Lily Ramsey, 12, collaboratively authored two books with fellow students through a team-based storytelling program and is now working solo on a third novel.

Ramsey is working through an online program, “Written Out Loud,” as part of her homeschool curriculum. Originally a seminar course taught at Yale University, the program paired her with two other students from across the country, along with the program’s “story directors.” They collaborated weekly developing plot and characters via Zoom and Google Drive.

“Sometimes we do a game or activity during a Zoom session that will give us a tool or part of the ‘Heroes Journey’ they suggest we build upon. We’ve learned about a lot of different writing tools and techniques ... plot points, world building and character development and how crucial that is for the whole storyline,” Ramsey said. “It’s really fun.”

The first book, titled “Wisdom’s Daughter,” was published in March through the self-publishing company Lulu. It clocks in at around 80 pages and is divided into 23 chapters. The book incorporates Greek mythology and follows the daughter of Athena after she’s captured by Medusa. Sentenced to “life as a normal girl,” she has to figure out where she belongs.

“I’ve been studying Greek myths and Roman, Egyptian and Norse myths for studies for school, but I’ve taken it farther,” Ramsey said. “It was cool to incorporate those into the story and build off of it with my own take. I just think it’s really cool that people were writing and creating their own stories they thought were true a long time ago.

Ramsey also loves the Harry Potter series. For her second collaborative book, titled “Book a Novel: A Kid and his Friends Go to Off-Brand Hogwarts,” she and fellow students riffed off the setting and magical themes related to the popular series by J.K Rowling.

“The second book is about a boy who discovers that his parents tell him he has to go to this one school and he doesn’t know what’s going on and realizes that the school is a magical school with different elements,” Ramsey said. “They have to defeat the new evil headmistress so they can protect the world of magic from being lost forever.”

That book is currently in the publishing process. This summer she plans to work on her own novel, as part of her summer school curriculum, which centers around a 12-year-old girl named Ella who lives in a five-story library. The characters are able to travel into books and explore the dangers and wonders inside.

The program provided Ramsey with a partial scholarship to complete the novel, said Ramsey’s mother, Mandy Ramsey.

“It’s been cool seeing her collaborate with kids across the country. It was really special when her teacher reached out to Scott and me and said she’d be a good candidate to go into the next writing program. She’s been pretty committed.”

Ramsey said she’s still developing her writing habits. She sets goals each week to write one or more chapters or develop an outline.

“Sometimes I’ll just read the last paragraph or the last few sentences of the final piece I’ve written. The first idea that comes from that, I’ll write from there. I just let my creativity flow, and it helps me keep writing.”

“Wisdom’s Daughter” is available to order via the self-publishing website Lulu for $15.