Decide What to Keep: The Cozy Fantasy Novel Workbook

You can write the tea shop. The lamplight, the regulars: the warmth comes easily. What drifts is the pull, the reason a reader keeps turning pages when there isn't a crisis in sight.

Decide What to Keep: The Cozy Fantasy Novel Workbook is a 313-page fillable novel planning system that builds cozy's engine with the same rigor its siblings spend on plot. Stakes that are tended rather than threatened, one problem that can't be mended alone, and a comfort contract the reader can trust from the first page. Every writing line is a real text field. Type into it, save, pick it back up on any device.

Inside:

• A comfort contract — how bad things are allowed to get, decided up front and held to

• A story engine that doesn't need a villain — the four-panel turn structure, where scenes run on noticing instead of conflict

• A 35-chapter outline — a two-page spread for every chapter, with a novella path for the genre's 25,000-word welcome

• A village worth staying in — the haven, the seasons, the regulars, the animal companion, and frictions who get folded in instead of defeated

• A texture ledger — food, festivals, folklore, and small institutions, so your village could never be any village

• Mastery moments — the quiet-competence beats readers stay for, placed like setpieces

• A magic ledger — what it does, what it asks, and what it can't fix

• A romance contract — the heat level and the romance's role, chosen on your terms

• A weight dial — grief and old wounds carried gently, on the page, off it, or before the story

• The hearth gate — the is-this-actually-cozy check, and the checklist that says the planning is done

• A "Stuck?" guide — for the moments most writers quit

For writers who'd rather decide than drift.

313 pages. Over 1,500 typeable fields. A tappable contents page that jumps you straight to any section.

Perfect for first-time cozy writers, novella-first writers, and anyone who's been told their quiet book needs a war.