Downloads

The Artifact Worksheet (accompanies The Artifact: How to Create a Story of Any Size)

FREE DOWNLOAD. Listen to our episode and work along with us to build YOUR Octopus Map — the tool that will prevent your series from running amok or dying in the middle. INCLUDES Holly’s original Octopus Map for her Longview Series as a demo of a completed map. (This map was the primary tool used for the writing and completion of the entire series).

Worksheets for Episode [NUMBER]: Build Your Own Sweet Spot Map

The 2020 New Year’s Episode on how to NOT create New Year’s Resolutions that fail — How to instead start a process that will teach you how to set workable goals that SUCCEED.

Every variety of fiction benefits from both language building and culture building. And language and culture create great opportunities for telling deep, meaningful stories. So…

Download and print off your worksheets so you can play along with us in this episode.

Step-by-step humor-building worksheet for Episode 69: Writing Funny – Putting Humor into Fiction

Step by step process for turning an unmanageable big conflict into a compelling series of interesting scenes.

Holly Lisle fills out the worksheet while building yet another “Book she now wants to write.”

This worksheet goes with AIARWIP Episode 57, in which Holly and Becca create Novel Tie-In Sentences.

Holly is built hers from scratch while Becca is working from her Fulton Hills world.

This worksheets goes with AIARWIP Episode 53, in which Holly and Becca do quick worldbuilding by asking simple questions and then chasing the answers to find important elements of their stories.

Holly is building for her new urban fantasy Ohio series, Becca is building out a side branch of her Fulton Hills series.

Scanned copy of Holly’s worksheets used in this episode. Helpful to see exactly how you use the worksheets.

This is a really ugly PDF of my worksheets, which I threw away before I could scan them. Fortunately, I sent pictures of them to Becky before the show so she could see how I’d done the sheets.

These are pretty readable grayscale of those photographs.

The most effective way to learn to write in a new genre is to read existing books in the genre and understand which parts of them connect with you… and which parts don’t.

Along with Episode 28, these worksheets will work you through the process of learning the genre you want to write.

Holly filled out the worksheets from one of her two demo artifacts. You can use her examples as one way to approach the questions you answer on your own. (Yes, smartass + puns is ONE way to build a novel idea)

In this short demonstration workshop, you’ll a complete, effective story world in five minutes that will improve your story’s:

• types of conflict
• variety of characters
• potential for compelling events, As well as…
• your immersion as a writer
• your reader’s immersion

Learn the “Wall and Ball” techniques for doing story brainstorming sessions with a partner, using the ideas you came up with on your Episode 4 story brainstorming worksheets (below) as your starting point.

Want help brainstorming story ideas? Listen to Episodes 4 & 5: Brainstorming Fiction, and work along with us as we build out brand new story ideas.

Rebecca’s “live in the podcast” worksheets. Not completely filled out, because we were on the clock.

These are incompletely filled out because we were doing this live and running against a clock. Take the time to fill yours out completely.