Digital + printable planner for time travel writers
The Ultimate Time Travel Writing Planner
Rules, paradoxes and timelines that twist
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 92-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 Time Travel novel from the first idea to publication day. The Time Travel Writing Planner is written for Time Travel writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, time, story, plot, traveller, 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 Time Travel Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 92 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre & tropes
- Comps & title library
Time6 pages
- Rules of time travel
- Timeline map
- Paradox check
Story12 pages
- The threat & ticking clock
- Antagonist plan & timeline
- Eight set pieces
Plot10 pages
- Time travel structure
- Plot map & stakes graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Traveller5 pages
- Traveller profile
- Voice & history
- Wound & flaw
Cast5 pages
- Supporting cast list
- Six cast profiles
- Relationship web
Places4 pages
- Two key location pages
- Research list & notes
- Key location 1 & 2
Write7 pages
- Plan of action
- Opening lines
- 100-day word tracker
Edit6 pages
- Time travel 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 Time Travel writers
Set the rules of time travel
- The rules: how it works and whether the past can change
- A timeline map: the original beside the altered timeline
- A paradox check for every trip or change
- Time periods visited, anchors and ripples
A threat and a ticking clock
- The threat, the antagonist's plan and their timeline
- Raising the stakes and a ticking clock countdown
- Cat and mouse moves and eight set pieces
- Twists, reversals, secrets, lies and the climax
A traveller worth following
- Time travel structure beats and a three-act breakdown
- Plot map, stakes graph, scene lists and scene cards
- Traveller profile: voice, history, wound and flaw
- Six cast profiles, a relationship web and a series arc
Write, edit and publish
- Opening lines, daily word counts and a project tracker
- A Time Travel Checklist to revise against
- Blurb research, a workshop and two blurb drafts
- Cover brief, Amazon keywords and a pre-publish checklist
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