Use case · Novelists
Many characters, many threads, one book.
A novel is a machine for keeping promises across four hundred pages. Author keeps the promises in view.
Main plot
Ilse's arc
The letters
The storm
✎The letters go quiet between chapters 5 and 8.
plot, arcs, mystery, weather: ten kinds of strand
A rhythm that works.
Plan the shape
Apply an outline template, or draw your own strands. See the beats against chapters.
Write, and mark the turns
After a scene, add the events in it that change someone: where they go, what they learn.
Ask before you draft
Before writing chapter nine, ask what your protagonist knows and where she is.
Run the checks
Fix real problems, dismiss intended ones, and save a version.
What you get, concretely.
State on demand
Location, injuries, knowledge and relations at any moment.
Rules that read the book
Bilocation, travel, the dead, knowledge, weather and more.
A timeline you can zoom
From the book to five minutes.