page is doing its job.

Enroll in The Emotional Editing Blueprint

One-time payment of $697.00
Payment plan options available at checkout, if you prefer.

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Edit Emotions Into Your Scenes
Master Scene Pacing
Character Reactions
5 Senses for Emotion
Full Weak/Crutch Word Protocal
Example stories for implementation
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Master Scene Pacing
Character Reactions
5 Senses for Emotion
Full Weak/Crutch Word Protocal
Example stories for implementation
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Questions, meet answers.

If you're on the fence, these might help. And if you still have questions, you can always add a contact link or email here.

How much time will this course take?

There are 4 modules. Mods 1-3 each have between 1 and 4 videos, and they're all only around 5 minutes long. Module 4 has a lot more videos, for each individual case, but most of them are only 2-3 minutes long. Still, you can theoretically get through the entire course in an hour or two.

The real transformation happens, however, when you apply the system to your own pages, and that's going to take longer. Learning to edit this way is a skill and takes practice in order to master it. You may get a few brain cramps along the way, but if you keep it at it, you'll master it. And be a better writer than most.

Most writers find the most success by working through one module at a time and immediately run the process on a chapter or two, then come back for the next layer.

What level of writer is this for?

If you’ve written at least a few chapters of fiction and you’re ready to revise, you’re at the right level. You do not need to be published. You just need basic comfort putting words on the page and a desire to make them stronger.

Does this cover grammar and punctuation?

No. This is a line editing and emotional craft course, not a copy editing course. We focus on clarity, flow, emotional impact, and sentence-level power — not commas and semicolons.

We're to a point now where AI can help you with grammar. No need to pay me for that. Here, we're looking to punch readers in the feels. It's a whole other ballgame.

How long do I have access to the material?

You get lifetime access to all course materials, including any future updates. You can revisit the lessons every time you draft a new book.

What if I write in [your genre here]?

The principles in this course apply across genres — from romance to fantasy to literary fiction. Emotional clarity, strong description, and tight sentences are genre-agnostic skills.