Notion Novel Writing Template

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Summary: Organize your book project in Notion with this large and powerful template for authors that rivals dedicated software like Scrivener, Bibisco and The Novel Factory.

Features:

🧙‍♂️ Character Profiles

Build a database of character profiles, complete with template profiles to duplicate for each character – just fill in the details.

📝 Outline Database

Outline your story by structuring plot points in a database and dividing them by chapter. In the database, you can tag scenes with characters and set filters to follow subplots.

❄️ Synopsis (Snowflake Method)

Need to flesh out your story? Write a synopsis to get to know the story before you waste precious writing time going in the wrong direction.

🧪 Research Notes

Organize your research notes, web clippings, links, videos, etc. on a dedicated page. Easily find what you’re looking for via a visual overview or by using the search feature.

🌏 Fantasy World Building

Particularly in fantasy and sci-fi, build and define your physical world in areas such as geography, cultures, creatures, magic and physical objects. Build a beautiful wiki of your world that you can share publicly.

✏️ Chapter Pages

Write scenes, full chapters or the entire first draft on the go when inspiration strikes, from any device. If you built an outline database, the outline of a chapter is also synced on the chapters’ own page.

🗣️ Beta Reader Feedback

Manage large amounts of feedback by adding actionable feedback points to a list. Tag feedback points with relevant characters and use filters to track changes made to specific subplots.

🎯 Writing Goals

Set daily, weekly or monthly writing goals and keep yourself accountable. Goals can be word targets or time-based targets, or specific tasks to complete by a due date.

✅ Progress Tracker

Track your writing progress using 49 common steps most authors go through at some point, in some order, and to some extent. Mark steps as done as you complete them to always know how far you’ve come – and what work still remains to be done.

📚 Learn the Craft

The Progress Tracker doubles as a valuable resource on how to write a novel. Click on a step to learn more about it – the steps read like chapters in a book about writing, with insights on planning, writing, editing, publishing and marketing a novel.

📖 Self-publish a Book

This template doesn’t let you actually self-publish, but the Progress Tracker includes the exact steps on how to self-publish a book – as well as how to find and pitch to agents and traditional publishers.

💵 Marketing Activities

50+ suggested marketing activities, starting six months from the book launch. Build your own marketing plan and organize your marketing campaigns.

📩 Contact Lists & Budget

Shortlist beta readers, editors, agents, publishers, artists, and other professionals you work with. Store contact details, add costs to plan your budget/compare offers, and track your communication status – never forget who you e-mailed and when.

📧 Mailing List

Build a mailing list for marketing. You can set up a Notion-driven form on your website to automatically collect e-mail addresses to this Notion database. Export the database to add new contacts to your choice of e-mail client. Perfect for newsletters!

📁 Files & Documents

Upload important files you want easy access to, for example a backup copy of your latest draft, product photos for marketing, and your cover letter for pitching to agents/publishers.

📗 Book Cover Comparison

Upload different drafts of your book cover for comparison, or book covers that you like for inspiration, in a visual and organized gallery.

⭐ Reviews

Collect reviews you’ve received from various sites and platforms in one place. Great for marketing purposes, to compile post-launch feedback, or just as an ego boost!

📔 Project Dashboard

All of the above features and functionality are accessed via a menu page – your book's dashboard. The Novel Writing template has you covered every step of the way throughout the enormous project that writing a novel really is.

➕ …and More!

The advantage of Notion over for example Scrivener, The Novel Factory or Bibisco is that it covers quite literally everything in a single tool, not just writing and planning. You can even tweak the template and add your own pages – that’s ultimate flexibility!

The Novel Writing Template is a powerful framework, adaptable to your unique novel. It transforms Notion, which is a free note taking & project management app, into a power tool for authors who like to be organized. Once you've gotten into using the template you'll wonder how you ever managed without it – and when you reach the next step of your writing journey the tools to get things done are waiting for you! :)

If you have any feedback, questions or suggestions, get in touch: jozii89 [at] gmail.com