Versatile Story-Planning Tools
From expansive narrative timelines to sweeping fictional calendars, Campfire’s story planning and plotting software can help you outline a book for the ages.
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Personalize Your Plotting Process
No matter how you like to plot or pants, Campfire offers a range of book outlining tools that adapt to you.
Plot Structure, Not Loose Threads
The Timeline Module’s customizable canvas lets you create and arrange card panels in a free-form space. With section dividers and labels, outline the plot structure that works for you.
Outline Epic Twists in Every Era
Create a custom calendar in the Calendar Module and link it to your timeline for a different perspective on your story beats—and ensure that your characters play their role on schedule.
Organize a Plan for Chaotic Good
No more red string and messy corkboards! Keep your virtual sticky notes and late-night plot ideas safe in the Research Module, where they’ll always be one click away.
See Your Story from a New Angle
Prefer to plot with a corkboard-style canvas? The Manuscript Module’s Index Card View lets you create, edit, and track the progress of all your chapters at once.
Draft Faster With Free Plot Templates
Going from a blank page to The End doesn’t have to be hard! Find free plot templates based on popular story structures in the Timeline Module, and start getting words on the page right away.
3 Act Structure
A classic three-pillar approach to structuring a novel dating as far back as Aristotle’s time.
7 Point Structure
A simple seven-beat framework found in stories across every genre.
27 Chapter Method
An advanced, yet highly tangible riff on the age-old three-act structure.
Fichtean Curve
A useful outline for adrenaline-fueled action & adventure stories.
Heroine’s Journey
A 10-step story structure that emphasizes self-reflection and growth.
Hero’s Journey
The famous framework for writing epic tales with larger-than-life-heroes.
Romancing the Beat
A four-act, 20-beat template for romances readers will fall in love with.
STC Story Beat Sheet
Save the Cat!s hugely popular 15-beat plot sheet for crafting cinematic stories.
Story Circle
A plot circle made of eight steps with an emphasis on character development.
Story Grid
The basic elements of plot as outlined by the Story Grid methodology.
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Make Good Time on Writing Your Book
Think outside the literary sandbox and upgrade from the rank of mere plotter. The Timeline and Calendar Modules also function as instruments for twisting time to fit your story’s master plan.
Interactive Timeline Creator
Take the Timeline Module to the next level with event card views, allowing you to nest notes within your timeline cards. Visualize vast expanses of time in your story from the highest level to the tiniest detail.
Fantasy Calendar Creator
Just like timelines, the Calendar Module is multipurpose. Keep the wheel of time turning smoothly with a fictional calendar (or several), and track custom eras, months, weeks, moons, and seasonal periods in your setting!
Time to Close All Those Browser Tabs!
Import your story planning notes and (not at all questionable) internet research into one, organized place that won’t get lost in the annals of your browser history.
Save Multimedia Research
Keep webpage links, videos, PDFs, text, and images in the place it matters most—close at hand in your digital binder.
Connect All the Dots
Keep your plans and outlines cohesive, and capture every A-ha! moment by linking your research to other story elements and chapter notes.
Zoom Out for a Bird’s Eye View
Create multiple chapters at once, check when something was last edited, and switch between card and list views to get a better pulse on your story’s outline.
Plan & Organize Better
Manage your chapters as index-style cards on a digital corkboard using the Manuscript Module’s Index Card View. Easily drag-and-drop to rearrange them when the plan changes course!
Stay On Top of Your Progress
Set word count goals, bask in your stats, and add custom progress statuses to keep you accountable and help you hit your deadlines.
Eighteen Modules
Campfire is made up of modules designed to help you plan, plot, and publish everything from your novel and character sheets to story outlines and interactive maps.
Customize Everything
Campfire modules are built on panels that you can move, resize, and modify to fit various information or images for your story. Try two of them below!
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by J. Anne Riten
The World of Heresy Within
by Rob J. Hayes
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by Ingrid Moon
Faerie Fruit
by Charlotte E. English
Keeper's Reign
by Eliza Leone
The Lord of Crows
by J. Anne Riten
The World of Heresy Within
by Rob J. Hayes
The Handler's Gambit
by Ingrid Moon
Faerie Fruit
by Charlotte E. English
Keeper's Reign
by Eliza Leone
The Lord of Crows
by J. Anne Riten
The World of Heresy Within
by Rob J. Hayes
The Handler's Gambit
by Ingrid Moon
Faerie Fruit
by Charlotte E. English
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by Eliza Leone
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by J. Anne Riten
The World of Heresy Within
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The Handler's Gambit
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Campfire has improved my writing by giving me somewhere to organize all my thoughts into a coherent storyline. It really makes it so much easier to write without making storyline mistakes or having plot holes.
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Campfire [is] a fantastic platform… As a writing coach, I've written dozens of outlines for fiction stories using [Campfire]. The functionality for things like List [panels] helps keep me organized when working on each new project.
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