Resources for Authors and Game Devs

A curated list of resources for writing and game creation to enhance your skills.

Writing Resources

Paint-by-Numbers Story Template for NovelCrafter

Streamline Your Story Development. This guide offers over 200 prompts and templates to assist you in Planning, Writing, Editing, and Marketing your stories. The content is categorized and numbered to make the entire process of writing a story as straightforward as doing a Paint-by-Numbers picture.

Create adaptable story templates. Leverage the power of NovelCrafter's Codex by storing everything in this guide. Customize the Codex entries to fit your needs to create a template ready for cloning into new story projects.

Maximize your writing time. Consolidating all necessary elements within your story project means less organizing and managing story information across multiple documents and applications.

NOTE: The guide is an open-sourced living document for anyone to contribute to so check back regularly for updates. The template is a stripped-down version you can import into NovelCrafter to make it easier to create the Codex entries.

Current version: 2.3

Instructional YouTube videos

Download 'The Xenomorph Defendant' test story project

How To Automate File Backup on Windows

Use the free features built into Windows to ensure you never lose another file to corruption or accidental deletion.

YouTube video

Download the How-To Guide

Game Development Resources