Jami's FREE Resources for Writers
Learning how to write can be overwhelming, as there's so much to grasp and master!
But you're here, so you're in luck. Jami Gold is a teacher at heart and a Google research ninja, and that means she loves sharing with others the various things she's learned, especially when she adds in her ideas for how to apply advice our our unique situations.
Best of all? Over 99% of Jami's resources are FREE!
No Matter Your Budget,
You Can Improve Your Skills
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- Plot-Oriented Beat Sheets: Excel spreadsheets based on Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat Beat Sheet, Larry Brooks’ Story Engineering structure, and a master spreadsheet combining the above two story planning approaches — or for those new to beat sheets or who write by the seat of their pants, check out Jami’s Basic Beat Sheet
- Character-Oriented Beat Sheet: Excel spreadsheet based on Michael Hauge’s “Using Inner Conflict to Create Powerful Love Stories” workshop, merging a character’s internal journey with a standard three-act plot structure
- Romance-Oriented Beat Sheet: Jami’s Excel spreadsheet for developing the beats of a romance arc over a standard three-act story structure
- Story and Scene-Strengthening Worksheets: MS Word documents and spreadsheets with checklists and revision tools to ensure our stories are well-developed and our scenes have the right elements
- Scrivener Templates: Templates based on my Master Beat Sheet, Basic Beat Sheet, and Romance Beat Sheet for drafting a story in Scrivener in line with story beats
- Career Improvement Tools: Worksheets to help with beta reading, developing a business plan, and deciding on priorities
- Resources Offered by Jami’s Guests: Worksheets for varied issues, from writing craft to developing productivity and goals/vision/priority balance
What Do You Need Help With?
(Each section also includes links to relevant worksheets, tools, and free guides.)
- Storytelling: Fiction writing starts with our ability to create a story, so this section features highlights from Jami's blog about story planning, story structure, and beat sheets.
* Also Available: How to Start Our Story Ultimate Guide (free!) - Writing Craft: Story ideas are only as good as our ability to express them in writing, so this section features highlights from Jami's blog with writing and editing tips.
* Also Available: Writing Craft Tips Resource Guide (free!) - Career & Publishing: Once we have our story written, we need a business mindset, so this section features highlights from Jami's blog about our career, publishing process, and marketing.
* Also Available: How to Create Our Brand Ultimate Guide (free!) - Writing Processes, Writing Life, & Guests: Pantser? Plotter? Somewhere between? This section features highlights from Jami's blog about writing processes, writing life, and guest post topics too.
* Also Available: How to Use Scrivener Templates Ultimate Guide (free!)
These posts give us a list of skills to study so we can level up, no matter whether we're a new writer or an experienced one searching for insights we haven't come across before. Each post contains a huge list of skills with links to relevant posts with more information.
The links below collect the posts Jami has so far on these broad topics:
- Learn about Writing: Tip-heavy posts about writing skills and concepts
- Planning Your Story: Story planning tips and advice
- Writing Your Story: Drafting tips and advice
- Editing Your Story: Editing tips and advice
- Selling Your Story: Queries, synopses, and packaging tips and advice
- Self-Publishing Your Story: Self-publishing insights and tips
- Beta Reading & Critiquing: Beta reading/critiquing tips and advice
- Career Planning for Writers: Branding and goal planning
- Social Media & Authors: Blogging, social media, and online reputations
- The Publishing Business: Agents, publishers, and publishing paths
- Writing Life: Encouragement for the ups and downs of writing
Or if you’re looking for information about a specific topic, try doing a search. Put quote marks around words if you’re looking for a specific phrase, such as “past tense”:
Or want more refined results? The Search page offers many filtering options.
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Overwhelmed?
Here are a few suggestions on how you can get started:
If you're new to writing (or Jami's site), here's a free guide to some of Jami's most helpful articles for those new to storytelling.
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Want insight into the best advice, from writing and editing to publishing and branding? Check out Jami's "virtual mentorship."
Check if Jami's already posted about the topic:
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Whether you need to work on story structure or career planning, Jami may have a worksheet tool to help.
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