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Hundreds of Prompts
The Storyometer contains an ever–growing resource of questions proven to lead writers towards fully-realized Characters and well-crafted Plots.
The Storyometer contains an ever–growing resource of questions proven to lead writers towards fully-realized Characters and well-crafted Plots.
Thousands of Ideas
In addition to its questions, this pocket muse features a seemingly bottomless well of sample answers to its prompts – ideas that can be easily selected and edited.
In addition to its questions, this pocket muse features a seemingly bottomless well of sample answers to its prompts – ideas that can be easily selected and edited.
Customized Characters
You can choose to have variables in the Storyometer's selectable ideas automatically swapped out for your own story's Character names!
You can choose to have variables in the Storyometer's selectable ideas automatically swapped out for your own story's Character names!
Auto Generation
For writers and improv actors, the Storyometer can automatically pick from its treasure trove of ideas with a quick button tap.
For writers and improv actors, the Storyometer can automatically pick from its treasure trove of ideas with a quick button tap.
Organized Notes
Create as many projects as you want within the Storyometer, each with multiple note pages that can be organized under various helpful categories.
Create as many projects as you want within the Storyometer, each with multiple note pages that can be organized under various helpful categories.
Outline Export
To share your categorized notes or use them with your main creative writing software, you can quickly email the notes as a formatted outline.
To share your categorized notes or use them with your main creative writing software, you can quickly email the notes as a formatted outline.
Find a Source
Starting with a blank page? In the Ideas Menu – the heart of the Storyometer – you can brainstorm sources for your Characters and/or Concepts.
Develop the Details
"What Does the Protagonist Want?" is just the beginning. Go here for many more prompts and suggestions that will help you flesh out both your Characters and nascent Plots.
What Happens?
Brainstorm your plot here, where you'll find ideas for Actions, Events, and Dialogue, including sub-sections for Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi, and more.
Hook the Audience
Advanced writers can go here to check out strategies and techniques for creating Mystery, Suspesne, Tension, Surprise, Revelations, Uncertainty, Heightening, Symp
How is the Story Told?
Here, you get to explore framing devices, points of view, time manipulation, narration, exposition tactics, pacing, description style, voice and tone, and other options that will determine how your story is told.
More Questions to Consider...
This part of the Storyometer harbors miscellaneous advice, do’s and dont’s, and other tips. As with everything in the app, we'’ll keep updating the content as long as the Storyometer lives!
Reviews of the Storyometer
A useful and thoughtful storytelling tool.Cheryl Klein (Scholastic book editor)
...the perfect writer's tool for jumpstarting a story, improving a scene, or enhancing a character arc.Jason Ginsburg (Sci-Fi Screenwriter)
What's great about the Storyometer is that you can keep all of your ideas in a clear easily accessible database of your own creation. It's also a great brainstorming tool when you inevitably get stuck.Jack Tomas (Filmmaker and Novelist)
One thing I love about the Storyometer is that it encourages writers to get out into the world where they can always be listening to real people, thinking about writing, and processing their insights in a useful way as they occur.Matt Bird (Screenwriter / Blogger)
Playwriting Career Tips
- Writer's Store Play Tips How to Prepare Your Stage Play for the Theater Market
Screenplays to Read
- Awesome Film A web site that’s hard on the eyes but full of screenplays
- Script-o-Rama Lots of posted screenplays, updated fairlyoften
Screenwriting Blogs
- Go Into Story Scott Myers’ Popular Screenwriting bog
- Living the Romantic Comedy Billy Mernit’s Romantic Comedy blog
- What Does the Protagonist Want? Todd Alcott’s Screenwriting Blog?
Screenwriting Interviews
- Done Deal Pro Interviews Interviews posted on DoneDealPro since 2004
TV & Film Writing Podcasts
- The Nerdist Writer's Panel Lots of great Interviews, usually with TV writers
Young Adult/ Children's Fiction
- Cheryl Klein on Writing Cheryl Klein, Executive Editor at Scholastic Inc., shares her thoughts on narrative craft.










