School's Out - Academy Plugins

​School may be out for the summer, but savvy authors know that now is exactly the right time to start writing academy stories—readers will be craving them when fall rolls around. Whether it's a magical school, a military academy, a dark academia thriller, or a college romance, school-based settings come with their own rich set of tropes, dynamics, and structural beats.

​In this session, we'll dive into Plugins that are built for crafting academy and school-based stories. We'll explore how to use them to nail the hallmarks of the genre—from rivalries and secret societies to coming-of-age arcs and found-family dynamics—and how to get ahead of the back-to-school reading rush with a draft that's already in progress.

​Students will leave the session with a curated toolkit of academy-focused Plugins and a clear plan for putting them to work on their next school-based project.

​This session is led by Karistina Lafae and is part of our weekly Deep Dive series on Sudowrite Plugins.