Scribemind.
Learning & LITERARY SERVICES
You could say I’m a little “Type A.”
I’m Ashley Warren: a creative storyteller and educator passionate about helping creatives like you find success — whatever “success” means to you! I’m at my best when I can work and play in the intersection of storytelling and learning.
Editing and Proofreading
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Writing Workshops
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Creative Career Consulting
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Literacy Advocacy
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Narrative Design
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Immersive and Atmospheric Fiction
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Editing and Proofreading 〰️ Writing Workshops 〰️ Creative Career Consulting 〰️ Literacy Advocacy 〰️ Narrative Design 〰️ Immersive and Atmospheric Fiction 〰️
New services!
FICTION EDITING
Manuscripts, tabletop roleplaying games, and anthologies
PROOFREADING:
Social media, marketing material, professional documents, and more
CREATIVE CAREER CONSULTING
One-on-one mentorship, goal setting, and accountability
Booking now! Limited availability for Q1. Reach out ASAP so I can get you on my schedule!
📨 Get in touch and let’s collaborate
Ashley, annotated:
Ashley Warren is an award-winning writer and narrative designer who has developed, produced, and co-authored numerous bestselling titles for Dungeons & Dragons including the Uncaged Anthology series, Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, Heckna!, and Legendlore. She serves as the director of the Storytelling Collective, a global online writing program for independent creative storytellers. Ashley is best known for her immersive, atmospheric storytelling that she lends to both games and fiction, and she is passionate about exploring themes of culture, identity, and folklore in her work. She holds a Masters in Literacy Studies from the University of Nevada-Reno.
It’s her life’s work to support her fellow storytellers, which is how Scribemind came to be!
You might know me from…
My online learning program, the Storytelling Collective
My bestselling narrative design work for acclaimed books like Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden or Uncaged Anthology
My resource guide, The Citizen’s Guide to Research
One of the countless workshops or seminars I’ve held at creative events over the years!
What am I currently writing?
I have a few irons in the fire at present! Among them:
My middle-grade fantasy novel, project name “Ember,” is in final revisions and going out soon to beta readers! This is a Mediterranean-inspired tale about a firstborn daughter who inadvertently unravels her family’s legacy while leading an annual youth pilgrimage. If I have written a “heart book,” this is it.
I’m still slowly querying Project Fleur-de-Lis and implementing revisions based on feedback I received from the fabulous Mary McMyne. Mary gave this book a much-needed review last year and her insight was invaluable! Hopefully this book will see the light of day at some point. If you’re interested in reading it, I’d be happy to send to you. It’s contemporary literary fiction with some historical narratives interwoven throughout. I pitch it as The Grand Budapest Hotel meets Under the Tuscan Sun. This book is your classic “American woman unlocks a new part of herself in Europe.” (Yes, there is romance.)
I’m chipping away at a spec fic novella, a near-future story set in Nevada, inspired by The Man from U.N.C.L.E and my love for Russian spies, messy-haired engineers, and resourceful librarians. This story has been in the works for more than a decade; I didn’t really have it in me to turn it into something real until about a year ago.
Last fall I “broke ground” on my ambitious historical fiction novel set in the immediate aftermath of the Thirty Years War. It’s a weird one and pretty experimental. It will probably take me a while to write. If you want to read it as it develops, let me know!
What’s New @ Scribemind Studio
Loreloop: The World We Live In, The World We Create
Loreloop: The World We Live In, The World We Create is an original tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) and collection of interactive stories created by Nevada Humanities and designed by yours truly! Loreloops’s development is supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities and the National Endowment of the Arts.
New programs coming to Storytelling Collective
We have an epic 2025 planned for the Storytelling Collective. Visit StoCo HQ to be the first to hear about our new courses, workshops, creative challenges, events, and more!