The Ultimate Young Adult Writing Planner

Plan your Young Adult novel from the first idea to publication day. The Young Adult Writing Planner is written for Young Adult writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, teen world, growing up, plot, protagonist, cast, world, write, edit, pitch & blurb and publish.

Choose your format below. Each format is an instant download, and every format comes with the Recommended Resources for Authors PDF.

• Goodnotes & PDF: 83-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links; two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design; printable US Letter versions of both designs.
• Microsoft Word: Editable Word document (.docx) with clickable contents; worked examples showing how each page is used; prints on A4 or US Letter.
• Notion template: Notion template you duplicate into your own workspace; linked dashboard and pages, with built-in databases and tracker tables; works on the free Notion plan, on desktop, tablet and phone.
• Scrivener template: Scrivener 3 project template; the planner's pages set up in the binder, beside your manuscript.
• Plottr template: Plottr template (.pltr); How to Use Your Plottr Template guide (PDF).
• E-ink edition: Hyperlinked PDF made for e-ink tablets; larger text and high-contrast pages.

What's inside

11 sections, 83 pages in the PDF: Idea, Teen World, Growing Up, Plot, Protagonist, Cast, World, Write, Edit, Pitch & Blurb and Publish.

Nail the teen voice

• Age and stakes: why the adults can't fix it
• The voice: how your narrator sounds now
• School and home, the two worlds they move between
• The friend group and the romance thread

Chart the coming of age

• Coming-of-age arc: the crisis and the choice that defines them
• Firsts and milestones, and what each one changes
• The adults, and why they aren't enough
• Age and content check for younger or older YA

Stakes that feel enormous

• YA story structure beats, whatever genre your YA is
• Plot map and a chapter by chapter emotional stakes graph
• Protagonist profile, before and after arc and series arc
• Six cast profiles, a relationship web and setting pages

Write, edit and publish

• Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
• A YA Checklist for your edit
• Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
• Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief

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