Novel Sticky Note Plotters

Outlining Workbooks for Your Story 

Writing a book? Have a bunch of notes everywhere?

Finally, a tool to help you organize your thoughts and outline your novel! Take those scraps of paper, random lines in various spirals, and notes on your phone, and put them all in one organized, accessible place!

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Transfer your ideas, bits of dialogue, and plot points onto sticky notes that can be arranged and rearranged however it best fits your outline. This unique workbook allows your outline to adapt and grow as your project does.

This 6x9 size fits easily into your bag so you always have your outline with you wherever you go. Useful for plotters and pantsers alike, this workbook can help a plotter write faster or a pantser write the summary at the end. See at a glance where you need to flesh out your plot, change directions, or double-check that you are right on track.

Includes pages for:

  • character bios
  • setting
  • uncategorized notes
  • individual chapters​​


​Check out all the writer tools in the Plan to Publish line. Created by author Maria Hoagland utilizing the method she's used to write over twenty successful novels.

Finally, a tool to help you organize your thoughts and outline your novel! Take those scraps of paper, random lines in various spirals, and notes on your phone, and put them all in one organized, accessible place!

Genre-specific Plotters

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Pages in the Novel Sticky Note Plotters

Here are a few examples of the pages in all of the plotters. In addition to the following pages, there are pages for setting notes as well as pages to park unassigned sticky notes while you figure out where they need to go.

Main character: Pages for both man and side characters. The mystery plotter includes bio pages for the sleuth, law enforcement officer, victim, perpetrator, and several suspects. Name: I don't know about you, but I change character names all the time! Use your sticky notes! Occupation/Description/mannerisms: Genre-specific plotters track different details, according to your book's needs. Backstory: Use sticky notes in these boxes so that if/when your character evolves and details change, you can update your notes without the mess! Triangulated relationships: Characters are more interesting if they have overlapping relationships. For example, the main character's best friend could be related to the love interest, or the villain could be a side character's dad as well as the main character's employer. What the character wants: character motivations. What's in the way: obstacles.

Get to know your main and side characters. Each plotter has multiple 2-page spreads for collecting information about your main characters. Similar spreads are included for a number of side characters as well.

The mystery plotter has pages for the sleuth, law enforcement officer, victim, perpetrator, and several suspects as well as side characters.

Character A-Z lists. Quick-look character names: 1. So they don't all start with the same letter. 2. Easy to find when you forget what name you decided on. *Each plotter has 2 pages--one for main characters and one for mentions.

Never forget a character's name. See them all at a glance. Each plotter contains an A-Z table for main characters and another for mentioned characters.

Timeline: A column for date or day for each chapter. A column for major events for each chapter. Timeline: 1. Use sticky page markers so you can move dates and events around as needed. 2. The # at left indicated the chapter #. 3. Left column=date/day of events in the chapter. 4. Right column=key event happening in that chapter. *The # of chapters included in the plotter varies per genre workbook.

Your book's timeline and major events at a glance.

Chapter: Two boxes for 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 sticky notes. One for the chapter #, # of pages, and # of words. The other for the plot point, chapter title or phrase summary. A 3x5

Keep your ideas fluid. Use sticky notes to outline your chapters so you can rearrange as necessary.

Additional Mystery-specific Pages

The Mystery Novel Sticky Note Plotter includes all of the above plus these additional pages.

Suspect page: Biggest difference from other genres' character pages is the addition of

An example of how the character bios are slightly different in the mystery plotter compared to the other genre plotters. Instead of "main character," the mystery plotter has a page for a sleuth, a law enforcement officer, a victim, a perpetrator, and several suspects. Side character bios are also included.

Clue/red herring page: Squares for 1 7/8 x 1 7/8

Keep track of all your clues and red herrings as you write them (or have ideas to add them back in during editing). Several pages are included in the mystery plotter.