Digital + printable planner for grimdark writers
The Ultimate Grimdark Fantasy Writing Planner
Broken worlds, morally grey characters and no clean answers
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 91-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 Grimdark Fantasy novel from the first idea to publication day. The Grimdark Fantasy Writing Planner is written for Grimdark Fantasy writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, broken world, grey, plot, characters, cast, places, 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 Grimdark Fantasy Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 91 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre & tropes
- Comps & title library
Broken World8 pages
- The rot
- Factions & power
- The world & the map
Grey6 pages
- Moral greyness
- Violence & consequence
- Betrayals & corruption arc
Plot10 pages
- Grimdark structure
- Plot map & stakes graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Characters8 pages
- Antihero: basics to wound
- Antagonist & their plan
- The companions
Cast5 pages
- Supporting cast list
- Six cast profiles
- Relationship web
Places4 pages
- Two key locations
- Research list & notes
- Key location 1
Write7 pages
- Plan of action
- Opening lines
- 100-day word tracker
Edit6 pages
- Grimdark 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 Grimdark Fantasy writers
No heroes, only hard choices
- Plan the impossible choice at the heart of the book
- Four point-of-view character profiles
- Track each act of violence, what it costs and every betrayal
- A corruption arc: who they were and what the world made them
Decide what's rotten
- The Rot: what's broken, who profits and why nobody fixes it
- Four factions: what they want and how far they'll go
- The world, with a map page to sketch it
- Magic system, spells, magical objects, creatures and races
An antihero worth following
- Grimdark Structure beats, plus the three-act structure
- Plot map, stakes graph, scene lists and scene cards
- Antihero, antagonist and companion profiles
- Six cast profiles, a relationship web and a series arc
Write, edit and publish
- Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
- A Grimdark Checklist for your edit
- Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
- Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief
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