The Ultimate Historical Mystery Writing Planner

Plan your Historical Mystery novel from the first idea to publication day. The Historical Mystery Writing Planner is written for Historical Mystery writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, period, crime, plot, sleuth, 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: 89-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, 89 pages in the PDF: Idea, Period, Crime, Plot, Sleuth, Cast, World, Write, Edit, Pitch & Blurb and Publish.

Bring the period to life

• Pin down the period and what daily life looked like
• Detection in the period: solving crime without forensics
• A real events timeline to plot your story against
• Language and anachronisms to keep the voice in period

A sleuth without forensics

• The crime, the victim, the killer and the killer's timeline
• Suspect boards with room for eight suspects
• Clue tracker, red herrings and the reveal
• Sleuth profile, the limits of their world and a series arc

Plot it clue by clue

• Historical Mystery Structure and three-act structure pages
• Plot map, tension graph, subplots and chapter hooks
• Scene lists and 12 scene cards
• Six cast profiles, setting pages and research notes

Write, edit and publish

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

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