Storytelling Collective is an online learning program designed for creatives like you.
We believe the future of storytelling is immersive, interactive, interdisciplinary, and inclusive.
Our courses are engaging, actionable, and affordable, tailored to creatives just starting out or venturing into something new. Are you ready to learn how to tell the stories you've always dreamed about?
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Join more than 10,000 creatives from around the globe.
Being a successful storyteller in 2023 means being much more than "just" a writer.
You also have to be:
- Super organized
- Efficient with your time
- Awesome at setting and meeting deadlines
- Knowledgeable about grammar and writing "rules"
- Good at research and self-learning
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Great at networking to make those important connections
... just to name a few things! No pressure, right?
Our courses are designed to help you tackle every aspect of your creative life so that you can achieve those dreams that fill your head and your heart. Every creative person needs someone in their corner cheering them on. Our community can do that for you, as it has for the 12,000+ people around the world who have gone through our programs.
Who are our courses for?
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Independent creatives interested in developing a creative process that works for them
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Storytellers eager to develop their knowledge of different storytelling mediums
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Creatives seeking a supportive community for direction and accountability
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Self-learners who want guidance and curated resources from experienced storytellers
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Writers who are eager to dive into affordable challenges and courses to improve their skillset
#StoCo Challenges
100% FREE creative challenges to inspire and motivate you.
RPG Writer Workshop
The RPG Writer Workshop is our flagship program. Narrative and game design encompasses all that we love about storytelling: creating immersive, participatory, and communal stories.
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Dungeon Design Essentials: Moments
CourseLearn how to design engaging dungeon adventures that will keep players talking long after the game has ended!
$13
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Choice Design in Solo Adventure Gamebooks
CourseLearn how to write solo adventure gamebooks that present readers with meaningful, memorable choices.
$35
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Laying Out Your Solo Adventure Gamebook Using Adobe InDesign
CourseFollow a step-by-step process to put your solo gamebook into a beautiful, readable layout using Adobe InDesign.
$13
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Dungeon Design Essentials: Treasure
CourseLearn how to design treasure and rewards to excite, entice, and inspire your players.
$29
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Publishing Your Campaign Setting: A Primer
CourseLearn how to plan, write, and market an original campaign setting. Instructor Mike Myler has more than 150 credits to his name and has funded several campaign settings through Kickstarter.
$29
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Marketing 101 for ttRPG Creators
CourseLearn the basics of marketing and come up with a marketing plan that will help you promote your roleplaying games!
$19
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Level Up: ttRPG Design Bundle
BundleReady for the next stage in your tabletop roleplaying game creating journey? This four-course bundle will set you on the right path.
$99
What's coming up in the RPG Writer Workshop?
Check back soon for our 2023 schedule!
Creative Productivity
What's the key to creative success? Having an awesome process. Don't have a process yet? Start here:
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Identifying Your Creative Heartbeat
CourseIdentifying Your Creative Heartbeat is a course that will help you develop a creative process and live a creative life. Work through 5 engaging lessons and complete worksheets to think through who you are as a creative person.
$12
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Notion 101: Creative Project Management
Course$22
#StoCo Bookshop
Published collections of work by our global writing community
Our Partners and Sponsors
We are grateful to our collaborators, who help make our programs possible!
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Here's what StoCo alumni have to say:
Christopher Harding (@Xanethlyon)
Joining the RPG Writer Workshop has been the most fulfilling and welcoming experience that I've had in a long time. The connections and friends made, the knowledge gained and the confidence I have has grown. I've gone from being unpublished (and no writing projects), to 2 adventures, 3 supplements, a few collaborative projects, as well as charity bundles in just 7 months. I highly recommend joining the discord and the courses whenever possible. They've proven invaluable for getting my foot in the door and learning how to be a TTRPG writer.
TL Massey (@tlmasseywrites)
The RPGWW is not only a fantastic little community, it's also a powerhouse of project management for first-time TTRPG writers. Even if you're an experienced writer or illustrator, the RPGWW framework is a great new way to think about a module from start to finish. Best part about the community? You have baked in real-time access to peers and resources to make your debut into the TTRPG scene. Bonus: You'll still have them when you stick around after you publish module #1. I'm very pleased with how much I've been able to get done since I joined.
Matthew Wulf
The Write Your First Adventure workshop gave me the tools, motivation, and communal resources to publish my first TRPG adventure. The importance of having a defined goal every day cannot be overstated. This course will make you a better author and a better game master, guaranteed.
Michael Reid, MikeReidWrites.com
The RPG Writer Workshop is the perfect starting point for writers breaking into the tabletop industry. The structure of the course provides a strong foundation for developing each individual's method for writing TTRPG material, while the encouraging instructors and fellow students offer something even more important: community. Crafting my first adventure for the DMs Guild, "False Profits," as part of the July 2020 RPG Writer Workshop was a transformative experience for me as a new independent TTRPG writer. I can't recommend it enough!