Digital + printable planner for YA writers
The Ultimate Young Adult Writing Planner
Find the voice, raise the stakes, write the story teens want to read
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 83-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 Young Adult novel from the first idea to publication day. The Young Adult Writing Planner is written for Young Adult writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, teen world, growing up, plot, protagonist, 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
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Young Adult Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 83 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Genre & tropes
- Comps & title library
Teen World5 pages
- Age & stakes
- The voice
- School & home
Growing Up4 pages
- The coming-of-age arc
- Firsts & milestones
- The adults
Plot10 pages
- YA story structure
- Plot map & stakes graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Protagonist5 pages
- Protagonist profile
- Voice & history
- 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
- YA 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 Young Adult writers
Nail the teen voice
- Age and stakes: why the adults can't fix it
- The voice: how your narrator sounds now
- School and home, the two worlds they move between
- The friend group and the romance thread
Chart the coming of age
- Coming-of-age arc: the crisis and the choice that defines them
- Firsts and milestones, and what each one changes
- The adults, and why they aren't enough
- Age and content check for younger or older YA
Stakes that feel enormous
- YA story structure beats, whatever genre your YA is
- Plot map and a chapter by chapter emotional stakes graph
- Protagonist profile, before and after arc and series arc
- Six cast profiles, a relationship web and setting pages
Write, edit and publish
- Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
- A YA Checklist for your edit
- Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
- Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief
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