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Scene outline

Every scene needs a goal, a conflict and a turn.

Each scene has a heading, a place, a cast, a summary, a goal, a conflict and a turn. Scenes missing any of them are flagged before you write them, which is when a flat scene is cheapest to fix.

What it does

  • Heading, place, cast, summary, goal, conflict, turn and estimated pages per scene
  • Flags scenes with no goal, no conflict, no turn, no place or no cast
  • Reorder scenes with Up / Down
  • Exports as a CSV (Export → Outline)

How to use it

  1. Scene outline → pick an episode
  2. Add scene, then fill goal / conflict / turn
  3. Fix anything flagged before drafting

Step by step

Screenshots of the app, on the sample series. Click one to see it full size.

  1. Scene outline: pick an episode, and every scene is a row with its heading, goal, conflict, turn, place and cast.
    Scene outline: pick an episode, and every scene is a row with its heading, goal, conflict, turn, place and cast.
  2. Add scene: a new scene is flagged until it has a goal, a conflict, a turn, a place and cast.
    Add scene: a new scene is flagged until it has a goal, a conflict, a turn, a place and cast.
  3. Fill goal / conflict / turn and pick a place; the flags clear one by one, so you know what's missing before you draft.
    Fill goal / conflict / turn and pick a place; the flags clear one by one, so you know what's missing before you draft.

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