Workbook creator: lessons and exercises from one paragraph

What makes it a workbook

A workbook is judged by what the reader does, not by what they read. So every body chapter Chapbook plans ends in an exercise, and the outline shows you each one before a word is drafted. Drafting then writes a short lesson and stops at the work: lines to write on, checklists to tick, and tables whose empty cells are boxes to fill in.

The sample here, Find Your First 100 Readers, runs that way week by week: a lesson on the reader, then the page, then where those readers gather, each ending in something to do that week.

Who it is for

• Coaches who want clients doing the work between sessions, on paper, in an order you chose.
• Course creators who need a companion to the lessons, one a student can keep open beside the video.
• Trainers and consultants who hand out the same exercises at every workshop and would rather not rebuild them in a word processor.

Print it, or type in it

The PDF is set for printing, with answer lines that leave room for a hand. Turn on Fillable answers in the look and the same pages also take typing: the lines become form fields and the empty boxes become checkboxes, with no change to how the page prints. The fields exist only in the digital PDF. The paperback interior, the EPUB and the Word document stay as they are.

For a printed edition, the workbook exports a KDP-sized paperback interior with mirrored margins and a preflight report, and a full-wrap cover. The free spine and cover template calculator works out the same measurements before you start.

How it works

1. Write the brief. Who the workbook is for and what they can do once they finish it. Add your notes or course material as sources if you have them.
2. Approve the outline. Planning uses 10 credits. Check that each chapter’s exercise is one you would set yourself.
3. Read it free. The free plan drafts one chapter of up to 2,500 words, with a watermarked cover, so you can try an exercise before paying.
4. Draft, edit, export. Drafting uses 1 credit per 125 words, and credits reserved for words that were not written come back. Give it a link and the workbook ends on a Next step page, a button and a QR code to wherever the reader goes next, unless you turn it off.

Give it away from its own page

On a paid plan the workbook gets a public book page where a reader signs up to download the PDF. Each sign-up lands in your Readers list, ready to export as CSV to your email tool.

What it does not do

A Chapbook workbook does not score answers, collect them or track who finished, and it is not a course platform. It writes nonfiction only, in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian and Dutch. The exercises are drafted from your brief and sources, so read them as a teacher would: only you know whether one works for your clients.