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.
Strategize 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
Toss the red string and messy corkboard! Keep your virtual sticky notes and stream-of-consciousness plot ideas safe in the Research Module where they’ll always be a click away.
Start Writing Instantly With Templates
Go from a blank page to The End with ease. Choose from select 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.
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 the Gantt chart and event card views. 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-Bending Calendar Features
Eras
Add fictional decades to fill a century or eras for every eon, whether they clock time backward or forwards.
Months
Create calendar months unique to your story as a foundation—even intercalary months (and days)!
Weeks
From Tirdas to Fourth Day to dies Saturni, the possibilities for custom days and weeks are endless.
Moons
Hang as many moons as you want in your fictional sky—color code them and track their phases, too!
Seasons
Accurately follow the changing seasons with custom seasonal periods as short or long as you need.
Observance Filters
Tailor events even more by applying advanced filters so they fall exactly on the days you want them to.
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
Capture every A-ha! moment by linking your research to your other story elements and chapter notes, and never lose a sinuous train of thought again.
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.
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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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What Our Community is Saying
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.
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 [element] Lists help keep me organized when working on each new project.
Campfire is simply the best tool for all writers looking to better organize, plot, collaborate and create. I don't know where I'd be if it wasn't for Campfire!
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