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The Studio, 2 months later
In July I opened the Studio at charlieforet.com/studio and introduced it with a promise of one post per tool. The Character Template came next. Then the series stopped. Or it might have looked that way. Since then I've written the Workshop posts, on how and why I built my own pla…
The New Character Template
The Character Template: Build a Character You Can Come Back To Every writer has a graveyard of half-finished character sheets. Mine used to live in Word documents named things like char_notes_FINAL_v3.docx. The template was fine. The problem was everything around it: no consisten…
Introducing the Studio
Craft Tools Accessible from Anywhere Most of the tools we lean on as writers live somewhere else. The character sheet is a Word doc in a folder we forget the name of. The worldbuilding notes are scattered across three apps. The "read it out loud and catch the lumps" pass happens …
Making Time to Write
As the new year gets started, it has become a challenge to find time to write. Work takes a lot of time, focus, and writing so the last thing I’m motivated to do is sit down and work on a story at the end of the day. As part of my ongoing learning journey relating to Generative…