Companion studios
The rest of the desk.
The first line is one room. These studios sit beside it — people, names, plot, the next idea, the hours in the week, and the day’s word count. All by Stewart Ferris.
A literary character workshop
Dossier
Build round characters with nine sections of lists — class, accent, desire, trauma, politics, and the lie they live by. The dossier writes itself as you choose.
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Names with meaning
Nomina
Choose a grain — origin, temper, element, role — and receive given names and surnames whose etymologies fit the character you are writing.
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A plot atlas for novelists and screenwriters
Threshold
Map a story against Campbell, Vogler, Harmon, Murdock, Hudson and Snyder — the stations of the hero’s journey, laid out so you can see where the draft actually is.
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Book ideas
Storywell
Choose a genre. Add a place, a theme, a scrap of an idea. Storywell returns a fiction story summary or a non-fiction contents list.
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The hours are already in the week
Found Time
Companion to How to Find Time to be a Writer. Locate the hidden pockets in an ordinary week and turn a small daily quota into a draft over a year.
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Log the day’s work
Quillmark
A blotter for daily word counts: set a target, watch the week and the month fill, and keep a record of the manuscript as it grows.
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