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A5 Manuscript Planner standing closed, true-black band cover with a library-shelf motif reversed out in white, about three and a half millimetres thick.

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Manuscript Planner

Eight project pages for planning a manuscript from draft to submission, eight habit pages for the writing routine, eight reflection pages, and twenty-three ruled for everything else.

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from Rp 56.000

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Specification

Type
Planner
Trim
148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages
60
Leaves
30
Sheets
15
Signatures
3 × 20pp
Spine
3.43 mm
Paper
white
Ruling
lined
Rows per page
18
Dating
Undated

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A manuscript rarely has one draft. It has a folder of them, each saved under a slightly different name, and by the third revision nobody remembers which version fixed the pacing problem in chapter four. Eight project pages hold one manuscript's plan across the whole arc: structure, word count, what still needs fixing and in which draft it got fixed.

Eight habit pages track the writing routine itself, whatever it turns out to be, kept apart from the manuscript's own structure. Eight reflection pages follow for looking back at a stretch of writing once there is enough of it to say something true about.

Research notes, a line of dialogue overheard somewhere, whatever does not belong in either section yet, go in twenty-three ruled pages at the back. The book gives no editorial advice. It holds the plan and the routine; the writing itself is the part nobody else can do.

What is inside

Project
8pp
One manuscript's structure and word count, tracked across drafts instead of scattered file names.
Habit
8pp
The writing routine, kept apart from the manuscript's own structure.
Reflection
8pp
Looking back at a stretch of writing once there is enough of it to judge.
Notes
23pp
Research, overheard lines, whatever does not belong in either section yet.
Reference
13pp
Owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two sources.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

How to use it
One page describing this book, not a different one.
This book belongs to
One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details
Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers
Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this
A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map
Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables
Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf
The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from the Manuscript Planner laid out as cards: a project page, a habit page, a section divider, a lined notes page, and a reference table page.
Five pages taken from the print file: a project page, a habit page, a divider, a lined notes page, and a page from the reference block. The project page is the record: structure and word count tracked against a plan, rather than reconstructed later from a dozen saved drafts.
Specification card listing the Manuscript Planner contents: 8 project pages, 8 habit pages, 8 reflection pages, 23 notes pages, 60 pages total, A5 trim, three signatures of twenty.
8 project pages, 8 habit pages, 8 reflection pages, 23 lined notes pages at 9.17 mm. Thirteen pages of furniture: owner details, unit conversions computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two sources. 60 pages total, A5, three sewn signatures of twenty.
Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Manuscript Planner
Conversion tables
Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Manuscript Planner
Emergency numbers
One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Manuscript Planner
This book belongs to
A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Manuscript Planner
Point at this
Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Manuscript Planner
World map

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Questions

What goes on a project page?

One manuscript's structure and word count, tracked across drafts rather than scattered file names.

How big is it?

A5, 148 x 210 mm, 60 pages, 3.43 mm across the spine.

Is it dated?

No. It starts on whichever draft you are working on and does not expire between projects.

Does it give writing or editing advice?

No. It holds the plan and the routine around the writing. The writing itself is not something a printed page can do for you.

What are the habit pages for?

The writing routine, tracked separately from the manuscript's own structure and word count.

Like all youthful efforts, his first designs were crude.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help, 1859

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