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The Craft Workbook Bundle in print: The Plot, Character, and World Building Workbooks together
The three craft workbooks in print on a writing desk
The Craft Workbook Bundle in use, print edition
The Plot Workbook, print edition, part of The Craft Workbook Bundle
The Character Workbook, print edition, part of The Craft Workbook Bundle
The World Building Workbook, print edition, part of The Craft Workbook Bundle
Interior pages from The Plot Workbook
Interior pages from The Character Workbook
Interior pages from The World Building Workbook
The printable pages included with the print edition's instant download
The digital editions included with the print edition's instant download
Close-up of an interior page from The Plot Workbook
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The Craft Workbook Bundle: Print Edition

The three craft workbooks together in print: The Plot Workbook, The Character Workbook, and The World Building Workbook. Each takes one part of a novel and works it at depth, with worked examples, six case studies, forty worksheets, and a set of reference pages. They share one design, and each points to the others where the work crosses over: a character's choice that has to drive the plot, a world that has to press on the people in it.

Work through them in any order. Start with the part of the book that feels thinnest, and come back to the others as the draft asks for them.

The print edition includes the instant download of all three, so you can start on the digital editions while your books are printed.

$95.00
Print edition

Three books, each 7 × 10 in, softcover, perfect bound: The Plot Workbook (182 pages), The Character Workbook (170 pages), and The World Building Workbook (174 pages). Black-and-white interiors: guide pages, case studies, worksheets, and reference pages. Printed to order and sent as one order.

Instant download (included)

Digital editions: all three workbooks as PDFs with full-color covers, linked indexes, section bookmarks, and fillable worksheets. They work in GoodNotes, Notability, and other PDF annotation apps.

Printables: each full workbook set up for printing at home (181, 170, and 174 pages, with printer-friendly section dividers), and each book's Worksheets Bundle: every worksheet and reference page from all three books (120 worksheets and tools and 16 reference pages), in book order. All of it comes in US Letter, A4, and A5.

The Plot Workbook

Building story through cause, consequence, and change. The five forces of plot, from premise to story question, structures from three acts to kishōtenketsu, scenes and rhythm, and diagnostics for the faults you can feel. 40 worksheets and 4 reference pages.

The Character Workbook

Constructing identity through tension and transformation. Wants and needs, the wound and the lie, arcs, relationships and the cast, voice and the body, and full character outlines. 40 worksheets and tools and 6 reference pages.

The World Building Workbook

Building worlds through logic, texture, and tension. The social world; place and time; rules, technology, and magic; the world on the page; and the world bible. 40 worksheets and tools and 6 reference pages.

Also as an instant download

The Craft Workbook Bundle is also sold as an instant download: the digital editions and printables of all three books, without the print copies.

Part of the Novel Writing Toolkit

These are Saint Violet's three craft workbooks for novelists. Each is also sold on its own. If you already own one of them, buy the other two singly.

Also in The Novel Writing Toolkit

The Toolkit adds The Novel Writing Workbook and The Revision Manual to these three: the whole series for novelists in one order. If you plan to get all five, buy the Toolkit instead of this bundle.

What comes next

The Novel Writing Workbook: the whole novel from first idea to finished draft, with each craft at the depth a first draft needs. These three go further on plot, character, and world when a problem outgrows its pages.

The Revision Manual: the pass-by-pass system for taking a draft to a finished manuscript. It picks up where these books leave off, once a draft is complete.

Print edition

The three books are printed to order and shipped by our print partner, Lulu. Printing takes 3–5 business days, then your order ships with tracking, and the tracking link is emailed to you.

Estimated delivery, printing included: about 11–13 business days in the US, 7–8 in the UK, 10–12 in Australia, and 15–17 in Canada. Other countries vary.

Shipping is calculated at checkout. US orders over $50 ship free.

Because each copy is made to order, we can't accept returns or exchanges for a change of mind. If your copy arrives damaged or misprinted, or doesn't arrive, email hello@saintvioletcreative.com within 30 days of shipping with your order number and a photo, and we'll send a replacement.

Instant download (included)

Right after you order, you'll get an access PDF on the order confirmation page and in your confirmation email, with the links to your files and a short guide to using them. You can start on the digital editions while your books are printed.

Instant downloads can't be returned or refunded. If a file won't open or a link stops working, email hello@saintvioletcreative.com and we'll send a working copy.

The three craft workbooks in print on a writing desk
The Craft Workbook Bundle in use, print edition
The Plot Workbook, print edition, part of The Craft Workbook Bundle
The Character Workbook, print edition, part of The Craft Workbook Bundle
The World Building Workbook, print edition, part of The Craft Workbook Bundle
Interior pages from The Plot Workbook
Interior pages from The Character Workbook
Interior pages from The World Building Workbook
The printable pages included with the print edition's instant download
The digital editions included with the print edition's instant download
Close-up of an interior page from The Plot Workbook

Saint Violet is an independent creative studio for artists and writers building a more durable creative practice through tools, publications, workshops, and systems for attention, experimentation, and actual follow-through.

The Craft Workbook Bundle: Print Edition

$95.00

The Complete Saint Violet Collection

If you find yourself coming back for more than one or two of these, the whole shop is available as a single instant download, built around the five books that take a novel from first idea to finished manuscript and growing with each new release, so anything made later arrives in the same library at no extra cost.

$250.00, one link to the whole library

Five books for novelists
  • The Novel Writing Workbook
  • The Plot Workbook
  • The Character Workbook
  • The World Building Workbook
  • The Revision Manual
Planners and ebook
  • The Creative Planner
  • Writing Notes
  • The Defiant Creative Process (ebook)
Zines and mini planners

Five zines and five mini planners.

Planner inserts

All 181 planner inserts, plus the 19 collections and folios built from them.

Notion templates

All three Notion templates, including The Idea Archive and The Novel Writing Organizer.

Bonuses

Bonus files, plus each new product as it's released.

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Workbooks8 items
Books & Zines8 items
Planners & Notebooks11 items
Calendars4 items
Planner Inserts200 items
Planner Insert Sets19 items
Objects & Apparel13 items
The Novel Writing Toolkit9 items
Gifts33 items
New Arrivals15 items
By purpose
Writing60 items
Planning99 items
Visual Art & Design33 items
Business & Freelance28 items

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