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Below, you will find a complete list of the HPFF Writers' Guild resources, from workshops to external resources, sorted in a table of contents.

Workshops

All workshops are available on The Guild's AO3. They were written and hosted by @venom0usbarbie, @lunapwrites, @allalrightagain, @girl-with-goats, @inmyownlittlecorner5, @bluestringpudding and @voldylockswrites.

They're sorted into two categories: writing workshops and poetry jams.

Writing Workshops

A collection with all the workshops can be found here.

Who's Speaking? A Workshop on Characterisation

Tools of the Trade - A Literary Device Workshop

Alternate Universes: the Workshop

From Fic to Best-Seller: a Marketing Workshop

The Subtle Science of Prep

Grammar Crash Course

Workbuilding Workshop

Smut Workshop

Riddles of the Human Mind

Shades of Grey: Dark & Grey Character Creation

Whose Point of View is it Anyway? A POV Workshop

In Tune with Words: Exploring the Intersection Between Music and Writing

Show and Tell Workshop

An Introduction to Plot-Driven Smut: an NSFW Workshop

Flow May - A Punctuation Workshop

Play with Your Words - A Workshop on Descriptive Writing

The Writer's Guide to Baking an Original Character

January Poetry Jams

A collection with all the poetry jams can be found here.

Poetry Jam #1

Poetry Jam #2

Poetry Jam #3

Poetry Jam #4

Poetry Jam #5

Tagging Guide

Barbie's handy tagging guide is on the Guild's AO3 as well.

You can also peruse the HPFF Writers' Guild — Workshops and Guides and Other Resources tag on AO3 to track down all our AO3 resources.

Drabble Workshops

There are seven drabble workshops, all of which can be found on Tumblr.

The Seven Deadly Drabbles

The Restricted Section

Sing Me a Song

Drabble Limbo

The Dementor's Kiss

Build-A-Story

That's What She Said

External Resources

Masterposts

Directory

Spreadsheet

Individual post links

Harry Potter-focused Resources

Language and Grammar

Plotting, Outlining, and Worldbuilding

Character Building

Technical Tools & Guides and General Writing Resources

A drabble workshop hosted by @bluestringpudding on the HPFF Writers' Guild Discord server

From June 16th to June 20th, 2025

It’s a simple workshop, mostly just chance for everyone to have fun, and maybe get a bit more experience of writing NSFW content within a safe environment. The prompts will be silly. But that doesn’t mean that the drabbles have to be. If you’d like to write something more serious, or more sensual, I’d love to read them.

That being said, there will be a few simple rules to follow:

Submissions must be no more than 200 words.

It doesn't have to be Harry Potter based. Any and all fandoms are welcome (though if context is required, I might ask questions). Or it can be based in no fandom at all.

Submissions must describe a complete moment, whether it is an act or a thought; there is a difference between leaving readers with a sense of anticipation and leaving them feeling unfulfilled.

If you’re down for an extra challenge, extra Kudos will awarded for anyone who manages to keep their word limit to 69 words.

If you're worried about the word count, here are some tips that may help (shamelessly copied from the excellent advice given for the last smut drabble workshop we held three years ago, thank you Jass 🤗 ):

Employ the power of suggestion: don't tell us what is, make us visualize it. Show us a tiny sliver. Draw us in.

To that end: play with imagery and the senses.

Metaphors will be your best friend. (Try to avoid similes; they add extra words and may not be as impactful in such a compact setting.) (These are not hard rules, just suggestions.)

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

A mini PHM comic about Grace growing old. I wanted to explore two ideas: Rocky dealing with Grace’s dementia and Grace wanting to donate his body to science. I spend so much time on figuring out the dialogue (some part still feel clunky to me) but I hope it express my thoughts on where I think Grace’s life would go :)

let's be pebbles and misbehave on our field trip to mr. grace's habitat :D

Sometimes, what you need to do is literally ask for a refill. I know that can be scary and upsetting and requires you to be willing to be vulnerable, but please consider two things:

One: if what you want to do is be able to fill other people's cups, you can't fill from an empty cup. You literally can't do the work if you're emptied out. You need to do this so you can help.

Two: for the people that love you, the people that really matter, you aren't imposing on them by asking for a refill. This is one of the things I really internalized from coming home to Judaism: when someone asks me to help them, they're giving me the opportunity to perform a mitzvah. No matter your belief system or outlook, I think we can probably all agree that being given an opportunity to be more awesome is pretty great.

So ask. Here are a few scripts you can try.

"Hey, I am...

... having a bad day.

... really struggling.

... really hurting because of the state of the world.

... having a hard time focusing on positive things.

... feeling emptied out.

Could you please help me? I could really use...

... some company.

... to hear about something beautiful you saw today.

... to hear some good news.

... to see a picture of your pet.

... to be told something you like about me.

... to be reminded of something I do that you like.

... your silliest new meme.

... to go for a walk with you.

... to hear about your favorite show.

... a hug."

I have genuinely never asked my friends to love me a little bit louder and gotten anything but an outpouring of support.

I need to remind people they too can ask me for a refill.