A novel writing planner with a plot outline, 12 character profiles, setting and world pages, a scene list, a chapter tracker with word counts and a monthly writing tracker.
A novel planner with a plot outline built on familiar story beats, 12 character profiles, setting and world pages, a scene list, a chapter tracker with target and current word counts, a writing tracker for every month, goal pages, a writing habit tracker and monthly reviews.
Rendered by the same engine that builds yours, in the Dark Academia theme for iPad portrait.
Plot outline, character profiles, setting pages, a scene list, chapter tracker and writing tracker.
Goal planners, vision board and reviews.
A habit tracker for every month.
A reflection page at the end of each month.
Cover and contents · 2 pages
A cover with your name and a linked contents page that every tab returns to.
Year overview · 1 page
The whole year on one page. Tap any date to open it.
Year goals · 1 page
Your goals and their milestones in one place, filled in by the AI if you use it.
Monthly calendars · every month
A month grid with a focus list and notes. Every date links to its day or week.
Weekly pages · every week
One page per week with your weekly goal actions and priorities.
Notes · 20 pages
Lined, dotted, grid or blank pages. You choose how many, up to 100.
The sample above comes to 141 pages over 12 months. Yours changes with the months, sections and notes pages you choose.
Type a goal like one of these and the AI breaks it into a milestone for each month and a small action for each week, then prints them on your month and week pages. You read and edit every line before you download.
Your goal
Finish the first draft by June
Your goal
Write 1,000 words a day
Your goal
Outline the whole book before drafting
Fill in the plot outline: title, genre, a one-line logline, target word count and deadline, then the big beats from opening to resolution.
Give each main character a profile page: what they want, what they fear, their flaw and their arc.
Use the setting pages for places, rules, history and the details you'll want to keep consistent.
Plan scenes in order with point of view, goal, conflict and outcome, then group them into chapters on the chapter tracker.
Each month's writing tracker has a row per day for words written and notes, so you can see momentum build.
A book writing planner needs the story and the habit side by side. This one includes:
Dated month calendars and a weekly page for each week, where you can block writing sessions and deadlines. No daily pages; the writing tracker logs each day's words.
Two plot outline pages, 12 character profiles, four world building pages, four scene lists, two chapter trackers with target and current word counts, and a writing tracker for every month.
A vision board, goal planners, quarterly reviews and a year in review, for drafting, editing and querying milestones.
A monthly habit tracker set up for writing, word counts, reading in your genre and backing up the file.
A monthly review page to look at words written, what worked and what to change next month.
Every section can be switched off in the builder, and sections from other planners can be added.
A digital novel planner sits next to your manuscript on a tablet, and you can paste mood board images onto character and setting pages.
Printed, the plot outline and scene list are easy to spread across a desk while you rearrange the story. Print them on A4 or US Letter for more room.
One goal, followed through a single week. The milestone and weekly actions are the kind of lines the AI goal step writes onto your month and week pages; the daily notes are what you add by hand.
Goal
Write 1,000 words a day
Milestone for November
7,000 words in the first week
This week's actions
The character pages ask the questions that keep characters consistent across a whole book:
iPad — Portrait
GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo, Collanote, ZoomNotes
iPad — Landscape
GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo
Android tablet — Portrait
Samsung Notes, Penly, Flexcil, Xodo, Noteshelf
Android tablet — Landscape
Samsung Notes, Penly, Flexcil, Xodo
E-ink tablet
reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, Boox, Supernote
Printable — A5
Print at home or at a print shop, fits A5 binders
Printable — A4
Print at home on standard A4 paper
Printable — US Letter
Print at home on US Letter paper
Printable — Half Letter
Fits Happy Planner classic and half-letter discs
Dark Academia
Dark mode with warm brown leather and old-library gold.
Prefer something else? Pick from 13 themes, including dark mode and an e-ink theme, and change the accent colour.
See all themesYes. Start the planner in November in the builder, set a 50,000-word goal, and use the writing tracker to log words each day. The scene list and outline pages help you plan in October.
Yes. Plotters can fill in the outline and scene list first; discovery writers can skip to the writing tracker and fill in the outline afterwards to check the shape of the story.
You can build this novel planner and flip through every page in your browser for free, with a watermark. The tabs and links work in the preview, so you can check the layout before you pay. The clean PDF is $12 once, or included in Pro at $49 a year for unlimited planners. There is no free download of the full planner.
Yes. Download the iPad size for GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo, Collanote or ZoomNotes; the Android size for Samsung Notes, Penly, Flexcil or Xodo; or the E-ink size for reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, Boox and Supernote. The links work in any app that follows PDF links, usually in read mode rather than pen mode. Every size is included in the price.
Yes. Choose A5, A4, US Letter or Half Letter in the builder for a printable PDF with a wider inner margin for hole punching. Printable and digital sizes come with the same purchase, so you can use the novel planner on a tablet and print the pages you want on paper.
Dated by default, starting in January 2027. You can pick any start month and year (including this month), a length from 3 months to 5 years, and Monday or Sunday weeks. Or switch to undated and write the dates in yourself, so a skipped week isn't wasted.
Only the goal parts, and only if you want it to. Type up to six goals and the AI writes a milestone for each month and a short action for each week onto your month and week pages, plus a motto for each month. You can edit every line before you download. Everything else, from the calendar pages to the trackers, is yours to fill in by hand. You can try it 3 times a day without an account.
With the default settings it comes to about 160 pages. That includes 12 month pages, 53 weekly pages, the Novel Writing, Goals, Habits and Monthly Reviews pages and 20 notes pages. Switching off sections makes it shorter, and the builder shows the total as you change things.
Set your dates, device and goals, flip through the preview free, and pay only when it's right.
Build this planner
Reading challenge, TBR, logs and 24 book reviews — in dark academia style.
Plan videos, posts, brand deals and growth in one dark-mode planner.
Type your goals. Get a planner with every milestone already on the right page.
Your habits printed on every month, with reviews to keep you honest.
