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Obsidian Tavern
Obsidian Tavern

Five frameworks · one path · idea to income

I’m not a bestseller. I make a couple grand a month from my fiction. Here’s exactly how.

Most people who want to write fiction for a living never make a dollar from it. Not because they can’t write. Because nobody ever handed them the whole path from blank page to a body of work people pay for. This is that path.

27 worlds built 60+ stories written 80+ lessons inside
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Everything on the desk, priced one at a time

The WorldBuilder's Grimoire

$199

The One-Off

$99

Go the Distance

$149

The Spellcrafter's Pages

$49

EditForge

$99

Obsidian for World-Builders

$49
Bought separately $644
Pre-order today $99

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No. 01 · the stall

You don’t have a talent problem. You have a finishing problem.

You get an idea. A good one. A world with a rule nobody’s seen, a character you can almost hear talking. You open a doc, write three pages, maybe thirty. Then it stalls, because you don’t actually know what happens next, or whether the magic you invented holds up when someone pokes at it.

So you research more. You build more world. You collect more notes. Notes feel like progress. They aren’t. A folder with two hundred pages of lore and zero finished stories isn’t a writing career. It’s a very organized way of not writing.

Then somebody online says they make real money from fiction, and something in you goes why not me. Something right behind it goes because you never finish anything.

That second voice isn’t telling the truth. It’s telling you that you’ve never had a system. Different problem. Fixable problem.

A writer working by candlelight, absorbed and content, surrounded by hand-drawn maps and pages
One page at a time, by candlelight. The work is the whole thing.

No. 02 · the path

Five frameworks. One straight line from idea to income.

World, story, book, magic, polish. Each one is the exact place a writer usually quits, and each one has a full framework in the bundle. Two complete worked stories get built in front of you so you watch every move land. Open any card to see the whole thing.

01

The Worldbuilder’s Grimoire

Fixes: “I have an idea but no world to set it in.”

Eight phases that grow one strange sentence into a living world. Economics, power, belief, geography, history, all of it connected. You start with a single seed and end with a place deep enough to hold a hundred stories. Every world I’ve built started here.

Open the full 8-phase framework →

Every phase has a worksheet, the steps that build it, and a challenge that forces the world out of your head and onto the page.

  • Phase 1: Planting Your Seed. The one strange sentence everything else grows from.
  • Phase 2: Growing the First Roots. Economics and value, daily life, social ripples. Challenge: A Day in the Life.
  • Phase 3: Developing Core Systems. Power and control, belief and meaning, knowledge and expertise. Challenge: The Expert and the Novice.
  • Phase 4: Creating Complexity through Conflict. Natural tensions, opposing viewpoints, adaptation. Challenge: The Dispute.
  • Phase 5: Expanding Your Geography. Physical distribution, cultural variation, travel and trade. Challenge: The Map and Key.
  • Phase 6: Deepening the History. Origin story, evolution over time. Challenge: The Historical Document.
  • Phase 7: Building Connected Systems. How every system you built touches every other one. Challenge: The System Map.
  • Phase 8: Bringing It All Together. A living society, current challenges, individual perspectives. Challenge: the world in motion.

Plus Special Applications (deep-dive frameworks for political systems, economics, and magic) and a Resources & Tools kit with every template in one place.

02

The One-Off

Fixes: “I have a world but I can’t turn it into a story.”

A world is raw material. A story is one person in that world on the worst or strangest hour of their life. This course takes you from world to a finished short, then to a plan for a dozen more that quietly talk to each other and pull readers deeper. One full story gets built in front of you, ugly draft to clean, nothing hidden.

Open all 5 sections, 30 lessons →
  • Section 1: The One-Off (6 lessons). Finish one short, start to finish. Finding the story your world is hiding, the one character and the one problem, the turn and the ending, and drafting it ugly.
  • Section 2: The Craft Floor (7 lessons). Now make it good. Ground everything in the body, specific over abstract, sentence rhythm, cutting the explaining, dialogue, and the rules of the page.
  • Section 3: The Series (5 lessons). Standalone shorts that secretly link. The buried thing, reveal order versus world-time order, and the quiet cross-reference web. You stop writing stories and start building a shelf.
  • Section 4: The Edit (4 lessons). Draft ugly then see clean. The failure modes, the after-you-write scan, and killing your darlings.
  • Section 5: Getting It Out (3 lessons). The spoiler-free teaser that earns the click, formatting for the phone, and why first person gets read as true.

