Worldbuilding and novel writing in one app

Story Builder is writing software for novelists, worldbuilders and game masters. Keep your characters, locations, maps and timeline in one place, and write your chapters beside them.

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Who it is for

Anyone writing something long enough to lose track of. Novelists and series authors. Fantasy and science fiction worldbuilders. Game masters keeping a campaign and its cast straight. Screenwriters and short story writers who want an outline and a character database in the same place as the draft. You can plan first, write first, or move between the two — nothing has to be filled in before you start.

What is in it

Characters and world records

Characters, locations, organisations, creatures and events, each with the fields you decide matter. Link any of them to any other.

A chapter editor

Write your draft chapter by chapter, with autosave, version history, word counts and goals. Read the whole manuscript in one view when you want to.

Timeline and calendar

Give your world its own eras and dates, and place events, births and battles on a timeline you can actually read.

Maps

Upload a map, or generate one, and pin your locations to it in layers. Towns can be generated too.

Relations and graph view

Record how people, places and factions connect, and see the whole web as a graph.

Notes and a brainstorm board

Private notes for the thoughts that have nowhere to go yet, and a whiteboard for ideas before they have a shape.

How it goes

Start a project

Pick a template or start empty, and turn on the parts you want — chapters, characters, maps, timeline.

Build and write

Add the world as the story asks for it, and write your chapters against it. Invite an editor or a co-writer when you want one.

Share it when it is ready

Finished stories can be published to the library for readers, on your own schedule.

Start with one chapter

Make a project and write something. Everything else can wait until the story asks for it.

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