Writing Outliner

Writing Outliner: Organize Your Ideas

Writing Outliner is a software tool to help authors organize and structure their ideas when writing books, stories, scripts, or other long-form content. It allows for outlining story arcs, plot points, characters, scenes, and more in a visual hierarchy to maintain oversight of the narrative flow.

What is Writing Outliner?

Writing Outliner is software designed specifically for authors to visually outline and organize story ideas, plot points, characters, scenes, and narrative flow when writing long-form fiction or non-fiction manuscripts like books, novellas, scripts, etc.

Key features include:

• Intuitive outlining interface to break a story down into acts, sequences, scenes, beats etc. in a hierarchical tree structure
• Tools for building character profiles and arcs integrated with the storyline
• Scrivener integration to easily export an outline draft from the software into a writing project
• Index card view for scenes to reorder or restructure the story flow
• Version history and drafts to experiment with variations on the story
• Full-screen focus mode for distraction-free brainstorming and organizing
• Cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Writers can use Writing Outliner for structuring narrative fiction like novels or short stories, or even for non-fiction books. It facilitates organizing ideas visually at a high level before drilling down into the details of writing the actual manuscript. This saves time and prevents writer's block when drafted a long-form project.

Writing Outliner Features

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