Every part of a novel, on one desk.
Plot, characters, threads, and the manuscript itself — plus a docx export that’s already typeset, and a place to read every note your beta readers ever sent you.
Act II · Rising action
Acts, beats, and the bones underneath.
Lay out the architecture of your novel in a single, scrollable view. Mark beats as rising, midpoint, or climax. Pin a beat to a scene when you’re ready to write it — and watch the table of contents light up.
- Reorder by drag, not by rewriting
- Bind beats to scenes and POV characters
- Custom beat types for the way you think
Threads
Sanderson knew, all along
The novel is a series of promises, marching towards their payoff. As writers, we all know how difficult it is to keep track of them, especially if it’s stored somewhere in ‘james_has_the_key.txt’ on your desktop. Happened to us. Happens to you. Not in Storystruct.
- Tag, classify, and link threads to scenes
- See at a glance which promises are still open
- Refactor a thread without losing its history
Docx export · The Salt-Crowned · Ch. 04
A typeset manuscript, not a Word soup.
Export a chapter to .docx that’s already typeset — page size, margins, body and heading fonts, line spacing, page numbers, even language-aware hyphenation. Open it in Word, send it to an agent, print it. It looks like a book draft, not a dump.
- Per-chapter or per-manuscript export
- Honours your Story DNA: em-dashes, numerals, italics, scene breaks
- Auto-hyphenation by language (EN, NL, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT)
Imogen stood at the rail, watching the long boat come in. and Halvor, who had been quiet all evening, set his cup down with a thin crack She had counted the oar-strokes since the headland, the way her father had taught her.
He did not look at her.
He could not.
That was the old answer, and it had served him badly for a long time.
“You are not welcome on this island,” she said. It was, she thought, the first true thing she had said in a week.
The notes live where the prose lives.
Send a chapter to your beta readers. They send back a Word document full of track changes and comments — or a Markdown file, if that’s how they roll. Upload it against the chapter in Storystruct. We parse it in our backend, diff it against a snapshot of the prose, and show you the result: insertions, deletions, and emphasis added by the reviewer, with their comments anchored to the exact words they refer to.
The diff is stored as a review, so the same feedback can be read again, in the same place, long after you’ve rewritten the chapter underneath it.
- .docx with track changes & Word comments, or .md
- Insertions, deletions, and added emphasis — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, highlight
- Reviewer comments anchored to the text they comment on, with author & date
- Replayed unchanged after the chapter is rewritten — the snapshot is preserved
It’s easier to see it than to read about it.
Open a story, lay out three beats, and feel the workspace. No setup, no template wizard.