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Writer Essentials Bundle
Writer Essentials Bundle
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Jumpstart the next chapter of your writing.
This essential bundle taps into your imagination, banishes writer’s blocks, and helps you develop rich, compelling stories.
Every card includes fragments of ideas. When assembled together into a structured story prompt and interpreted through your creative lens, they create magic. Or drama. Or comedy. Whatever you need for your next novel, short story, or script, these decks, expansions, and boosters can help.
Whether you have the broad strokes of your story but you need to flesh out the details, or you have your big scenes worked out and need to connect them, or you just need to work through a stubborn plothole, The Story Engine’s Writer Essentials Bundle can help you get where you want to go.
This bundle helps you:
- Break through writer’s block
- Expand upon your ideas
- Plot out your story beats
- Develop unforgettable characters with meaningful pasts
- Try or blend new genres like fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and romance with confidence
- Explore new story ideas you’re excited to write
Included in this bundle ⮯
The Story Engine Deck
Our bestselling deck of prompt cards delivers instant ideas and endless possibilities for any creative challenge, whether you're a seasoned writer or just learning how to write.
8 Writing Prompt Expansions
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Fantasy Expansion
Craft compelling characters, imaginative fantasy settings, and plot ideas ready to develop into fantasy novels or short stories.
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Horror Expansion
Whether you're writing a terrifying short story outlining a horror novel, the horror expansion gives you a rich, unsettling foundation, filled with scary story ideas.
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Science Fiction Expansion
These diverse writing prompts go beyond the ordinary and assist you in creating fascinating sci-fi storylines that explore the tropes and boundaries of the science fiction genre.
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Mystery Expansion
Whether you want to add intrigue to an existing story or write a whodunnit from the ground up, this expansion will help you fill your stories with hidden motives and characters with something to lose.
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Backstory Expansion
Reveal the moments that defined your character and explore how their past may come back to haunt them in a gripping new tale.
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Romance Expansion
Developed with bestselling romance author Maggie K. Black, this is our most requested expansion ever. Write stories with motivations, conflicts, and characters that top the bestseller list.
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Character Questions Expansion
Write characters that feel real using open-ended questions to flesh out details, from formative memories and core beliefs to petty grudges and personality quirks.
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Relationships Expansion
Write relationships and develop character dynamics that power page-turning plots with an expansion focused on exploring motivations and conflicts that link characters.
Why 15,000 writers love our decks
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Never run out of ideas.
Generate trillions of unique writing prompts powered by your imagination. Our decks provide a constant stream of inspiration.
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Write stories that keep readers hooked.
Designed by Aurora Award-winning author Peter Chiykowski, our prompts help you write stories that captivate from the first page to the last.
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Effortless creativity.
Use the guidebook to quickly learn the system and add depth to your stories, ensuring your readers get lost in your words. Turn your ideas into coherent plots.
Authors Who Love Our Decks
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Kwame Mbalia
New York Times-bestselling author of Rick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong.
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C. L. Clark
Multi-award-winning author of The Faithless and Warmongers.
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Aliette de Bodard
Award-winning author and winner of Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, European Science Fiction Society, British Fantasy, and British Science Fiction Association awards.
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- Save $90 in bundle discounts
- Free shipping within the United States
- Includes The Story Engine
- Comes with 8 story expansions + all 12 subgenre boosters in a collectible slip case
- Everything you need to write your novel
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