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For stories that span a lifetime

Untangle
your storymemoir

Pin your characters, events and places to a corkboard, tie them together with string, and watch forty years of plot fall into order. Storyline Plotter tells you what's missing, and then hands you the first draft.

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Free membership. No card needed. Works on your iPad, phone and computer.
Made forNovelsScreenplaysStage playsTV seriesFamily historiesMemoirsGame worlds
Everything on one wall

The way writers have always plotted, without the drawing pins.

Cards

Pin it all up

A card for every character, event, place and stray idea. Add a photo of the landscape, a link to the song on the radio that night, and as many notes as you need.

String

Tie it together

Drag a pin from one card to another. Parent of, friend of, leads to: the connections are drawn right on the wall, so you can see who's tangled up with whom.

Timeline

See the decades

Every character gets a lifeline, and every event lands in its year. Ages are worked out for you, from 1944 to 1999 and beyond.

What's missing?

Catch the plot holes

Someone in two places at once. A father younger than his son. Twelve years where nothing happens. Find out before your readers do.

Go

Press Go

Everything on your wall, written out in date order as one long story you can copy into your writing app and start fleshing out.

AI assistant

An editor on call

Ask the AI assistant for a closer read of your wall, or have it turn your cards into a first prose draft. Free daily allowance on every account.

How it works

From a tangle to a draft in three steps.

Pin your cards

Start with one person. Add who they love, where they live and what happens to them.

Put it in order

Give events a year, a month or an exact day. Drag cards around until the story makes sense.

Press Go

Get the whole story start to finish, then write it your way.

Membership is free.
Your story isn't going to plot itself.

Make a free account and start pinning tonight. Cards, string, the timeline, What's missing? and the Go button are all included, with no card details and no trial clock.

Want your walls kept for good, with automatic backups? That's full membership.

More to come

This is just the first draft.

Storyline Plotter is growing. Here's some of what we're working on next.

  • Scripts and scenesScene cards, acts and beats for screenwriters and playwrights.
  • PDF export to share with collaboratorsTurn your whole wall into a clean PDF you can email to a co-writer, editor or producer.
  • More ways outSend your draft straight to the tools you already write in.
  • And moreTell us what your story needs.