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Style Sheets

Keep your voice sharp. Keep your series consistent. Style sheets aren’t just for editors — they’re your secret weapon. Learn what they are, why you need one, and how to build a style sheet that makes AI your obedient writing buddy.

(Course cost is $121. All advertised USD prices will be billed in ZAR through our South African payment gateway.)

Live Workshop

Style Sheets

$121  ·  Next live: 14th July 2026 ·  Billed in ZAR (R2,125) through our SA payment gateway.

(All advertised USD prices are billed in ZAR through our South African payment gateway.)

Consistency is the hallmark of a professional author — and it starts with your style sheet.

What We’ll Cover

The live session breakdown

Author Style Guides▾
Build a personal style guide that covers your writing voice, formatting preferences, and series-specific details — the document a developmental and a copy editor would have built for you in traditional publishing.
Series Bibles & Continuity▾
Comprehensive series bibles that track characters, timelines, world-building, and plot threads across multiple books. Eye colour, capitalisation choices, hyphen rules — all the things readers will absolutely notice when they break.
Your Stylesheet Keeps AI From Drifting Your Voice▾
AI’s biggest tell is voice drift — cheesy adverbs, AI clichés, prose that doesn’t sound like you. A stylesheet handed to Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini holds your voice across every chapter and every book.
AI-Assisted Style Management▾
Use AI tools to maintain and enforce your style rules, catch inconsistencies, and speed up the editing process — without rewriting your voice into something generic.

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of the live session…

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A complete personal style sheet template

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Series bible frameworks for tracking continuity

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Brand consistency guidelines across all platforms

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AI-assisted workflows for style management

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You learn best in live sessions where you can ask questions and get real-time feedback

Frequently Asked

Before you book, the quick stuff…

Is this for fiction or non-fiction?▾
Both. Style sheets are essential for maintaining consistency in any type of writing or publishing.
Are there recordings?▾
No. This is a live, attend-once experience. The value is in showing up, doing the work in real time, and getting live feedback from Coral and the group.
What if I can’t make the live date?▾
A self-paced on-demand version of the Style Sheet Workshop is live now — same teaching, watch at your own pace, $97 vs $121.

From the Live Workshop

In Coral’s Own Words

“I have worked with style sheets in my AI writing and my non-AI writing since 2010. My first editor still tells me to this day — if an editor doesn’t give you a style sheet, they’re not an editor.”

— Coral Hart, live teaching

“Style is different to craft. Style is about making it your own, and learning how to carry that style and that voice across your books and across your series — whether you’re writing with AI or not.”

— Coral Hart, live teaching

Excerpted from a live teaching session inside Plotprose Academy.


New · On-Demand

Can’t wait for the live cohort?

A full self-paced version of the Style Sheet Workshop is live in the classroom now — 55 lessons, 253 video parts, watch at your own pace for $97 (vs $121 live).

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