Over the weekend I met the son of one member of my team working on a religious project. The son is 13 I believe, and has written and published a fantasy book which is EXCELLENT (Kunja Rindie and the Diamond Trident by Silas Hart), and has 6 books already plotted out. I want to make a book for him to document his journey as an author (I’m into bookbinding).
So, I’m looking for pdfs of forms that an author would use, like checklists, submittals to publishing companies, etc. Are there any that out there in public domain, creative license, etc? I might end up making my own forms based on what’ve read from “how to be a writer” books but I wanted to save some time if I can.
A laudable idea for encouraging the young man in his writing.
However, I have to wonder if assembling such material into a (hand-bound) book wouldn’t rather prescribe a journey rather than help him chronicle one. You could hardly know what forms he might need and in what sort of order. Many things you might collect may simply not suit him. And for any form that is to actually be sent somewhere, would someone hand fill a form in the book in addition to typing the real thing up for sending?
Perhaps a hand-bound edition of his first novel would be the sweeter gift and also a meaningful encouragement.
This is a great idea. You can find free worksheets (NaNoWriMo, some writing blogs), but most are pretty basic. Honestly, you’ll save time just by making your own character sheets, a chapter tracker, and maybe a simple revision checklist. I’d skip most publishing forms for now; they’re a bit advanced.
At that stage in my journey, the best gift a bookbinder could have given me would have been a set of custom-bound journals with nice paper. Maybe with cover art and endpapers inspired by the book?