Tired of reading your genre and not knowing what you learned?

Sick of restarting drafts that never match what you imagined?

Worried you're taking the long road to figuring this out?

Inside Stop Writing Something Different, you'll learn:

• The Triple Threat — the 3-book shortcut that teaches your niche faster than any method you've tried, so you never go to the page writing blind again
• How to read like a writer, not a reader — the directional practice that extracts reader expectations, structure, conventions, and craft from the books already working in your niche
• How the three books in your Triple Threat work together — and why reading them as a set reveals patterns about your niche that no single book could teach you on its own
• How to stress-test your story choices against what's already landing in your niche — your structure, your tropes, your inciting incident, your voice — so you know before you've written ten books to find out
• How to use stress-testing at every stage of your writing life — whether you're preparing to draft, mid-manuscript, or diagnosing a finished project that didn't hit the way you thought it would
• The Triple Threat Cheat Sheet — a quick-reference cheat sheet with Dana's identification criteria built right in, so you can find your three books and arrive at the workshop ready to put the practice to work immediately

About Me

Hey, my writing friend, I'm Dana.USA Today Bestselling Author. Developmental editor. Book coach. 40+ novels. 20+ years writing, publishing, and editing romance and fantasy.
Here's the thing about this workshop. The Triple Threat came out of necessity.As a developmental editor, I work with authors across multiple genres. On any given week, I could be plotting a billionaire romance, a shifter series, and a paranor-mal fantasy, all at the same time. And every single time, I needed to know what readers in that specific niche expected.Not a vague impression. Not a general sense of the genre. The actual structure. The conventions.
The temperature of that niche right now.
Three books, chosen with specific criteria, turned out to be the answer. Every time.What I've seen in twenty years is this: writers are not struggling because they don't read. They're struggling because nobody ever taught them how reading with intention becomes the shortcut.How what you extract from three books can prevent you from writing ten books to find out what works. How stress-testing your own story choices against what's landing in your niche is how you know. Before you've paid for that lesson with years of your writing life.That's what this workshop is. One system. One practice. One habit you'll reach for every single time you sit down to write.I cannot wait to be in the room with you on May 5th.

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Quick Q&A

Will this work for the type of romance I write?

Yes. The Triple Threat system and the reading practice work across every romance subgenre — billionaire, shifter, mafia, small-town, paranormal, fantasy romance, and everything in between. The criteria are the same regardless of where you write; the books you choose are specific to your niche. If you write in a defined subgenre with a devoted readership, this workshop was built for you.

What if I don't write romance?

The core practice — the Triple Threat, reading like a writer, stress-testing — applies to any well-defined niche. Fantasy, urban fantasy, suspense: if readers in your space have expectations (and they do), this practice works. The examples inside the work-shop will be romance-forward, but the method is yours to carry into whatever genre you're writing.

What if I'm early in my writing journey?

This is actually one of the best times to build this practice. The writers who learn to read like a writer early stop taking the long road before they're even on it. You don't need to have written ten books first. You just need a niche you're writing toward and the willingness to look at it clearly.

I'm a Danja Tales Writers student. Do I need to buy this workshop?

As a DTW member, the replay will be added to the classroom, so the content is included in your membership. Purchasing the workshop gives you lifetime access to the replay in your forever library, yours to revisit anytime.

What exactly is the Triple Threat?

The Triple Threat is something Dana created out of necessity. As a developmental editor and professional novel plotter working with authors across multiple genres at the same time, she needed a way to learn any niche fast — not a general sense of the genre, but an actual working understanding of what readers expected, how the struc-ture moved, and where that niche was right now. She found that three specific books, chosen with the right criteria, gave her everything she needed. Every time. The full system — what those three books are, the criteria for finding them, and how to read them together — is what we're covering on May 5th. That's the work.

What if I don't know which three books to pick?

The identification criteria are part of what we cover and your Triple Threat Cheat Sheet, which is included with your purchase, walks you through exactly how to find your books so you can arrive at the workshop ready to work.

Can I use this for future books?

Yes. That's the whole point. The stress-testing practice works at every stage of your writing life: when you're preparing to draft, when you're mid-manuscript, when you've finished something and want to diagnose what worked and what didn't. This isn't a one-time exercise. It's a practice you'll reach for your entire career.

I have one last question... how can I contact you?

You can reach me at https://danjatales.com/contact/ or inside the DTW Community on Skool. I'm happy to answer any questions before the workshop.