A straightforward way to start, with more depth when you need it

ePlotera is a novel writing and story planning application. It keeps scenes, chapters, manuscript writing, and optional story information together in one project.

ePlotera is for novelists in general: discovery writers, planners, writers working on simple novels, and writers whose projects eventually need deeper worldbuilding or continuity tools.

Yes. ePlotera includes a manuscript editor for drafting and revising your novel, with its scene and chapter structure close at hand.

No. You can begin with a single scene, add more as you discover the story, and organize them into chapters when useful.

Yes. A simple Scenes to Chapters workflow is enough. The more advanced tools are optional.

Yes. Characters, lore, maps, relationships, and other worldbuilding tools do not have to be part of your workflow.

Yes. When useful, you can organize characters, locations, organizations, events, relationships, Codex lore, and maps alongside the novel.

No. ePlotera is for novelists across genres. Worldbuilding tools can support fiction in any genre whenever the story benefits from structured places, people, organizations, history, or relationships. They remain optional, and the core writing workflow is not genre-specific.

Scenes are the individual story units you plan and write. You can arrange them into chapters, then use that structure while drafting the manuscript.

Events represent things that happen in the story. They can be placed in chronology, connected to story entities, and used to record changes caused by what happened.

No. Events are useful when you want explicit chronology or continuity tracking, but you can write and organize a novel with scenes and chapters alone.

The timeline uses ordered events to show story history. For supported story entities, it can also show recorded states before and after the events that changed them.

Yes. Event Changes can record how their details or state change, and Entity Timeline can show those recorded states at different points in the story.

It keeps the manuscript and story records in the same project, links related information, and can track event-driven changes when the story needs more precise historical continuity.

They are stored as structured, searchable records inside the project, so their details can remain available alongside scenes, events, and the manuscript.

The Codex is a flexible place for lore, objects, systems, terminology, and other story-specific concepts that do not fit the standard character, location, organization, or event records.

Yes. The relationship graph can show labeled connections across characters, locations, organizations, and events.

Yes. The map editor supports regions, routes, labels, and story locations for projects that benefit from a geographic view.

No. Every project can use the amount of structure that suits it. Start with scenes and chapters, then add only the tools that solve a real need.

You do. The ePlotera Terms of Service state that you retain the rights and ownership of the stories and other content you create in the application.

You can select assembled chapters and export them as DOCX, Structured DOCX, Markdown, or plain TXT.

Yes. ePlotera currently offers a free plan alongside paid subscription plans. The Pricing page shows the current plans and the features included in each.

Paid plans are shown with a monthly price and are purchased through Stripe. The exact current price and currency are displayed before checkout.

Yes. Before you confirm a plan change, ePlotera shows the current and new plan, the new monthly price, any amount due immediately, and when the change takes effect.

Your paid access remains active until the end of the current billing period. Your project data is preserved, and you can reactivate or choose a paid plan again later.

A standard word processor focuses mainly on prose and document formatting. ePlotera connects the manuscript to scene and chapter planning and, when needed, to structured story information and continuity.

Yes. You can use its scenes, chapters, events, and story records for planning even if you choose to draft or finish the prose in another tool.