Powerful Features to Elevate
Your Writing Process

Explore Plotrise’s robust suite of tools for character building, world creation, story plotting, and more. Designed to inspire creativity and streamline planning, these features help you craft unforgettable stories with ease and precision.

Character Building Tools

In-Depth Character Sheets

With 78 specific (but optional) questions to explore each character, you’ll soon be crafting people who leap off the page and into your readers’ hearts. 

Pop-up Help & Tips

Important questions come with their own help button, to help you make the most of exploring your character. The tips are a growing collection!

Random Generators

Some questions even come with their own random generators. Push your imagination beyond your limits with some random input! Our collection of generators is growing steadily.

World Building Tools

18 Ready Templates

Document your lore, from the tiniest flower to the tallest mountain, from small cozy towns to vast alien countries, from magic systems to technology fields.

Full Series Support

Some lore might change from story to story. We’ve got that covered, too. Split and unite answers as needed!

Powerful Index Page

Quickly locate the articles you need by text search, tag filtering, and by type. It’s always easy to see what you’ve created and what you’ve yet to create.

Timeline Tools

Track Your Events

What happened first and what came after? Use timeline events to keep track, down to a resolution of year, month, day, and even hour and minute on those super busy days.

Smart Filtering

Search your events by title text, or filter by event type and tags. Look up everyone’s birth date. See how often your armies go to war. 

Color Coded Events

Select a color for each event from a gorgeous color palette. Let your imagination run colorful! Quickly recognize events by their colors, among other key features.

Image Galleries

Upload Related Images

Give your images titles and tags in order to filter through them quickly. Add unlimited descriptions to highlight what you want to capture with each image you add.

Imagify Anything

You can attach an image (and any other item) to any of these items: Characters, World Components, Timeline Events, Scene Locations, Ideas, Stories, and other Vision Board Images.

Instant Galleries

When you connect an image to any other item, it will be displayed in that item’s card and Quick View as part of a gallery. See all related images with ease!

Scene Locations

Track Locations Continuity

Keep your locations consistent and brainstorm ideas for interesting objects and people that might be there. They’ll help you when you sit down to plan the scene card.

Connect to Scene Cards

Connect your Scene Locations with actual Scene Cards to track what happens where. Coming soon: open a Scene Location to see all the scenes that happen there.

Display in Storyboard Mode

Display scene locations in your Storyboard overview to make sure your story is going interesting places and to spare yourself embarrassing continuity errors.

Ideas

Jot Down Everything

Remember that cool idea for the third scene in act two? Write it in the Ideas section, because until you hit act two, you’ll forget all about it, and it would be a crying shame.

2,170,000 Story Ideas

Our signature “Story Idea Generator” is at your service, with over 2 million combinations. Stuck? Hit “Generate” for some inspiration.

Link to Anything

Connect your idea to any other Item to quickly view it from there. Record ideas about characters, locations, events, world components, and more. Connected assets are easily viewed together.

Plotting Tools

Story Components

Each story consists of a plot, optional subplots, an unlimited number of acts (we recommend 4), and scene cards. They come together in the Storyboard to give you a birds-eye view of the story. 

3 Plotting Methods

Add subplots, acts, and scene cards with Free Form, or go for step-by-step guided creation with the Fractal method. Coming soon: the 4-Act Structure method!

Revolutionary Act Structure

With the help of the 4-Act Structure, every act can be broken down into 4 sections that are the same  across all acts. Explore each section and its role (see the Help & Tips buttons).

Detailed Scene Cards

A scene is more than its blow-by-blow summary. A lot of thought goes into making epic scenes. We’ve put together all the tools you need to make your scenes epic, too. 

Special Tools

Dark Mode

Why ruin your eyes when you can embrace the soothing darkness of Dark Mode? We have cookies! Of the good kind!

Mentions

What if you want to change the name of a character or town halfway through the story? No worries. With the Mentions module, you can invoke other items and keep their names synchronized everywhere. Just type “@” and start typing the current name.

Series Control

Does your hero wear their auburn hair short in Book 1 and long and magenta in Book 2? No problem. Split answers between stories as necessary, or answer for all stories as one. Minimum effort, maximum flexibility. 

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