Digital + printable planner for women's fiction
The Ultimate Women's Fiction Writing Planner
Family, friendship, secrets and second chances
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 83-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 Women's Fiction novel from the first idea to publication day. The Women's Fiction Writing Planner is written for Women's Fiction writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, journey, family, 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
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Real pages from the Women's Fiction Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 83 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre & tropes
- Comps & title library
Journey5 pages
- The emotional journey
- Turning points
- Then & now timelines
Family5 pages
- Family tree
- Family dynamics & secrets
- Friendships
Plot10 pages
- Story structure
- Plot map & stakes graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Heroine4 pages
- Heroine profile
- 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
- Women's fiction 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 Women's Fiction writers
Map her emotional journey
- Her emotional journey: where she starts, who she becomes
- Turning points, with how she feels and what she does next
- A Then & Now tracker for stories with two timelines
- Theme and book club questions for the back of the book
Family, friends and secrets
- A three-generation family tree and the patterns that repeat
- Family dynamics: the roles, rules and resentments
- Secrets: whose each one is, who knows and when it comes out
- Friendships, love and relationships
A heroine readers root for
- Story structure beats, starting with her life before
- Plot map and a chapter by chapter emotional stakes graph
- Heroine profile: voice, history, wound and flaw
- Six cast profiles, a relationship web and setting pages
Write, edit and publish
- Opening lines, daily word counts and a project tracker
- A Women's Fiction Checklist to revise against
- Blurb research, a workshop and two blurb drafts
- Cover brief, Amazon keywords and a pre-publish checklist
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