Saint Violet is an independent creative studio making workbooks, guides and workshops for writers, artists and makers. Each one is built to keep a creative practice going and to help bring unfinished work to completion, in the belief that your art deserves to exist in the world.

The studio

Saint Violet works with writers, artists and makers in the long middle of a project: the stretch after the excitement of beginning and well before the end comes into view, where unfinished work tends to stall. The draft abandoned at sixty percent, the revision in its second year, the finished book left in a drawer. The workbooks, the Organizer and The Writing Room all come out of that work.

Everything the studio makes rests on one conviction, set out in the essay In Defense of Inconsistency: a creative life is a relationship you keep returning to, and it runs in seasons. Missed days, long gaps and abandoned drafts are part of how real books get made. That is why you will find no streaks, word quotas or daily targets in anything Saint Violet makes, and why every tool is built to be put down and picked up again.

Saint Violet is run by Sam Roberts, a writer, editor and book designer, and the author of The Defiant Creative Process.

The Novel Writing Toolkit

The Organizer is part of the Novel Writing Toolkit. Each book works alone, and they share names and terms. The books come as digital, printable and print editions.

• The Novel Writing Workbook: the spine of the series, from first idea to finished draft.
• The Plot Workbook: building story through cause, consequence and change.
• The Character Workbook: building character through want, wound and choice.
• The World Building Workbook: worlds made from logic, texture and tension.
• The Revision Manual: the pass-by-pass system for taking a draft to a finished manuscript.
• The Independent Publishing Manual: turning a finished manuscript into a published book.
• The Return Plan: for a project stalled long enough that getting back in needs a plan of its own.

Browse them at saintvioletcreative.com.

The Writing Room

A five-week drafting intensive with a fixed schedule and a fixed end date, for writers with a novel underway who want structure and company while they draft. Several of the drafting tools in this Organizer come from it: the door note, the revision debt log and the guides in When you're stuck. Each cohort includes The Revision Manual.

https://thewritingroom.xyz/