Planning
Outline Builder
Five proven frameworks for structuring novels.
The Outline Builder gives you five story structures — from Three Act and Hero's Journey to the proprietary Mastering Your Scenes Framework — as living outlines you can shape and revise.
Overview
The Outline Builder gives you five story structures — Three Act, Hero's Journey, Freytag's Pyramid, Fichtean Curve, and the proprietary Mastering Your Scenes Framework — as living outlines you can shape, revise, and connect directly to scenes.
Why writers use it
- Pick the structure that fits the story you are actually writing.
- See the whole arc while you draft individual scenes.
- Restructure without losing your work.
Key capabilities
- Five methodology-vetted frameworks
- Scene-linked outline nodes
- Full outline version history
Problems it solves
- Picking the wrong structure and rebuilding the outline from scratch.
- Outlines that live in a separate document and drift from the manuscript.
- Not seeing the whole arc while you draft an individual scene.
- Restructuring a novel and losing the notes attached to old beats.
How it fits the Mastering Your Scenes Methodology
The methodology recognizes that different stories want different shapes. The builder offers five of them and lets you move a manuscript between them without losing scene links.
Plans that include this feature
- Apprentice — not included
- Professional
- Elite