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Description
General Info:
• Setting:
• Genre (epic, fantasy, historical, romantic, action, adventure, comedy, horror, drama, etc):
• Theme (meaning or dominant idea behind the story):
• Synopsis (the story summed up into one or two sentences, with or without ending):
• Main characters:

General Story Overview:
• Orientation:
• Complication:
• Climax:
• Resolution:
• Subplots:

The Three Acts:
• Act 1 (orientation and first problem):
• Act 2 (struggling to solve problem):
• Act 3 (climax and ending):

The Hero's Journey (skip this if not familiar with hero's journey):
• The Ordinary World:
• The Call to Adventure:
• Refusal of the Call (for the reluctant hero):
• Mentor (the wise old man or woman):
• Crossing the First Threshold:
• Tests, Allies and Enemies:
• Approach to the Inmost Cave:
• The Ordeal:
• Reward:
• The Road Back:
• Resurrection:
• Return With the Elixir:

Character Info:
• Protagonist:
• Antagonist:
• Helper(s):
• Mentor (if applicable):
• Others (if applicable):

Character Archetypes (for hero's journey so skip this if not relevant):
• Hero:
• Mentor/Friend:
• Herald (announces call to adventure):
• Shadow (villain):
• Threshold Guardian (obstacle):
• Trickster (comic relief):
• Shapeshifter (not who they appear to be, disguises their true identity/appearance):

(Sometimes more than one role is fulfilled by the same character)

Important Elements:
• Key locations (places the story will keep coming back to):
• Key props (objects important to story):
• Key events (events which the story will not be able to progress without):

Development:
• Number of chapters (intended – can become more if needed):
• Is this a trilogy/series (a number of books make up the story)?:
• Subplots (what subplots are happening alongside the main story and which characters do they relate to? Do they at any point collide with the main story?):

Using the above information, flesh out your story by filling in the events you intend to happen in each chapter.

If you have any ideas for scenes in the story, make a note of them quickly before you forget them. You can organize these later and trash the ones which don't serve a purpose to the story.

Description
General Info:
• Setting:
• Genre (epic, fantasy, historical, romantic, action, adventure, comedy, horror, drama, etc):
• Theme (meaning or dominant idea behind the story):
• Synopsis (the story summed up into one or two sentences, with or without ending):
• Main characters:

General Story Overview:
• Orientation:
• Complication:
• Climax:
• Resolution:
• Subplots:

The Three Acts:
• Act 1 (orientation and first problem):
• Act 2 (struggling to solve problem):
• Act 3 (climax and ending):

The Hero's Journey (skip this if not familiar with hero's journey):
• The Ordinary World:
• The Call to Adventure:
• Refusal of the Call (for the reluctant hero):
• Mentor (the wise old man or woman):
• Crossing the First Threshold:
• Tests, Allies and Enemies:
• Approach to the Inmost Cave:
• The Ordeal:
• Reward:
• The Road Back:
• Resurrection:
• Return With the Elixir:

Character Info:
• Protagonist:
• Antagonist:
• Helper(s):
• Mentor (if applicable):
• Others (if applicable):

Character Archetypes (for hero's journey so skip this if not relevant):
• Hero:
• Mentor/Friend:
• Herald (announces call to adventure):
• Shadow (villain):
• Threshold Guardian (obstacle):
• Trickster (comic relief):
• Shapeshifter (not who they appear to be, disguises their true identity/appearance):

(Sometimes more than one role is fulfilled by the same character)

Important Elements:
• Key locations (places the story will keep coming back to):
• Key props (objects important to story):
• Key events (events which the story will not be able to progress without):

Development:
• Number of chapters (intended – can become more if needed):
• Is this a trilogy/series (a number of books make up the story)?:
• Subplots (what subplots are happening alongside the main story and which characters do they relate to? Do they at any point collide with the main story?):

Using the above information, flesh out your story by filling in the events you intend to happen in each chapter.

If you have any ideas for scenes in the story, make a note of them quickly before you forget them. You can organize these later and trash the ones which don't serve a purpose to the story.