Althena
Rosalind

My sci-fantasy serials follow characters through worlds I can keep exploring for years. Building their stories means working out the people, creatures, technologies, and societies that shape what happens.

Advant follows Tomlyn Verlay, a hood clone sent to rescue humanity when eight billion robots and 357 humans remain. Its central question is who deserves a name.

Trooguh follows Juku, the last warden, and investigator Rinza through hidden human magic and forty types of demons. The story asks what truth means.

These serials are works in progress. I want to keep building them and publish when I’m ready. You can choose the same freedom for your writing, including keeping a story private and sharing resources you develop through it.

The writing resources I enjoy making come together in bundles called modules.

A writing module teaches a writing topic through different learning modes and media. Every module also includes an AI Prompt for your AI companion.

Some writing topic examples are building conflict, writing body language, and turning ordinary things into sci-fantasy inventions.

The Field Guide is the teaching ebook. It explains the topic, develops its writing method, and demonstrates it through worked examples.

Anchors are illustrated posters, cards, and references that help you recall the teaching while you write. A printable Workbook gives you pages for the exercises and your story planning.

Digital tools let you try the method on screen. Depending on the subject, these can include a generator, template, database, or browser activity. Some modules include a game for practising the ideas.

The AI Prompt gives your AI companion the module’s method to work through with you as you explore your characters, scenes, or world.

These module parts repeat the same information in different ways for better understanding. You can read an explanation, study a visual reference, practise on paper, experiment with a digital tool, and explore the ideas with your AI companion.

The digital tools I’m developing focus on one specific job, with a sci-fantasy theme shaping their look and feel. Notion templates are one format I want to use.

The Page Update Tracker is my first Notion template, and I’m working on it now. It brings the sources you follow and their new updates into one place. Your connected AI checks those sources when you ask, while the template keeps the links and your notes together and shows what you’ve read.

These digital tools could take the form of Notion templates, Canva templates, Google Docs templates, apps, Obsidian plugins, or other similar resources.

Alongside one-off writing packages, I wanted to create resources you could explore over an entire year. Overcast is the first of these.

Overcast is a gothic subscription magazine about writing and self-development. Thanks by Candlelight is its complete gratitude collection.

You try a gratitude activity in your own life, then explore what it could mean for your characters. Their different circumstances, desires, and reactions turn the same activity into material for your stories.

Each issue brings an activity explanation, printable posters, question cards for you and your characters, and three sci-fantasy story ideas that focus on that issue’s gratitude idea. You can read and do the activity, put a poster on the wall, discuss the questions, or write your answers.

Your subscription is front-loaded with a few issues, followed by one issue every week for 52 weeks. Each issue arrives as one PDF.

#-The Fog is my free digital mash-up journal about sci-fantasy and lists. It explores how lists help us choose, develop, and finish the things we want to create.

You can read its pages here on my website, follow the RSS feed, or subscribe to my newsletter for each new finished page.

A page mixes illustrations, short audio with a transcript, conversations with Nijo, and a connected write-up. You can look at the idea, listen to me explain it, and explore the questions it raises.

The first page, The Archive and Active Now, explores keeping your stored ideas separate from the work you’re doing now. It gives those two kinds of list different jobs.

As The Fog grows, I want to explore how a sci-fantasy theme can shape the lists we use and the projects we make through them.

The Fog is ongoing. New pages appear at my own pace, without a publishing timetable.

Ideas explored in The Fog grow into my non-fiction books about lists and living a sci-fantasy life.

The journal gives me a place to talk through discoveries as they develop. A book brings related ideas together into a fuller exploration, with room to follow their connections and develop the thinking.

The goal is around twenty books, with the whole collection counting as one project in my hundred. Each of my serials counts as one project too, even when it contains several books.

You can follow the growing collection on #-Non-Fiction Books.

Dragon Scholars is my imagined dragon academy, where learning helps you develop your own dragon story.

Its HTML dashboard lets you follow interactive lessons while writing your answers right onto the page. Here you can print out daily activity lists and build a completed portfolio.

Maths and English are the two learning routes. Lessons teach other subjects through them, including Science, History, Art, Technology, and Languages. Each lesson names the subjects it teaches.

The academy’s dragons appear in lesson stories and examples. Each lesson invites you to turn something you’ve learned into an idea for your own dragon story, such as a creature, place, rule, word, or problem.

Lesson series begin at the beginning and build one idea at a time. A step can teach an idea, show an example, open a video or game, ask a question, or guide you to make something.

Quick checks explain why an answer is right or wrong. New words come with meanings, and writing tasks show what to write and how to begin. Longer pieces start with a small plan before growing into paragraphs.

A shared lesson-making brief lets an AI assistant create new packs for the topics you want to learn. You import those packs into the same dashboard and follow the same learning method.

The portfolio keeps your answers and work files with their lessons, including images, PDFs, audio, and editable files.

Dragon Coders is a course series I’m developing that combines coding and digital skills with building your own dragon world. Each course teaches a language or tool while you develop part of that world and plan a short story set within it.

Markdown is the first course: a way to format plain text with headings, lists, and links. You use it to organise notes about your dragons, their world, and the story you want to tell.

Each course brings together a digital creation, worldbuilding, and a short-story plan. Across the series, those stories can grow into an anthology. It’s a way to learn a practical skill through an imagined world you want to keep exploring.

Each festival pack includes a range of sci-fantasy activities and writing components alongside its recipes.

The collection has 70 planned cooking festivals, each becoming its own paid festival pack. Future additions will go into these existing festivals, so each pack grows with more things to cook and do.

A festival booklet brings together recipes, food activities, traditions to try, haiku, and writing ideas. You can cook from it, plan a gathering, or use the food and activities to develop a sci-fantasy story.

Recipes give you the ingredients, quantities, equipment, and ordered method. Photos show the finished dish and useful cooking stages. Activities include their materials, steps, and an example of what to create.

Condensed A4 posters put a selected recipe or activity beside the cooker or on the table. The booklet holds the complete festival experience.

I’ll keep adding recipes, activities, traditions, and writing material to the same 70 festival packs over time.

Sci-fantasy motels are one of my larger future dreams: places where you could stay and enjoy the theme through the setting and the things you do there.

The cooking festivals could take place at the motels. Visitors could stay, cook, join the activities, and experience a festival together.

These places are future projects.

An entire team would help you create a sci-fantasy business, from finding an idea through to setting it up.

You could arrive with no idea at all and work with the team to find one. The team would help with the ideas and everything needed to set up the business.

This is a longer-term dream.