Plus an Obsidian setup lesson and a complete worked short story, “The Number,” built across the course.

03

Go the Distance

Fixes: “I can finish a short but a book feels impossible.”

A book isn’t a harder story. It’s a longer one. This course takes you from a finished short to a complete first draft of a novel, and it’s built against the two things that actually kill books: not knowing what happens next, so you stall, and the murky middle, where you become sure the whole thing is garbage and want to quit.

Open all 6 sections, 28 lessons →
  • Section 1: The Book-Shaped Idea (5 lessons). Most ideas can’t survive being a book. Find one that can, mine your world and your shorts, and nail the logline and the promise.
  • Section 2: The Spine (5 lessons). Just enough outline that you never stall. Act math, the turns that hold it up, and one map you can hold in your head.
  • Section 3: The Drafting Engine (7 lessons). Where the book actually gets written. Draft ugly at book scale, the session not the book, momentum over mood, and how to come back after you’ve stopped.
  • Section 4: Crossing the Middle (5 lessons). The exact spot books die. The sagging middle as a craft problem, the voice that says quit, and the halfway recommit. Placed precisely where you’ll need it.
  • Section 5: Landing It (4 lessons). The downhill half, paying off the promise, and understanding that done means whole, not good.
  • Section 6: The Handoff (4 lessons). Why the draft goes in the drawer, the handoff to EditForge, and why the next book is easier.

Plus a “real book start to finish” walkthrough and a complete worked book, “The Ledger of Small Debts,” built across the whole course.

04

Spellcrafter’s Pages

Fixes: “My magic falls apart when anyone looks closely.”

The reason so much fantasy feels weightless is that the magic has no cost, no rules, no consequences. This is an 8-phase system for building a magic system that holds up, with stress tests that try to break it before your reader does. Bolt it onto any world and the whole thing suddenly feels real.

Open the full 8-phase magic framework →

Same eight-phase spine as the Grimoire, aimed entirely at magic:

  • Phase 1: Planting Your Magical Seed
  • Phase 2: Growing the First Roots
  • Phase 3: Developing Core Systems
  • Phase 4: Creating Complexity through Conflict
  • Phase 5: Expanding Your Magical Geography
  • Phase 6: Deepening the Magical History
  • Phase 7: Building Connected Systems
  • Phase 8: Bringing Magic to Life

Plus a full Worksheets & Templates pack, Advanced Troubleshooting Prompts, and a Magical Stress Tests appendix that tries to break your magic before a reader does.

05

EditForge

Fixes: “My draft is done but it’s not good yet.”

Every first draft is ugly. That’s not a flaw, it’s the job. EditForge is the 21-chapter system for turning an ugly draft into something clean. The failure modes to hunt for, the scan to run after you write, and how to kill the darlings that are quietly wrecking your story. Finishing is a skill. This is the skill.

Open all 21 chapters plus appendices →

21 chapters taking a draft from its first honest read to final polish. The failure modes to hunt, the after-you-write scan, structural fixes, line-level cleanup, and killing the darlings that are quietly wrecking the story. Backed by five appendices (A–E): reference checklists and tools you’ll reach for on every draft after this one.

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Obsidian for World-Builders

The reference shelf: “Where do I keep all of this?”

A world outgrows a folder of Word docs fast. Character notes in seventeen files, a magic rule buried somewhere you can’t remember. Every course above is built to live in one calm, connected Obsidian vault instead of that mess. You don’t need to learn it first. Start building your world the second you buy, and reach for this when you want it.

Open all 6 sections, 19 lessons →
  • Section 1: Foundation (2 lessons). Why Obsidian makes sense for world-building, and your basic setup from zero.
  • Section 2: Core Features (4 lessons). Connections that matter, templates that save your sanity, tags without the chaos, and properties.
  • Section 3: Enhancement Tools (4 lessons). Canvas for visualizing your world, search that actually works, daily notes, and the plugins worth your time.
  • Section 4: Workflow & Practice (3 lessons). Building your world session by session, maintaining it long-term, and working across devices.
  • Section 5: Advanced Techniques (3 lessons). Dataview for world-builders, making your vault pretty, and exporting your world.
  • Section 6: Appendices. A sample vault structure you can copy and start from.

