#preptober

Hey hey hey, Ellipsus people!

With November coming up, we know some of you are planning some long projects… (50k words, mayhap? 👀), and maybe already haunted by the ghostly blank page.

Don’t panic (yet)! We’ve got you covered with a new batch of Preptober-themed templates to help you summon your story before November 1 hits: Project Compass, Backstory Planning, and Creative Goals. Read about them in our blog post here!

Annnd of course, there’s a lot more where those came from: character sheets, worldbuilding guides, and story planners/plotting templates galore. You can find them all when you create a new doc on your dash (just hit + New → From Template).

Go forth and prepare your offerings to the word count gods!

PREPARE FOR NANOWRIMO!

Thursday, October 9th, 2025 @ 7:30 PM PT on Twitch!

Our yearly NaNoWriMo streams are back, starting with the traditional NaNoPrep/Preptober drop-in stream for chatting, sprinting, and sharing tips on how to prepare for The Big 50,000.

THIS STREAM HAS (OPTIONAL) HOMEWORK BELOW THE CUT!

Also, with Preptober coming up soon, I thought I'd throw it out for all the wrimos out there!

So we have:

1. Pretty Cover!:

2: Cute inner page to make you feel like the real writer your imposter syndrome tries to tell you, you aren't:

3. Map Space! To put down your fantasy lands, insert towns, or maybe those nines seas you decided you had to have cause seven clearly wasn't enough (😭 somebody save me, why did I chose nine?!!)

4. Timelines! Perfect for keeping track of what's going on in your story or even for you to keep yourself on track!

5. There are also premade Extensive Character sheets to help you develop your own personal blorbos. Along with space to sketch your OCs if you have a shred of artistic talent (or even if you don't!)

6. There are also some Basic Character Sheets for those interesting side characters who aren't supposed to take over your story:

7. And of course, space to write a bunch of notes, complete with doodle boxes for you to draw, well....pretty much anything you want, whether it been a cool weapon, a specific landscape, or to note a specific expression on a character's face.

You can find the Writer's Notebook here! ⬇️⬇️⬇️