Outlining Your Novel Workbook - Deluxe Fillable PDF Version

Turn your story idea into a detailed, cohesive plan with a step-by-step workbook designed to help you discover your best story before you write it.

The Outlining Your Novel Deluxe Fillable Workbook is a comprehensive story-planning resource for novelists and fiction writers who want to brainstorm, develop, and organize every major element of a novel. Based on K.M. Weiland’s Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success, the workbook guides writers through an adaptable outlining process that moves from the story’s big picture into its characters, conflict, setting, structure, scenes, and finer details.

Rather than limiting outlining to a rigid scene-by-scene formula, the exercises are designed to help writers explore possibilities, solve story problems, and develop an outlining process that works for the individual project. The workbook begins with premise development and brainstorming before progressing through general sketches, character development, setting, an extended outline, and unconventional outlining techniques.

(The Outlining Your Novel Workbook is also available as an epub and a paperback.)

What's Included:

• Outlining Your Novel Deluxe Fillable Workbook
• Digital fillable PDF workbook
• Fillable fields for typing answers directly into the workbook
• Step-by-step exercises for developing a novel from initial idea to detailed outline
• Brainstorming exercises to uncover new possibilities and strengthen existing ideas
• Premise, “What If?” questions, log lines, and story summaries
• Scene brainstorming and connecting-the-dots exercises
• Character arcs, goals, motivations, and thematic development
• Conflict and antagonistic forces
• Character backstory and in-depth character interviews
• Personality profiling and minor-character development
• Setting and worldbuilding
• Story structure, voice, POV, audience, and scene planning
• Alternative outlining methods for finding the approach that best fits the story

The workbook is designed to help writers see the story’s big picture before tackling the details, while identifying potential plot holes and weaknesses early in the process.

Bonus: Story Planning Resource Master List: Also included is a 6-page Story Planning Resource Master List, packed with links to in-depth articles for taking your outlining process even further.

Use the bonus alongside the workbook whenever you want additional guidance on brainstorming, plotting, character development, structure, setting, and other elements of planning a novel.

Bonus: 9-Beat Plot Structure Planning Guide: This 2-page visual reference guide provides an at-a-glance overview of the nine major structural beats and where each occurs within the overall story arc—from the Hook through the Resolution.

The guide covers the Hook, Inciting Event, First Plot Point, First Pinch Point, Midpoint, Second Pinch Point, Third Plot Point, Climax, and Resolution, with a concise explanation of the purpose of each beat.

A visual narrative-arc diagram maps all nine beats onto the progression of the story, making this a handy quick-reference companion for understanding where major turning points occur and how they work together to create a cohesive story structure.

Perfect For: Novelists, screenwriters, fiction writers, plotters, outliners, first-time authors, experienced writers developing a new project, and anyone looking for a structured but flexible approach to planning a story.

Use it before drafting to build your novel from the ground up—or return to individual exercises whenever you need to brainstorm possibilities, solve plot problems, deepen characters, or clarify the direction of your story.

Digital Product: This listing is for a digital PDF download. No physical product will be shipped.

Because the workbook is fillable, answers can be typed directly into the PDF and saved for future reference. You can also print the workbook before or after filling it out, depending on your favorite way to work.

Download your fillable workbook now and start writing your best story yet!

Purchase regular (non-fillable) e-book here.

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Purchase Outlining Your Novel, the main guide (on which the workbook is based) here.