Ships with a Start Here walkthrough and a ready-to-use vault layout so you’re not staring at a blank screen.

Together they’re the whole path. World, story, book, magic, polish, with no gap where writers usually quit. That’s the part nobody sells you: the sequence.

$644 of frameworks. $99 today.

Until July 17. Then it’s $299 and it stays there.


No. 03 · the honest number

What “making a living” actually looks like

Let me be straight with you, because the rest of the internet won’t.

I’m not on a bestseller list. I don’t have an Amazon empire. I make a couple thousand dollars a month from fiction I built from nothing, and I did it by finishing things, over and over, using the exact frameworks in this bundle.

A couple grand a month doesn’t sound like a fantasy. That’s the point. It’s real, it’s repeatable, and it’s built one finished story at a time. Do that consistently and it grows. That’s not a promise of overnight money. It’s a promise of a method that actually produces work, which is the only thing that ever pays.


No. 04 · is this you?

Let’s make sure this is for you

This is for you if

  • You want to write fiction and you’re sick of starting things you never finish
  • You’ve got worlds and ideas but nothing a reader could actually hold
  • You want a real, repeatable system more than you want a pep talk
  • You’re okay with the work. Because there’s work.

This is not for you if

  • × You want AI to write your stories. Wrong bundle. Genuinely.
  • × You’re looking for a get-rich guarantee. I make a couple grand a month, not a killing, and I won’t pretend otherwise.
  • × You already finish and sell fiction consistently. You don’t need this.

No. 05 · the offer

The whole thing, before the price goes up

Five frameworks and the reference course that holds them. The complete path from a blank page to a body of work you own and can sell.

  • Six courses, over 80 lessons
  • Every worksheet, template, and challenge
  • Two complete worked stories, a short and a book, built in front of you
  • A ready-to-copy Obsidian vault structure
  • Lifetime access, every future update to these courses included

You’re getting it for half because you’re getting it early. When the bundle launches on July 17 it’s $299 and it stays there.

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No. 06 · questions, answered straight

Before you ask

When do I get access?
The moment the bundle launches on July 17. Your account is created as soon as payment clears, and every course unlocks at launch. You’ll get an email the second the doors open.
Is the price really going up?
Yes. $99 is the pre-order price. At launch it becomes $299 and stays there. No fake timers here. The date is real and it’s on the clock above.
I’ve never finished anything. Is this over my head?
Never finishing anything is the exact problem this bundle exists to fix. The path starts from one strange sentence and walks forward one framework at a time. You never face a step without the system for it, and you watch two complete stories get built before your eyes.
Do I need to know Obsidian?
No. A full reference course on Obsidian is included, starting from zero, and the frameworks work in whatever tool you write in. Start building your world first. Reach for the vault course when you want it.
Does AI write any of this for me?
No. These are frameworks for you to write with, and both worked stories were written by hand in front of you. The courses do show you where AI earns its keep as a tool, like using it as a worldbuilding partner without letting it write for you. If you want AI to write your fiction, this is genuinely the wrong bundle.
What exactly do I get?
Six courses. Five frameworks covering world, story, book, magic, and polish, plus the Obsidian reference course. Over 80 lessons, every worksheet and template, two complete worked stories, and lifetime access. The full contents of every course are laid open in the cards above.
How fast will I make money?
Slower than the gurus promise and faster than never, which is where most writers are stuck now. I make a couple grand a month after years of finishing things. The bundle gives you the method that produces finished work. The money follows the work, not the other way around.

A single golden sprout breaking from a glowing seed, roots spreading into dark soil toward warm light
One finished thing, then the next. That’s how it grows.

No. 07 · the truth about finishing

The writers who make it aren’t the most talented

They’re the ones who finished. Again and again, until finishing stopped being remarkable and started being Tuesday.

You don’t need permission and you don’t need more talent. You need the path, and you need to walk it. I built the path. The walking’s on you. At least now you know where it goes.

$99 now. $299 at launch. No AI writing it for you, no hype, no bestseller fairy tales. Just the system I actually use.

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