The Ultimate Author Planner

Plan your year, build your story, write every day and edit well. The Author Planner has 6 sections: plan, story, characters, write, edit 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: 88-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.
• E-ink edition: Hyperlinked PDF made for e-ink tablets; larger text and high-contrast pages.

What's inside

6 sections, 88 pages in the PDF: Plan, Story, Characters, Write, Edit and Publish.

Plan your writing year

• A daily planner for every day of the week
• Monthly, quarterly and yearly goals
• A five-year plan for your writing life
• Income and expense trackers

Build a story that works

• Ideas: What if?, premise and one-pager
• Three-act structure, plot map and tension graph
• Scene lists, scene cards and chapter hooks
• Setting, research, comps and a title library

Characters readers remember

• 10 pages on your protagonist: voice, wound, flaw, motivation
• A 5-page antagonist profile
• Supporting cast list and six cast profiles
• Family tree, life timeline and relationship web

Write, edit and publish

• Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
• Plot holes, scene changes and editing notes
• Beta reader and professional editor trackers
• Hooks, taglines and your book description

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