I keep my working craft notes on one page of this site. It's called Writing Resources, and reaching it costs nothing but a free account.
I mean the actual notes. The template I fill in before I name a character. The ten-part slog I went through to build a believable world for my own books. The exercises I run to shake a scene loose when I'm stuck. I wrote them down to teach them to myself, then cleaned them up so they'd earn their keep for you too.
Why put free things behind a login? Two honest reasons. A free account lets me hand you the member-only pieces, like the downloadable character template and the exercises workbook, without dumping them on the open web. And it puts you in the community, where you can argue with me in the comments and tell me where I got it wrong.
Registering takes a minute. After that the whole page opens up. It's sorted into four sections now, three craft tracks and a shelf of tools, and you can walk one in order or raid it for the single thing you need tonight.
Characters
Start here if your people feel flat on the page. This track walks through the character template I actually use, from the first physical detail all the way to the fear an enemy can exploit in act three. If you only read two, make them part 3 on weaknesses and part 4 on motivation. Those are the ones that turn a competent cardboard cutout into someone a reader worries about.
World Building
Ten parts plus a bonus, laid out in the order I'd build a world from nothing. Culture and cosmology first, then laws, then politics and money, then the ground itself, then magic. Part 9 pulls the whole thing into a single opening scene so you can watch the method work on the page. Parts 5 and the Challenge & Response follow-up are the two readers argue with me about most, which is exactly why I like them.
Writing Exercises
For the nights when you want to write and the page won't cooperate. Free writing to warm up, then a numbered set that moves from character work, to describing a place you've never been, to bringing an object to life, to sketching conflict, to outlining a plot, and finally drafting a whole short story. The workbook gathers them in one place, and the Ulysses piece shows how I run the set in my own writing app.
Tools
The business side of being an author. Two market analyses so you can see what sci-fi and fantasy readers are actually buying in 2026, a reference for vetting creative freelancers before you pay them, and the social strategy guides I put together from my own TikTok and Instagram testing. This is the work that starts after the writing stops.
Where to start
If you've never poked around the page before, register, open the character template, and fill it in for whoever you're writing right now. Do it honestly and the thin spots in the character show up fast.
The Writing Resources page is free. So is the account. All I ask in return is that you use the comments and tell me what's working and what isn't.
