The Ultimate Short Story Writing Planner

Write, polish and place your short stories, from spark to collection. The Short Story Writing Planner has 8 sections: ideas, craft, submissions, collection, 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: 54-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

8 sections, 54 pages in the PDF: Ideas, Craft, Submissions, Collection, Write, Edit, Pitch & Blurb and Publish.

Send your stories out

• Markets & Magazines to research where to send your work
• A competition calendar so you never miss a deadline
• Two submission tracker pages
• Results & feedback, plus published stories & rights

From spark to last line

• Idea bank, story seeds, prompts and competition themes
• Three story planner pages
• Short Story Structure and a flash fiction planner
• A page just for The Ending

Gather them into a collection

• Collection Concept: what ties your stories together
• Two running order pages to put the stories in sequence
• Logline, hooks and taglines for the finished book
• Blurb research, workshop, two drafts and a checklist

Write, edit and publish

• Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
• Opening lines and a Short Story Checklist
• Beta readers and editing notes
• Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief

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