Phase 02 · What Are You Creating?
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All 17 KDP-formatted Word templates — page size, margins, and front matter already set up — are listed in the Templates section below. Download the trim that fits your novel or screenplay, then use the planner to map it out.

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Step 1 — Select Your Genre
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Literary Fiction
Character-driven, thematic depth, psychological complexity. Booker and Pulitzer territory.
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Thriller & Suspense
High stakes, relentless pace, a protagonist matched against an overwhelming threat.
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Mystery
A crime, a detective, a trail of red herrings, leading to a revelation only in retrospect inevitable.
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy
World-building at scale. Technology, magic, and the human condition under extraordinary pressure.
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Historical Fiction
Personal stakes intertwined with the forces of history. Research and imagination in equal measure.
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Romance
Two characters, one irresistible connection, and all the obstacles standing between them and an HEA.
Step 2 — Your Book Details (select a genre above — it shapes your outline)
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Industry-Standard Screenplay Format
  • Page size: US Letter (8.5″ × 11″)
  • Font: Courier Final Draft 12pt
  • Margins: 1.5″ left · 1″ right · 1″ top/bottom
  • Rule of thumb: 1 page ≈ 1 minute of screen time
  • Feature film: 90–120 pages typical
  • One-hour pilot: 45–65 pages
  • Half-hour pilot: 25–35 pages
  • Slug lines: INT./EXT. LOCATION — DAY/NIGHT
Step 1 — Choose Your Structure
Three-Act Structure
The classical model. Setup → Confrontation → Resolution. Act breaks at pages ~25 and ~85. The foundation every other method builds on.
Save the Cat
Blake Snyder’s 15-beat method. Page-precise, industry-tested, widely used in studio development. Excellent for commercial and genre work.
Hero’s Journey
Joseph Campbell’s 12 stages. The myth-structure underlying Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, and thousands of years of storytelling.
Step 2 — Script Details
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Step 1 — Choose Your Length
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Flash Fiction
Under 1,000 words. One scene, one revelation, one gut punch. Every word earns its place.
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Short Story
1,000–7,500 words. A single arc, compressed. The form of Carver, O’Connor, and Chekhov.
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Novelette
7,500–17,500 words. Room for a subplot and a secondary character. Hugo Award territory.
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Novella
17,500–40,000 words. A novel’s emotional scope, a short story’s precision. Of Mice and Men. The Old Man and the Sea.
Step 2 — Your Story Details
Step 1 — Choose Your Form
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Free Verse
No fixed meter or rhyme. Structure emerges from the poem’s own logic. The dominant form of contemporary poetry.
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Sonnet
14 lines, iambic pentameter. Shakespearean (three quatrains + couplet) or Petrarchan (octave + sestet).
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Haiku
Three lines: 5-7-5 syllables. A moment in nature, a sudden awareness. Rooted in Japanese tradition.
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Villanelle
19 lines, two repeating refrains. Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle.” Obsessive, circular, hypnotic.
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Ballad
Narrative poem in quatrains, often ABAB or ABCB rhyme. Folk tradition. Tells a story, often with a refrain.
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Ode
A lyric in praise of a subject. Keats’s odes, Neruda’s elemental odes. Elevated diction, extended meditation.
Step 2 — Your Poem Details
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Official KDP-formatted Word document templates with correct page size, margins, and front matter. Download the template that matches your chosen trim size and begin writing in a file that is already set up for publication.

Trim Size Centimeters Best For Download
5" × 8"12.7 × 20.32 cmFiction, novellas↓ Download
5.06" × 7.81"12.85 × 19.84 cmMass market paperback↓ Download
5.25" × 8"13.34 × 20.32 cmFiction, short nonfiction↓ Download
5.5" × 8.5" ★13.97 × 21.59 cmMost common nonfiction↓ Download
6" × 9" ★15.24 × 22.86 cmStandard trade paperback↓ Download
6.14" × 9.21"15.6 × 23.39 cmUS trade nonfiction↓ Download
6.69" × 9.61"16.99 × 24.4 cmAcademic, professional↓ Download
7" × 10"17.78 × 25.4 cmTextbooks, workbooks↓ Download
7.44" × 9.69"18.9 × 24.61 cmLarge trade nonfiction↓ Download
7.5" × 9.25"19.05 × 23.5 cmReference, professional↓ Download
8" × 10"20.32 × 25.4 cmIllustrated nonfiction↓ Download
8.25" × 6"20.96 × 15.24 cmLandscape format↓ Download
8.25" × 8.25"20.96 × 20.96 cmSquare format, cookbooks↓ Download
8.25" × 11"20.96 × 27.94 cmWorkbooks, manuals↓ Download
8.5" × 8.5"21.59 × 21.59 cmSquare large format↓ Download
8.5" × 11"21.59 × 27.94 cmAcademic papers, reports↓ Download
8.27" × 11.69"21 × 29.7 cmA4 international↓ Download

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