Hey there,
I'm Julian.
& Creator of the Story Pillars Method.
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The Story Pillars Method
Writing craft
For fiction writers who have read the craft books, mapped the beats, and still watched their draft fall apart.
Years of reverse-engineering bestsellers revealed a pattern those books leave out: the inner and outer storylines wind around each other like the two strands of a DNA helix, colliding at precise points to drive the story forward. The Story Pillars Method is the system built from that pattern.
It's how you write a first draft that won't collapse in revision, then revise it into a finished manuscript.
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Arrow Minded Trilogy (working title)
Speculative thriller
A man returns to the family manor he spent years trying to escape, called back by his parents' deaths. Among his father's belongings, he finds a collection of encrypted poems: passwords hidden in verse, written in a world that no longer trusts the cloud and keeps its most dangerous secrets on paper. As he decodes them, the evidence around their deaths starts pointing somewhere he never expected, and a figure from his past returns to bury what he's about to find.
A story about inheritance, obsession, and what we bury so others won't find it.
Written using The Story Pillars Method.
Work With Me
The Story Pillars Mentorship is three months of working directly with me on your novel. One-to-one sessions, feedback every step of the way, and a community of serious writers who progress with you. The work is structural: we build your story properly so that the first draft you write carries the complexity you've been carrying in your head for years.
About
When I was eighteen, I had a story idea that would, years later, turn out to be the most ambitious creative work of my life.
But being a creative wasn't really an option back then. So I buried it and got on with life. I moved to London, joined the London School of Economics to do academic research, and then pursued a career in an advisory and research firm.
One day, the story slipped its way back through the cracks of a pretty settled life. But no amount of books or YouTube videos truly helped me write it the way I saw it in my head without the story falling apart halfway through. A draft cursed to exist between pure action and pure introspection, with neither holding the other together. So after looking at a draft that would take me years to fix, I decided to treat my own novel like a research problem… which meant studying existing frameworks, identifying gaps, and building something new. And that's how The Story Pillars Method came to be, which pretty much saved my sanity… and my draft.
Then I decided to share the method on YouTube, and it found its way to writers who were stuck in the same place I'd been. People started asking for a book on the method. So before I go back to my trilogy, I want The Story Pillars Method book to exist properly as something you can sit with, work through, and return to. It does mean my debut novel will have to wait, but I've built what I needed to finish it without spending years revising it.