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
A self-paced mini-course for aspiring storytellers
The secret to creative success is not time, money, education, or “talent.” The secret to creative success is process.
All successful creatives 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
A must-take course for writers about to start a big project
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.
Join our free literary craft club, Bibliopothecary, to read and discuss writing guides.
👈 These two beloved writing guides round out or 2026 reads
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.
100% free creative community challenges
Short Story September
September 1-30, 2025
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November Worldbuilding
November 1-30, 2026
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Foundational genre fiction courses
Write Your First Gothic Romance
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
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.
Take your novel from idea to draft
Want to make progress on your project before the end of the year?
Our small-group mentorship program provides hands-on, tailored support for fiction authors and TTRPG creatives. If you need accountability, feedback, community, activities, and resources to complete your project and achieve your dreams, this is the program for you!
31 Days of December Drafting
December 1-31, 2026
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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!
New titles coming soon to DriveThruFiction
Two new installments of our annual flash fiction and poetry anthologies:
In a Flash Volume IV
Collective Verses Volume VI
Available in print and digital on September 21, 2026
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It’s back to school storytelling time
Sport your love for all things story with official Storytelling Collective merch, including our Season of Storytelling special, the Storyteller Varsity Tee (available in three colors).
Plus, cozy embroidered hoodies, a mug to fill with something warm for those late-night writing sessions, a deskmat gaming or creativity, and more.
Order early to get your swag before the holidays!
• 100% acrylic
• 12″ (30.5 cm) knit
• Fold-over 3″ (7.6 cm) cuff
• Pom-pom on top
• One size fits most
This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!
• 100% combed and ring-spun cotton (Heather colors contain polyester)
• Fabric weight: 4.2 oz./yd.² (142 g/m²)
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• Side-seamed construction
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!
