Basic Outline
Miguel's Concert Hall
Turn your beats into chapters with a rough wordcount plan so your story hits all the big notes without dragging the bridge.
Basic Outline
Turn your beats into chapters with a rough wordcount plan.
Story voice and lens
Decide how the story is told before you slice it into chapters. Miguel uses these choices when sanity-checking your outline later.
Narrative person (who is telling this?)
Pick how close you want the reader stuck to a character’s skull, and how many skulls we’re hopping between.
Tense (when does this feel like it’s happening?)
Past tense feels like a story told over a drink. Present tense feels like a camera strapped to your head.
POV rules of the game
These help Miguel check if any planned chapters break your own rules later.
Beats you're pacing
Paste or type the beats you want to turn into chapters, one per line. These usually come from Victoria's beat sheet bakery.
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Target size
Miguel will suggest chapters based on your wordcount and how crowded your beats are.
Chapter estimate
Set a target wordcount and some beats to get an estimate.
Chapter lineup
Tweak titles, POV labels, and which beats land in which chapter. Drag-and-drop will come later; for now, edit the text directly.
No chapters yet. Generate them from your beats and target wordcount above.
Miguel's notes and shine
Later, Ask Miguel and Shine It Up will use this outline to catch pacing gaps and suggest smoother chapter flow. For now, you can take notes and draft your own polished snapshot.
Basic Outline only • No AI yet
Story Core cost: TBA
Miguel's notes on pacing
Use this box like future-Miguel’s dev-edit summary. Jot where the outline feels thin, overstuffed, or emotionally flat.
Shined-up outline snapshot
Draft a clean 1–2 page overview of how the chapters flow. This will be the version you send into Missy's Greenhouse later.
Take this outline with you
Save your chapter plan, or ignite it to carry everything forward into Missy's Greenhouse for advanced outlining.
Igniting this outline will eventually send chapter and pacing details into Missy's Greenhouse so you don't have to retype them. For now, it just logs the payload so we can wire things up safely later.