Why I buy this one ?
- New language features like Term Swaps and Impulsive Responses, plus many more
- Create your own unique scenes and illustrate your story points with character arc, theme, conflict, tension and plot points
- In-depth breakdowns of over 60 films, novels, plays, and short stories offer guidance and inspiration
- StoryGuide Paths take writers step-by-step through the writing process, from initial idea to finished treatment
- New structure templates enhance the writing experience by giving practical suggestions

What our customer's say!

"Author input", This program is full of ideas for the novice writer. Continuity weakened as the story progressed. Any aspiring author can learn from this approach to the development of a story. TAA

"Extremely useful if plotting a long fiction is your problem.", First for Mac users: I installed this on a Mac running OS X 10.3. It asked me which version of OS X I was running and offered 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4 as options. I selected 10.3 and it went through a preliminary install. Then it asked for the serial number on the card which came with the software. (If you are as compulsive about throwing away clutter as I am, try to restrain yourself and save that card! Otherwise, I don't think the program will turn on.) After I did this and provided the usual registration stuff, it got online (I should mention I was installing in an administrator mode)and had a chat with the company. Everything went very well. This program is native for the Mac OS X and doesn't require Mac Classic or anything like that. Thanks, guys, for making such a neat piece of software that also runs on Macs!

OK, now about using the program. I am the sort of person who gets a great idea and sits down at her computer and just starts going. Things go wonderfully for about five chapters, and then I run out of steam because I just haven't thought enough about where things are going, and it's getting hard to keep everything straight.

This program is like sitting down with a no-nonsense writing teacher who asks detailed questions about characters, motivations, goals, and so on and gives you feedback on whether or not you have enough information for a workable plot stucture and what's missing. (You are free, of course, to ignore its advice.)

The most difficult part about using this program is that the designers have invented a lot of terminology that you have to understand to use the program properly. (There is a PDF file on the disk containing a 300-plus page book that explains the theory and vocabulary in detail. I strongly recommend you read it first! Once you have that, the software is quite user-friendly.)

What I found especially helpful in the software were the dozens of examples of well-known stories that the authors had analyzed in terms of their model of plot design. That model(this is oversimplified) is the idea that a story is like a mind trying to solve a problem and that different characters are like aspects of that mind at work.

If you put in the work -- and it is a LOT of work -- at the end you will have a detailed plot outline which can be printed out.

If you can write novel-length fiction on pure inspiration, you will probably hate this. If you have good ideas, but find yourself lost in the woods and hoping for a rescue party after about fifty pages, this can be a lifesaver. You get out of it as much as you put into it.