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Digital + printable planner for romance writers

The Ultimate Small Town Romance Writing Planner

A town you'll never want to leave and a love worth coming home for

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$5.99Goodnotes & PDF

What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition

  • 102-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 Small Town Romance novel from the first idea to publication day. The Small Town Romance Writing Planner is written for Small Town Romance writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 12 sections cover idea, the town, love story, tropes, plot, leads, 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 Small Town Romance Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.

What's inside

12 sections, 102 pages in the PDF

Idea7 pages

  • What if? & premise
  • Subgenre, tropes & heat
  • Comps & title library

The Town6 pages

  • The town & town map
  • The locals, 1 to 12
  • Town events & traditions

Love Story9 pages

  • The couple & chemistry
  • Milestones & key scenes
  • Grand gesture & HEA

Tropes11 pages

  • Your trope mix
  • 10 dedicated trope pages
  • Return to hometown…

Plot10 pages

  • Small-town beat sheet
  • Plot map & tension graph
  • Scene lists & scene cards

Leads6 pages

  • Profiles for both leads
  • Heart & history
  • Before & after arcs

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

  • Small-town 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 Small Town Romance writers

A town readers move into

  • Build the town, then draw it on the town map
  • Two pages of locals, with room for 12
  • Town events and traditions to set scenes around
  • A Belonging page for what the town means to your leads

A love worth coming home for

  • The couple, their chemistry and the obstacles between them
  • Relationship milestones and key romantic scenes
  • Dual POV tracker, grand gesture, HEA and series planner
  • Full profiles and before and after arcs for both leads

10 tropes and a town to plot

  • A page each for 10 tropes, from single parent to fake dating
  • The Small-Town Romance Beat Sheet
  • Plot map and romantic tension graph
  • Scene lists, scene cards and chapter hooks

Write, edit and publish

  • Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
  • A Small-Town Checklist for your edit
  • Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
  • Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief

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