Plan

The book, from ten thousand feet.

Four ways to see a story before and while you write it.

Corkboard & outline

Organized like a studio, not a folder of drafts.

A binder holds the Book, its Bible, and your Research. Switch between corkboard and outline; group chapters into parts and acts; drag a scene and the files on disk follow.

  • Corkboard with index cards
  • Outline with status & POV columns
  • Parts and acts, with part title pages
Quill's corkboard with chapter index cards, in the Manuscript theme.
Quill's brainstorm canvas — the Sherlock Holmes cast as portrait cards joined by labelled connections, beside a sticky note.

Brainstorm canvas

Think on a wall, keep what sticks.

A free canvas of cards — characters, places, scraps of idea — joined by named connections (“travels to,” “harbors”) and marked with pins when something matters.

  • Entity cards with portraits
  • Typed connections between cards
  • Pins in nine colors — plus a pair that follows your theme

Guided brainstorm

From a vague idea to a filed one.

A guided session walks you from “what if…” through question packs to actual story material — bible stubs and a canvas you can keep working.

  • Question packs that adapt as you answer
  • Ends in bible entries, not a chat log
  • Skip it entirely — the free canvas is always there
Quill's guided brainstorm session mid-flow, working through a question pack.
Quill's plot board — the chapter spine on one axis and story threads on the other.

Plot board

Every thread, across every chapter.

A board with your chapter spine on one axis and your story's threads on the other — see where a thread goes quiet, where an obligation is left hanging, where two arcs collide.

  • Chapter spine × thread lanes
  • Obligation lanes for setups owed a payoff
  • Reads at a glance, edits in place

Promises ledger

A story keeps its promises. This is where they're kept.

Every setup you plant is a promise to the reader. The ledger tracks each one through its life — open, kept, or broken — so nothing you planted in chapter two dies forgotten in chapter thirty.

  • Lifecycle beads per promise
  • Open / kept / broken verdicts
  • Linked straight to the chapters that pay them off
Quill's promises ledger, tracking setups as open, kept, or broken.
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Sit in it for 30 days.

The trial is 30 days of actual use — days you don't write don't count. Buy once; every 1.x update is included.

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