Decide What to Keep: The Romance Novel Workbook

The ending is a promise. The middle is the pursuit.

Decide What to Keep: The Romance Novel Workbook is a 298-page fillable novel planning system that has you build that obstacle honestly, choose the ending before you draft, and carry both all the way to a scene-by-scene outline. Every writing line is a real text field. Type into it, save, pick it back up on any device.

Inside:

• A 40-chapter outline — a two-page spread for every chapter, tracking every step closer and apart

• The romance contract — what the page shows, what the ending promises, and the shape of that ending chosen up front

• Character profiles — a protagonist and love interest who make sense apart and feel inevitable together, plus antagonists and secondary cast, each with an image frame

• A heat map and touch barriers — intimacy milestones on your terms, with consent that raises the heat instead of pausing it

• The dark moment, measured — when the book goes dark, the break that earns it, and the grovel, all built instead of improvised

• The structure that forbids the match — the world around the couple, and the distance it puts between them

• Eight romance beats and series planning — the arc of one book, and the arc across a series

• Two gates — one puts the couple and the world under pressure, one tells you when to stop planning and start drafting

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

For writers who'd rather decide than drift.

298 pages. Over 1,400 typeable fields. A tappable contents page that jumps you straight to any section.

Perfect for first-time romance novelists, category and indie romance writers, and anyone whose middles keep going soft.