Dream, create, make things
Do it for the little you who loved to write, draw, and craft doll houses out of shoeboxes.
Go make something. Anything. If you're being creative, you're being human and giving a middle-finger to those who try to reduce us to dollar signs.
And if you don't know what to focus on, where to start, or what to do with the zero-gravity masquerade you just thought of, our workbooks will help. Just open and start crafting a story in the next ten minutes.
If you don't want them, that's good too. As long as you're making something, the world is better off.
Write your novel with guidance from published authors
If you're still here and ready to write out of passion or simple spite, here's how we can help you kickstart your imagination and your novel, so it's the best it can be from the start.
The Essential Bundle for Fantasy and Sci-fi Writers is five how-to guides and workbooks that get you creating in under an hour.
They cover worldbuilding, character creation, arcs, story structure, and plotting.
Here's abreakdown of absolutely everything you get and why you should even give a fuck.
Play god: The Essential Worldbuilding Blueprint and Workbook
Across 18 chapters and interactive worksheets, you'll build a fictional world so wondrous you'll want to move there.
Available in PDF, Word, and Scrivener.
Here's what you'll learn:
🌍 Worldbuilding methods: Turn the feelings of overwhelm into a plan by choosing the right starting point for your world.
⭐ Stars and Planets: Give your world an awe-inspiring sky, even if the only thing you know about astronomy is that stars are far away,
🧭 Locations: Geography and Climate: Build accurate regions, continents, and planets with cheat sheets on geographic features and their effect on the environment.
👽 Fictional Beings: Animals, Aliens, & Paranormals: Whether creating a new kind of vampire or a dog-tiger hybrid, make all your species feel realistic enough that they could step out of a zoology book.
🌲 Ecosystem: It sounds overwhelming, but there's actually a simple way to create an entire ecosystem for your world. We'll give you the skills to do it.
🔮 Magic: Craft a wondrous magical system and weave it into every part of your setting, so it feels grounded and real.
👻 Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: This is the chapter for writers who blend magic, paranormal elements, and the modern world. You'll learn how to meld them together into a thrilling setting.
🧪 Science: Break the laws of physics by giving your world different natural laws or just explore how science fits into the rest of your setting.
🚀 Technology: Learn a simple method for crafting detailed systems of technology (fantasy writers, you need this too! Tech is more than just computers).
👩⚖️ Social Structures (family, government, economy, law): Develop a society of cozy goblins, a coven of ancient vampires, a complex alien civilization, and everything in between.
💖 Values and Ethics: Create the basis of a rich culture using a technique almost no one talks about.
🕌 Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy: From gods to saints to great thinkers, develop belief systems that fit with every other part of your world.
📖 History: Create your world's historical timeline without spending an era on an endless list of events. You just need four questions instead.
After you build the essentials of your world, flesh it out with worksheets on:
🏠 Art, Fashion, and Architecture: Give your world some style and fair based on its society, culture, species, religion, and history.
🎲 Games, Sports, and Holidays: Tie your world's pastimes to its culture, values, and religion.
Develop iconic characters: The Essential Character Creation Blueprint and Workbook
15 chapters and interactive worksheets to help you create memorable characters like a bestselling author—even if you're a new writer.
Available in PDF, Word, and Scrivener.
😎 What Makes a Compelling Character + Where to Start: Learn why some characters become fan favorites while others cause readers to groan when they show up.
🧠 Body, Senses, and Mind: Get to know your characters by crawling inside their skin to experience their body and mind.
💁♂️ Traits and Flaws: This is more than a simple list of traits. Create a template for your character's actions to make them more realistic and your writing process easier.
🔃 Contradictions: Add complexity to any character with a method that takes less time than waiting for your laptop to finish updating.
👩👩👧 Social Values and Expectations: Get a step-by-step system to tie together character and worldbuilding to make them richer and more believable.
💖 Relationships: Many new writers skip this part! Learn how to use relationships to make every character as real as your best friend.
❌ Ethics: Decide on the lines your character will not cross and use those to develop binge-worthy plots and conflicts (or just torture them for the delicious drama).
🤔 Perspectives About the World: Turn a character from a shambling zombie to a living, breathing being by diving into their deepest beliefs.
📘 Skills and Knowledge: Combine abilities with personality to make your character a complete whole (rather than a pile of disjointed parts like a bin of dolls at a thrift store).
👻 Lies, Truths, and Ghosts: Give your character an arc so powerful that it'll turn readers into obsessive fans.
🍨 Wants and Needs: Discover how to write a relatable character, even if their hobby is watching TikTok at the movie theater.
🏠 Normal Life: Add unexpected sources of conflict and depth that many writers overlook.
🖖 Appearance and Gestures: Learn a simple method for using physical descriptions to give every character a unique POV.
🤩 Defining Introductory Moment: Start your novel so strong that readers keep turning the pages until a bookstore employee tells them it's closing time.
Plot a novel: 10-Minute Crash Course in Story Structure and Novel Tracker
Quick bite-sized info about plotting a novel, even if you've never done it before. It comes with a matching spreadsheet for organizing your story beats.
Available in PDF. The tracker is an Excel spreadsheet.
💻 Write a story readers won't be able to put down with story beats for the beginning, middle, and end of your novel.
🤗 Keep your plot exciting, even in "slow" chapters, with scene turning points.
⚔ Create a meaningful story by balancing these two types of conflict.
☕ Draft a book that’s more addictive than freshly ground artisanal coffee by hitting all the right story beats at the right time.
📋 Make sure character arcs are consistent and logical by recording the arcs for every main character in one place.
🕳 Avoid plot holes by knowing exactly what happens in every scene.
⏩ Use it right away with no learning curve. If you've ever made a spreadsheet, you can use the tracker (and without the mind-boggling equations!)
Turn random ideas into a story: The Pando Tree Method
Detailed guide and hands-on printable worksheets for brainstorming, organizing, and planning.
🤯 Combine your unrelated ideas into a coherent story in 20 minutes, even if you’re overwhelmed and have no idea where to start.
📖 Use all your varied interests to create worlds, characters, and plots that are new, different, and uniquely yours while still being coherent and logical.
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Created by published authors (who used to write novels while working soul-crushing day jobs)
We're a team of bestselling authors and editors. Together, we've collectively published more than 50 novels.
Eva Delaney: Author of over 20 books in space opera, paranormal romance/urban fantasy, and romantic comedy.
Candice Lee MacAulay: A USA Today best-selling novelist with 30+ books published under multiple pen names and genres, including romance, urban fantasy, and non-fiction.
Andrew Cesario: An editor and proofer for sci-fi, fantasy, and game books with over five years of publishing experience as an indie author.
