Writing HQ Premium Template [Updated 2025]

😌 All your writing project materials, fully connected and in perfect harmony

What’s inside:

• 💼 Project tracker — Manage as many writing projects as you can handle with the powerful Projects DB. Start tracking up to 3 projects right away!
• 🧮 Word count tracker — Track your writing sessions, including total words written, total time, and more. Fully integrated with a stats database.
• 👥 Characters — Create, develop, and track all your characters across all your projects.
• 📖 Chapters — Break your larger projects down into chunks or sections in the Chapters DB.
• 🎬 Scenes — Sketch out individual scenes or pieces of your projects in the Scenes DB.
• 🔬 Research — Store, categorize, and organize all your project research, from online articles to newspaper clippings. Group your research items together by area to centralize all related items in one place.
• 🤲 Self-care — Uplift yourself on difficult writing days with 50+ affirmations, plus space for your reviews, testimonials, and writing goals. You’ll also find a bonus writing exercise!
• 🪪 Public bio & portfolio — Write your author bio, add published work to your portfolio database, then share it with the world! Includes a private space for drafting, plus a public template with instructions for publishing and sharing your portfolio.

💨 Manage all your writing projects, sessions, and more — with 1 click

Powerful features like automated buttons and linked database views let you add new items to Notion without breaking your flow or focus. You’ll find all the buttons you need already set up for you, plus instructions for editing them, or creating your own!

📑 See stats across all your writing projects — no formula knowledge needed

The souped-up Stats database is a free alternative to Notion’s charts that lets you track all sorts of metrics, both across all your projects as well as per project.

Stats cards already added to your project dashboards will update automatically. Easy setup and maintenance instructions included!

🧠 Stay focused with accessible, neurodivergent-friendly design

Built by a neurodivergent creator, this template is designed to prevent distractions while keeping all your materials within easy reach.

🗂️ Expandable directories: Your project materials are the main focus of every page. The extra bits, like your page links and buttons, are neatly hidden in toggle blocks. You can show or hide these by simply toggling them, which helps you focus on what matters most: your work. If you’d prefer to keep everything permanently visible? Simply remove the toggles with a stroke of your keyboard! Instructions included in the template.

🔗 Synced navigation bar: The synced navigation bar at the top of every page in the template makes it easy to move around. It’s also super easy to customize — whatever changes you make to 1 synced block will appear in all of them, saving you tons of time!

📱 Mobile-friendly for updates on the go

Quickly capture new project ideas, characters, portfolio items, and more right from your phone!

The Mobile Dashboard includes 1-click buttons and quick links to all your Writing HQ pages. Add a shortcut to your device’s home screen for easy access.

⚡️ Interactive, guided, lightning-fast setup

The Setup Guide lets you set up your dashboards and databases from one convenient place. This step-by-step walkthrough is comprehensive yet easy to follow. Once you finish setting up, you can delete the page and start using your template right away!

*Please note the setup is designed to be completed from a desktop. Once setup is complete, your template will work across all your devices!

Something missing from the setup guide? Want to report an error? Contact me at hello@melleesmith.com.

🎨 Full template wiki & customization guide

Customization ideas, tips, and tricks to make your template work better for you. The Customization & Maintenance Guide includes helpful information about your core databases, plus advice for editing and maintaining your databases and pages in the future.

Also includes general Notion tips, plus my personal favorite blocks and keyboard shortcuts!

🛠️ Want a customized Writing HQ for a team or organization?

Reach out to Mel at hello@melleesmith.com to learn more about her consulting rates and availability!