Thousands of writers use StoryWeaver to build their story’s world, characters, plot, theme,
and genre.
Thousands of writers use Dramatica to find and refine their story’s structure and to find and fix holes and missteps.
- 200 Interactive Story Cards guide you from concept to completion, step by step.
- Help Buttons with Writing Tips, Example Stories, Hints, and Tricks.
- Work on multiple stories at once.
- Jot down creative notes from anywhere in StoryWeaver.
- Placeholder: Pick up writing where you left off.
- Develop multiple levels of detail for your plot and characters.
- Intuitive navigation path helps you follow your Muse.
- Works on any device: desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, Windows, Macintosh, iOs, Android & Chrome
- Patented Story Engine cross- references your dramatic choices to create a structure map.
- AI style narrative model finds holes, missteps and suggests how to fix & fill them.
- Automatically generates a timeline from your story’s structural map.
- Offers three levels of detail depending on the complexity of your story.
- Includes hundreds of examples, tips, tricks, and techniques.
- Comes with more than sixty structural maps for classic and popular novels, movies and stage plays.
Write Your Novel Or Screenplay Step By Step
How do you grow your ideas into a fully developed story with memorable characters, a riveting plot, and a compelling theme or message?
StoryWeaver will show you the way…
200 Interactive Story Cards Guide You From Concept To Completion
StoryWeaver is built around more than 200 Story Cards - each an interactive screen designed to help you develop a single dramatic element of your story. You simply read and follow the instructions on each card, enter the information requested and move on to the next card. By the time you have filled in all the cards, your story will be complete.
Build Your Story’s World As You Write
StoryWeaver was created to guide you through the entire process of developing your story’s world, who’s in it, what happens to them, and what it all means. Every step of the way you’ll know exactly what to do with specific instructions, information, insights and inspirations, with tips & tricks used by the pros. Whether you only have a basic idea of what your story is about or even none at all, StoryWeaver will lead you step by step from concept to completion.
Automatically References Your Work For Further Development
StoryWeaver will automatically reference the work you’ve done on earlier cards to help you make decisions and design story elements on each new card. And, after completing each minor section, StoryWeaver will help you fold all the elements you’ve created into a single, constantly evolving treatment containing everything you’ve developed so far.
Folds Each New Detail Into Your Evolving Story
From your very first Story Card, you always have a complete story that just gets deeper, richer, and more detailed as you go. By the time you’ve completed all 200 cards, you’ve have a completely developed treatment of your entire story - every character, every plot point, ever thematic issue, every element of your message. You’ll even have a time-line progression of every chapter or scene, and all that happens in it.
Guides You Every Step Of The Way
StoryWeaver is not for everyone, but if you’ve ever been stuck for an idea, found yourself creating the same tired characters, at a loss for what should happen next, or found that your story made sense but had no real passion, then StoryWeaver may be just the tool you need to make your novel, screenplay or stage play powerful and to get it completed.
Try It Risk Free For 90 Days
Still not sure? We offer a “no questions asked” 90 day money back guarantee. If you don’t find StoryWeaver to be the most useful writing tool you own, simply return it (or delete the downloadable version) and we’ll refund your entire purchase price.
So, you’ve got nothing to lose, and perhaps quite a bit to gain. Why not give it a try today?
Testimonials
More than 15,000 writers use StoryWeaver!
Here’s what some of them are saying...
Your software IS FANTASTIC!!!! I’m mowing my way through a story, literally unburdening my mind of all the details of the story, enabling me to focus on plot and creativity! Having Storyweaver as a tool to keep everything organized and consolidated is just a god-send. Many thanks for your brilliant creation!! =)
-- Reg Springer
StoryWeaver is UNBELIEVABLE. Wonderful. Thank you! Tell your writers it's a miracle.
-- Stefanie Stolinsky, Ph.D.
Your demo helped me more in a couple of hours that months of trying to set up my story on my own.
-- Sean Heffernan
Thank you for Story Weaver. I just purchased it today and I already have a partially developed synopsis and an outline for a novel that started with just two words. This is a simple to use, logically worked out, fully rounded program -- a must for all story writers, and at such a reasonable price.
-- Chris Degenhardt Science-Art Author Artist
All writers who succeed do so because they learn early how to fully develop their work. StoryWeaver is one of the best programs I've seen for the task. This is awesome software that covers all the elements of your story. StoryWeaver is a writer's friend. You can't do better.
-- Carl Hose – The Writer’s Inkwell
I must say, having used other types of writing software, Story Weaver is simply fantastic. I am looking forward to the completion of my first novel using Story Weaver.
-- Ronny Berndorff
Features
More than 200 Story Cards guide you through the entire story development process. Each question will open new creative avenues you've probably never considered before!
StoryWeaver Automatically references your work on previous questions so you can build on what you've already created, every step of the way!
Create chapters or scenes right in the software that lay out how your story will unfold.
Video Clips clarify every step in the story development process. Get insightful perspectives on storytelling from the creator of StoryWeaver!
Web Links bring extra depth to your story. Discover new perspectives in storytelling!
Export your work to your word processor at any point for further development.
Take creative notes from anywhere in the program and organize your existing story materials by adding your own folders, cards, and questions as you customize StoryWeaver to your personal writing style.
Work on as many stories as you like simultaneously. Each story can be saved in its own file and takes up only 50 Kilobytes on your hard drive!
Click and drag to rearrange your timeline. In fact, you can re-arrange any of your story materials with standard drag and drop.
Hundreds of tips, tricks, & techniques! Each Story Card has a wealth of eye-opening approaches to story development and storytelling.
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Main Question List
StoryWeaver has more than 200 questions that lead you step-by-step through the story development process, from initial inspiration to completed sequential treatment!
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Reference Window
Every step of the way, you build on what you have already developed, integrating simple concepts into more complex patterns as your story unfolds!
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Create Chapters or Scenes - Organize!
Create your own Folders and Cards to build your chapters or scenes, take creative notes, or organize your research materials!
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Preview/Export
At any step you can view and export all the work you've done to that point. Plus, you can print out all the questions to consider while you are away from your computer!
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StoryWeaver will still run if you do not upgrade to Catalina, and you can still purchase it below.
Consider the all-new StoryWeaver 4, which IS compatible with all versions of Mac OS including Catalina. Click for details…
