Descend into the maddening realm of serifs and sans, where the weight of a single letterform can crush your soul or elevate your manuscript from the slush pile of despair. In this course, you’ll learn to wield the dark arts of typography, discovering how the subtle curve of an ‘f’ can make readers weep and the proper kerning can summon emotions from the void. Our seasoned typography demons will guide you through the labyrinth of font choices that won’t make your readers wish to claw their eyes out.
Welcome to the digital dungeon where your manuscripts will be torn apart and stitched back together like a beautiful monster. Here, in the depths of Scrivener’s labyrinthine interface, you’ll learn to organize your chaos, track your character’s tragic fates, and structure your narrative nightmares with precision. Beware: once you enter this rabbit hole of efficient writing software, your old methods will seem like quaint torture devices from a bygone era.
Craft a digital sanctuary for your darkest creations using the mystical powers of Elementor. Our spectral guides will teach you to build websites that lure readers into your web of words, using layouts that hypnotize and designs that enchant. Journey through the shadow realm of drag-and-drop design, where every pixel placement is an incantation designed to capture the souls (and email addresses) of your future readers.
Unlock the doors to countless narrative dimensions with our carefully curated collection of writing prompts. Each prompt is a key to a new realm of possibility, designed to awaken your slumbering muse and guide you down unexplored paths of creativity. Our prompt architects craft starting points that range from quietly unsettling to gloriously macabre.
Conjure the perfect literary still life in this course on the dark art of bookstagram photography. Learn to arrange your tomes with candlelit precision, summon the perfect shadows, and create images that will haunt your followers’ feeds. Our specialists in literary necromancy will teach you to capture the soul of your books in perfectly curated flat lays that would make Edgar Allan Poe weep with envy.
Dive into the shadows of Photoshop where book covers are born from the void. Learn to craft visual symphonies that will catch eyes and snare souls in the endless digital marketplace. Our master illustrators of the macabre will guide you through layer masks, typography, and composition, ensuring your cover becomes a portal to the world within your pages rather than a gateway to retail obscurity.
Become a messenger of the literary underground through the ancient art of email marketing. Learn to craft newsletters that subscribers actually want to resurrect from their inbox grave, create sequences that nurture readers from casual observers to devoted cultists, and build a list that’s more than just numbers in a database – it’s your army of the night.
Embrace the blessed curse of routine in this exploration of ritualistic writing practices. Learn to summon your muse at will, even when she’s busy haunting other writers. We’ll teach you to create sacred spaces for your craft, whether it’s a midnight desk adorned with ravens or a coffee-stained corner of a bustling café. Discover how to transmute mundane habits into powerful ceremonies that summon forth your darkest creativity.
Weave together the disparate threads of your digital existence using Make’s arcane machinery. Learn to create automated workflows that connect your various platforms and services into a seamless tapestry of efficiency. Our automation artificers will guide you through the creation of scenarios that work in the shadows while you focus on your craft.
Transform chaos into order with the eldritch power of Airtable’s organizational magic. Learn to create databases that track your character’s cursed bloodlines, manage your writerly tasks with supernatural efficiency, and build systems that would make Lovecraft’s librarians weep with joy. Our data demons will teach you to harness the full power of relational databases without losing your creative soul to the grid.
Uncover the secrets hidden within Canva’s deceptively simple interface. Learn to bend this tool to your will, creating designs that serve your dark purposes while maintaining your artistic integrity. Our design necromancers will share their forbidden templates and arcane shortcuts, helping you create visual content that stands out in the digital void.
Enter the mechanical underbelly of book creation, where Vellum becomes your instrument of transformation. Learn to craft internal layouts that don’t send readers screaming into the abyss, master the arcane art of widow and orphan control, and ensure your chapter headings don’t resemble tombstone epithets (unless that’s your aesthetic). This course will teach you to transform your manuscript from a rough beast into a thing of terrible beauty.
Curate your collection of writing implements, both digital and analog, in this essential course for the well-equipped wordsmith. From fountain pens that flow like midnight rivers to apps that capture your ideas before they fade like morning mist, learn which tools deserve a place in your arsenal. Our specialists will help you separate the truly useful from the merely shiny, ensuring your writing toolkit serves your dark purpose.
Venture into the skeletal structure of storytelling, where plots are dissected and reassembled with surgical precision. In this course, you’ll learn to build narrative frameworks that can support the weight of your darkest tales, creating story bones strong enough to dance with your demons. Our structure specialists will guide you through the labyrinth of plot points, ensuring your story’s skeleton won’t collapse under the weight of your prose.
Summon movement from stillness in this course on creating cinematic harbingers for your books. Learn to weave together visuals, sound, and text into compelling short films that will entrance potential readers. Our visual alchemists will guide you through the process of distilling your novel’s essence into a haunting trailer that lingers in viewers’ minds like a beautiful nightmare.
Summon movement from stillness in this course on creating cinematic harbingers for your books. Learn to weave together visuals, sound, and text into compelling short films that will entrance potential readers. Our visual alchemists will guide you through the process of distilling your novel’s essence into a haunting trailer that lingers in viewers’ minds like a beautiful nightmare.
Orchestrate elaborate email symphonies with the ethereal beauty of Flodesk. Learn to design messages that look like they were crafted by gothic angels and create sequences that guide your readers through perfectly-timed literary experiences. Our email architects will teach you to build automated flows that feel personal, as if each message were written in blood just for them.
Orchestrate elaborate email symphonies with the ethereal beauty of Flodesk. Learn to design messages that look like they were crafted by gothic angels and create sequences that guide your readers through perfectly-timed literary experiences. Our email architects will teach you to build automated flows that feel personal, as if each message were written in blood just for them.
Impose order upon chaos with Monday.com’s project management sorcery. Learn to track your multiple works-in-progress, marketing campaigns, and publishing schedules with disturbing efficiency. Our organizational occultists will teach you to create workflows that ensure no deadline escapes your grasp and no task is lost to the void of forgetfulness.
Summon moving pictures from the void in this course on visual storytelling. Learn to create content that captures souls through screens, whether you’re crafting author videos that don’t look like they were filmed in a dungeon (unless that’s your aesthetic) or social media snippets that hypnotize scrolling minds. Our visual vampires will teach you to harness light, sound, and movement to create content that feeds your author platform’s endless hunger.
Enter the marathon of madness where word counts become an obsession and productivity reaches fever pitch. Our word-count warriors will guide you through the dark arts of high-volume writing, teaching you to channel the chaos of creation into a terrifying torrent of text. Learn to silence your inner editor (temporarily binding them in chains if necessary) and let the words flow like a river of ink.
Navigate the endless halls of Pinterest’s visual labyrinth to find your devoted readers. Learn to create images that spread like a delightful plague through the platform’s algorithm, attracting kindred spirits to your literary coven. Master the dark arts of pin design, keywords, and board curation to build an audience that hungers for your words.
Navigate the treacherous waters of Amazon’s advertising abyss, where your books compete with millions of others in the great digital coliseum. Our marketing mystics will reveal the secrets of targeting, bidding, and optimization that will help your books rise from the depths of obscurity. Learn to craft ad copy that beckons to readers like a siren’s call and master the algorithms that determine your book’s fate.
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It’s not just a system—it’s a spell, binding us all to the strange magic of connection. Contribute often, contribute well, and watch as your skills rise like the smoke from a candle burned too close to your manuscript.
