Free guide + spreadsheet

Stories are a million times easier to edit when you can see the threads running through them.

(Actual number.)

The Story Threads method is how I step back from the words and see the shape of my own novels — so I can spot structural problems fast and spend my time on the edits that actually matter.

  • The method, step by step — how to pull your threads out of the manuscript and lay them side by side.
  • A worked example — the opening of The Thursday Murder Club, mapped thread by thread.
  • The Story Thread map spreadsheet — the exact template I use on every novel.

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Katherine Collette
Four published novels·Award-nominated·150+ authors interviewed

Katherine Collette is an internationally published author of four novels. For six years she co-hosted The First Time podcast, asking more than 150 authors how books actually get made. Story Threads is the method she uses on her own manuscripts, and with the writers she coaches.