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Companion studios.
Found Time
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The companion to How to Find Time to Be a Writer. Find the hours already hiding in the week, and keep a first draft moving.
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Quillmark
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A daily word-count tracker. Log the day’s work, keep a target, and set a manuscript length that fits the shelf.
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The First Line
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Why a novel’s opening sentence matters, with famous first lines and an editorial reading of your own.
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Dossier
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A character tool in nine lists: class, accent, desire, trauma, politics, and the lie they live by.
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Nomina
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Character names whose etymologies fit. Pick origin, temper, element, or role, and take the names that match.
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Threshold
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A hero’s-journey atlas. Compare Campbell, Vogler, Harmon, and others, then log the beats of your own story.
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Storywell
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A book-idea generator. Choose a genre and a scrap of an idea, and get a fiction summary or a non-fiction contents list.
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How to Write a Novel
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A free course: word count, first draft, characters, chapters, plot, description, and revision.
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The Poet’s Craft
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Metre, rhyme, imagery, free verse, and traditional forms, plus UK competitions and presses.
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Write Anyway
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Exercises, prompts, and timed sprints for when the page will not start. No muse required.
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Word Census
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A word-frequency checker. Upload a chapter, see what you repeat, and consider the synonyms.
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The Writing Circle
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Writing groups near you and online. Search by city, genre, and whether the room is a critique or a write-in.
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The YA Desk
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Young-adult fiction: age range, tropes, word counts, sub-genres, and books teenagers actually finish.
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The Scriptorium
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Historical fiction: research, period voice, tropes, and word counts, without turning the dialogue into a museum.
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