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.
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 idea that never got started, the project abandoned at sixty percent, the finished piece left in a drawer. The zines, the planner and these Notion workspaces 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 work gets made. That is why you will find no streaks, 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.
Two series of short zines, each in digital, printable and print editions.
On Creativity, on the practice itself:
Artifacts of Process, on the conditions around the work:
Concepts / Plans / Actions. One undated, 300-page book for ideas, projects and working sessions: an Idea List, Idea Development pages, twelve project plans with their own task lists, quarterly and annual overviews, and 112 Studio Planner sessions that each end with a note on where to start next time. It covers the same ground as the Idea Archive and the Project Organizer, on paper. Available in print and digital editions.
Browse everything at saintvioletcreative.com.