Season of Storytelling
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Learn
Explore, build, and hone your creative process so that you can accomplish your creative dreams! These two approachable and actionable courses will guide you through discovering your creative self and developing a process unique to you and your life.
Identifying Your Creative Heartbeat
The secret to creative success is not time, money, education, or “talent.” The secret to creative success is process.
All successful creatives — your favorite authors, filmmakers, photographers, illustrators — have a tried-and-true but adaptable creative process that is unique to them. What’s your process?
Identifying Your Creative Heartbeat is a self-paced, activity-based course that will help you develop a creative process by thinking through who you are as a creative person. Five engaging lessons and accompanying worksheets will give you tangible takeaways you can put into practice immediately!
Cultivating Your Writing Mindset
You have this dream for a reason. The stories you want to tell are waiting for you—no one else can tell them. Your voice matters.
The goal behind this course is to help you overcome creative blocks and take your first step toward making your dream project a reality.
During this 31-day course, we’ll take a deep dive into the blocks that have been standing in the way between you and creating the project of your dreams. And while you might not finish that project during the course (that depends a lot on how big your project is!), you will make progress on your project.
And progress, as we’ll discover together, is what it’s all about.
Write
Put your creative process into practice with our writing courses, free creative challenges, and publishing opportunities. Develop your stories step-by-step with guidance and a supportive global creative community.
Write Your First Gothic Romance
If you're interested in stories about distressed heroines and brooding lovers, looming castles and ominous manors, wispy dresses swirling to waltzes, and ancient curses whispered by candlelight, then you're in the right place! 🕯️
Write Your First Gothic Romance is a five-lesson activity-based course designed to give you an overview of the basic elements of mid-century gothic romance fiction, along with tips and techniques for crafting a moody, suspenseful tale.
At the end of this course, you'll apply what you've learned to outline—and then write—a 3,000-word short story in the style of classic gothic romances.
Write Your First Sword & Sorcery Story
If you're interested in tales of untamed warriors and corrupt sorcerers, flashing swords and forbidden rituals, and fierce action amid haunted ruins, then you're in the right place! ⚔️
Write Your First Sword & Sorcery Story is a five-lesson activity-based course designed to give you an overview of the basic elements of classic sword & sorcery fiction, along with tips and techniques for crafting an atmospheric, action-packed tale.
At the end of this course, you'll apply what you've learned to outline—and then write—a 3,000-word short story in the style of classic sword & sorcery fiction.
#StoCoFanfic Challenge
October 16-31, 2024
Join us for a 100% free two-week-long writing challenge, complete with guidance on getting started with fanfiction, prompts, and fun resources!
Why write fanfiction?
➡️ The short answer? Because it's FUN!
➡️ The long answer? Because there are a ton of benefits for writers.
Writers often forget that the most important person they should write for is themselves! Fanfiction is the perfect reminder that writing can, and should be, indulgent.
It's a great way to practice your writing craft. Make use of existing plots, settings, characters, and more, and reimagine those elements without starting from scratch.
Find a community, and even build an audience for your other writing, by using fanfic for friendship and creative networking
November Worldbuilding Challenge
November 1-30, 2024
Join us for a 100% free monthlong writing challenge, complete with lessons, activities, resources, and guidance on developing your own original, fictional world
Any narrative you write requires worldbuilding, and we're here help to you start your journey into designing the immersive, detailed world of your dreams! The goal of this challenge is to have fun, be creative, and make a world unlike anything you've ever seen—because you are building it.
Register for four weeks of worldbuilding, where we'll break down the basics and provide fun activities that will help you on your creative journey.
Read
Curl up by the fire with a mug of something warm and a sumptuous collection of stories or poems written by our talented global creative community and published by our official imprint, Scribemind Books.
Order by November 24 to receive the books by Christmas!
