Digital + printable planner for romance writers
The Ultimate Why Choose Romance Writing Planner
One heroine, several love interests and no need to choose
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 92-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
- Recommended Resources for Authors PDF
A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.
About this planner
Plan your Why Choose Romance novel from the first idea to publication day. The Why Choose Romance Writing Planner is written for Why Choose Romance writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, the group, tropes, plot, heroine, cast, world, write, edit, pitch & blurb and publish.
It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template, Scrivener template, Plottr template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.
Sample pages
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Why Choose Romance Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 92 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre, tropes & heat
- Comps & title library
The Group7 pages
- Why choose?
- Four love interests
- Group dynamics
Tropes11 pages
- Your trope mix
- 10 dedicated trope pages
- Found family, fated mates…
Plot10 pages
- Why choose beat sheet
- Plot map & tension graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Heroine5 pages
- Heroine: the basics
- Voice & history
- Wound & flaw
Cast5 pages
- Supporting cast list
- Six cast profiles
- Relationship web
World4 pages
- Setting: the big picture
- Specific locations
- Research list & notes
Write7 pages
- Plan of action
- Opening lines
- 100-day word tracker
Edit6 pages
- Why choose checklist
- Plot holes & scene changes
- Beta readers & editors
Pitch & Blurb7 pages
- Logline & elevator pitch
- Hooks & taglines
- Blurb workshop & drafts
Publish7 pages
- Book details & cover brief
- Amazon keywords
- Categories & checklist
Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.
Highlights
Made for Why Choose Romance writers
Every love interest earns it
- Start with Why Choose? and what makes this group work
- Space for four love interests across two pages
- Group dynamics and a page-time balance tracker
- Individual arcs for each of them, and a page for her agency
A heroine at the centre
- Heroine pages: the basics, voice and history
- Her wound and flaw, and her before and after
- A series arc page for stories that run over several books
- Supporting cast list, six cast profiles and relationship web
Found family and a beat sheet
- A page for each of 10 tropes, from found family to slow burn
- The Why Choose Beat Sheet
- Plot map and romantic tension graph
- Scene lists, scene cards and chapter hooks
Write, edit and publish
- Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
- A Why Choose Checklist for your edit
- Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
- Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief
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