The Ultimate Literary Fiction Writing Planner

Plan your Literary Fiction novel from the first idea to publication day. The Literary Fiction Writing Planner is written for Literary Fiction writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, heart, craft, 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: 81-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, 81 pages in the PDF: Idea, Heart, Craft, Plot, Protagonist, Cast, World, Write, Edit, Pitch & Blurb and Publish.

Find the question at its heart

• The question the book asks, and the scenes that test it
• Interior life: what your protagonist thinks but never says
• Track motifs and images and how their meaning shifts
• Subtext: what's said, what's meant, what the reader senses

Tune the voice on every page

• Structure and form, starting with point of view and tense
• Describe the voice, then write a sample paragraph
• A personal style sheet: dialogue, imagery, pacing and more
• The ending: what's resolved, what isn't, the final image

Give the story its shape

• Story shape beats to use loosely, plus three-act structure
• Plot map and an emotional intensity graph
• Protagonist profile: voice, history, wound and flaw
• Six cast profiles, a relationship web and setting pages

Write, edit and publish

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

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