Plot your novel with confidence.
Map your chapters, shape your scenes, and find the structure that makes the whole thing hold together before you write a word.
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Chapter by chapter. Scene by scene.
Start with what you know and build outward. Add chapters, drop in scenes, write as much or as little as each one needs. The Plotter has no opinions about how complete your outline should be.
- Map your story chapter by chapter, scene by scene
- Add summaries, notes, and scene goals at any level of detail
- Apply structure templates or simply use the free form editor
Move things until the story works.
Seeing your whole novel laid out changes how you think about it. Plot holes announce themselves. The thin middle becomes obvious. Drag chapters into a new order, move scenes between chapters, and restructure as many times as the story demands.
- Drag and drop chapters and scenes into any order
- Board view for a visual overview of the whole manuscript
- Nothing is committed until the writing is
Nothing left dangling.
The Timeline lays your narrative threads out for you to see. Seed a thread. Develop it. Resolve it. See at a glance what's paid off and what's still hanging.
- Track subplots, arcs, Chekhov's guns, and relationships across chapters
- Tag each card: Seed, Develop, Complication, or Payoff
- Visual thread lines show what's resolved and what isn't
- Catch dangling threads before your readers do
Three-Act
Setup, confrontation, resolution. The framework that underpins most commercial fiction.
Save the Cat
Blake Snyder's fifteen beats, laid out so you can see exactly where your story hits each one.
Four-Act
Two distinct middle acts — a natural fit for longer novels that need more room to breathe.
Freeform
No template. Just chapters and scenes, shaped however your story demands.
Hero's Journey
The twelve-stage monomyth for writers working in mythic or quest-driven narratives.
Plan as much as you need
A loose skeleton or a scene-by-scene map. The level of detail is always yours to choose.
Plan here. Write there.
Import your chapter and scene notes into the Pad. Your outline is right there, not in another tab, not something you have to go looking for.
- Scene notes appear automatically in the Pad as you write
- No tab switching, no copy-pasting, no breaking the session
- Update your outline from the editor as the story changes