Digital + printable planner for psych thriller writers
The Ultimate Psychological Thriller Writing Planner
Hide the truth, unsettle your narrator and land the twist
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 86-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 Psychological Thriller novel from the first idea to publication day. The Psychological Thriller Writing Planner is written for Psychological Thriller writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, secrets, twist, plot, narrator, 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 Psychological Thriller Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 86 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre & tropes
- Comparable titles
Secrets7 pages
- The secret & the narrator
- Told vs true
- Secrets tracker
Twist5 pages
- The twist & misdirection
- Twist clue tracker
- Then & now
Plot10 pages
- Psych thriller structure
- Plot map & unease graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Narrator5 pages
- Narrator profile & voice
- Cracks in the surface
- 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
- Twist 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 Psychological Thriller writers
Who can the reader trust?
- The secret at the heart of the story
- Told vs true: what the narrator says against what's true
- A secrets tracker: whose, who knows and when it's revealed
- Doubt and manipulation, plus an antagonist page
A twist nobody sees coming
- The twist, and the misdirection that hides it
- Then and now, to plan how two timelines reveal each other
- A twist clue tracker and the unravelling
- Narrator profile, wound and flaw, and cracks in the surface
Turn up the unease
- Psychological Thriller Structure and three-act structure pages
- Plot map, unease graph, subplots and chapter hooks
- Scene lists and 12 scene cards
- Six cast profiles, a relationship web and setting pages
Write, edit and publish
- Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
- A Twist Checklist for your edit
- Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
- Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief
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