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The Hollow Kingdom
A warden, a cold seal, and a librarian who knows too much.
📖 Novel🗡️ Fantasy
9 scenes3 chapters
edited 2 hours ago
VISUAL STORY PLANNING FOR WRITERS Where your story
Where your story
takes shape.
Plot-on turns your story into something you can see and move. Shuffle scenes on a kanban board, read them back as a manuscript, and watch every plotline arc across your whole book — plotlines, beats, characters and tags riding along with each scene.
YOUR SHELF Every book you'll ever write.
Every book you'll ever write.
One shelf.
A plot is a whole world — its own chapters, cast, threads and tags. The plots page keeps them all on one shelf: name, one-line pitch, your labels, live scene and chapter counts, and how long it's been since you last touched it. Start as many as you have ideas.
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The Lighthouse Letters
Someone in the village is writing to the dead. The dead are writing back.
📕 Novella🔍 Mystery
14 scenes5 chapters
edited yesterday
New plot
Name it, pitch it in one line, pick its labels. The sequel. The novella. The one you keep almost starting.
- Search your shelf, and sort by recent, A–Z or most scenes
- Loglines and labels, so future-you remembers the pitch
- Rename, edit details, or delete right from the card
PLOTLINES & BEATS
Start with a thread.
A plotline is a thread — the main arc, the romance, the betrayal. Give it a name, give it a color, and give it beats: the moments it can't live without. No 15-beat sheet shoved in your face on day one. Your beats, in your words, in your order.
- One color per threadPick it once. It propagates everywhere the plotline appears — scene cards, manuscript margins, filter chips, arcs.
- Beats live inside plotlinesThe romance's "All is lost" isn't the main arc's. Each thread gets its own list — drag to reorder, rename, delete.
- Assign beats to scenesPick a beat right on the scene card. It shows up on the board and above the scene in the manuscript.
BUILD IN ANY ORDER What do you build first?
What do you build first?
Dealer's choice.
Some writers cast first. Some tag every motif before a single scene exists. Plot-on has no opinion about how stories get built — so start behind whichever door you like. Reading them in any order is rather the point.
Scenes are sticky notes with depth.
The front of the card is a one-line summary — the sticky note. Inside is a full rich-text scene: what it's for, the dialogue that has to happen, the thing you're foreshadowing. Not sure where a scene goes yet? Park it in the Scenes panel until it earns a home.
Know who was in the room.
Add a character once — a name, a color, a line about who they are. Add them to the scenes they appear in and they show up as chips on the card. Later, filter the whole board to one character and see exactly when they vanish.
A flag for everything the story must remember.
Foreshadowing. Red herrings. The locket that has to matter in Chapter 19. Make a tag for anything you need to keep an eye on — give it a color and a glyph, add it to the scenes it touches, and filter the board by it any time.
THREE VIEWS · ONE STORY
One story. Three ways to see it.
Plot on a kanban board, read it back as a manuscript, or zoom out until every plotline is an arc across the whole book. Same scenes, same beats, characters and tags — the only thing that changes is how you look at them.
- Drag scenes between chapters, or drop into open space to start a new one
- Read the same scenes as a formatted manuscript, plotline colors in the margin
- Zoom out to the grid — every plotline an arc, filled nodes carry a beat
AI ASSISTANT · A SECOND PAIR OF EYES
Ask your story anything. Included with Pro & Max
Plot-on's AI reads along as you plot — every scene, character, plotline and beat. Ask where the pacing sags, which thread went quiet, or what the next scene needs, and get an answer about your story. If you like the suggestion, let it make the move.
- Private by designYour story is yours alone. No other account can read it, no model is ever trained on it, and nothing you write is shared — full stop.
- Plot-awareKnows every scene, character, plotline and beat in your project before you ask a thing — no pasting context, no explaining your own book.
- Structural readSpots pacing gaps, character absences, beat clusters and dropped threads — the questions you'd ask a sharp editor at two in the morning.
- Hands on the board — with your OKAsk it to move scenes, build chapters, or scaffold an entire beat structure. Every action shows up in the chat, and anything destructive waits for your explicit confirmation.
PRICING Priced like a notebook,
MOST POPULAR
Priced like a notebook,
not a suite.
Start free and plot your first stories end to end. Upgrade when your shelf fills up — or when you want the AI reading along.
Free
$0/ month
For your first stories.
- Up to 2 plots
- Core plotting tools — plotlines, beats, scenes, chapters, characters & tags
- Limited scenes, chapters & characters per plot
Pro
$5/ month
For the writer with a shelf.
- Up to 10 plots
- Much higher per-plot limits
- AI chat assistant (limited)
Max
$10/ month
For the world-builders.
- Unlimited plots
- Unlimited per-plot content
- AI chat assistant (unlimited)
Every plan is private by design — your story is never shared or trained on, on any tier.
GET STARTED
Your story is waiting to take shape.
Novelists, screenwriters, and a few brave short-story writers are already plotting in Plot-on. Create your account and start your first plot in the next minute — it's free to start.
Questions first? Write us at hello@plot-on.com.
BRING ANY STORY fantasymysteryromancesci-fi screenplaygraphic novelyours Genre and format are just labels on your plot card — nothing in Plot-on is gated by what you write.
THINGS PEOPLE ASK
A few quick answers.
How do I get started?
Sign up and start your first plot right away — it's free to start, no invite needed. Questions? Email hello@plot-on.com.
What does Plot-on do, in one sentence?
It turns your story into something you can see and move: scenes become cards you shuffle, plotlines become colored threads you trace across the whole book, and at any moment it all reads back as a manuscript — every beat, character and tag riding along.
What kinds of stories does it support?
All of them. Chapters, scenes, plotlines, beats, characters and tags work the same whether you're plotting a novel, a screenplay, a series or a graphic novel. The format and genre on a plot are cosmetic — labels for your shelf, not switches that change what the app does.
Does it lock me into a beat sheet?
No. You define your own beats per plot — call them whatever you want, in whatever order you want. Plot-on has no opinion about how stories should be structured.
What can the AI assistant actually do?
It reads your whole plot — every scene, plotline, beat and character — and answers structural questions about pacing, gaps and dropped threads. It can also make changes for you: move scenes, create chapters, scaffold beat structures. Anything destructive waits for your explicit confirmation.
Is Plot-on free?
There's a free plan for your first stories, plus paid plans that raise the limits and include the AI assistant.
Do I own my words?
Yes. Your manuscript is yours, and it's private — no other account can read your story, no AI model is ever trained on your prose, and nothing you write is shared with anyone.
Is there a desktop app?
Not yet. Plot-on runs in the browser today, with light and dark modes. A native app is on the roadmap.