Digital + printable planner for portal fantasy writers
The Ultimate Portal Fantasy Writing Planner
An ordinary life, a door to another world and the way back home
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 96-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 Portal Fantasy novel from the first idea to publication day. The Portal Fantasy Writing Planner is written for Portal Fantasy writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, portal, other world, 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 Portal Fantasy Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 96 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre & tropes
- Comps & title library
Portal5 pages
- The portal & its rules
- Two worlds compared
- Fish out of water
Other World14 pages
- The world & the map
- Kingdoms, cultures & gods
- Magic system & spells
Plot10 pages
- Portal fantasy structure
- Plot map & stakes graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Characters8 pages
- Hero: 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
- Portal fantasy 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 Portal Fantasy writers
Open the door between worlds
- The portal: how it works, who knows and what it costs to cross
- Two Worlds: compare our world with the other one
- A Fish Out of Water tracker and the Why Them? question
- Going Home: plan the choice to stay or return
A world worth staying for
- A map page, plus geography and climate
- Eight kingdoms and nations, cultures, religion and gods
- A history timeline, languages and names
- Magic system, spells, objects, creatures, prophecy and lore
An ordinary hero, a new world
- Portal Fantasy Structure beats, from the ordinary world on
- Plot map, stakes graph, scene lists and scene cards
- Hero, 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 Portal Fantasy Checklist for your edit
- Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
- Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief
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