Plot Workshop
Chris's Alchemical Lab
Turn vague chaos into a sequence of oh-no / oh-hell-yes story turns. This is where you sketch the bones your Beat Sheets will expand later.
Plot Workshop
Turn vague chaos into a sequence of oh-no / oh-hell-yes story turns.
Plot flavor playground
Tap a few bubbles to hint at the kind of trouble you want. You're not locking in a structure — you're just telling Chris what sort of explosions to cook up later.
What’s really at stake?
Pick a few that feel closest. You can always change your mind once the story sharpens.
What kind of reveals hit hardest?
These are the “oh no / oh hell yes” moments where new information flips the board.
Subplots you might weave in
You don’t have to use all of these. Think of them as side reactions in Chris’s lab.
Messy plot notes
Dump the big moves here — inciting incident, midpoint reversal, lowest point, climax, any subplots you know you want. Fragments are fine. You're stocking the lab, not writing the final formula.
Plot snapshot & Chris's help
Later, Ask Chris and Shine It Up will use your bubbles and notes to spit out feedback and a clean plot snapshot that Beat Sheets can build from. For now, you can mock that up by hand here.
Plot lab only • No AI yet
Story Core cost: TBA
Chris's feedback on this plot
When Ask Chris is live, his notes and suggestions will land here. For now, use this for “editor brain” thoughts about pacing, turns, or gaps you can feel but can't name yet.
Shined-up plot snapshot
This is the cleaned-up summary you'll eventually send into Beat Sheets. Aim for a 1–2 page overview of the story's main turns and emotional swing.
Take this plot with you
Print it, save it, or send it forward into Beat Sheets later. You can always come back to the lab when this story mutates.
Igniting this plot will eventually send key turns into Beat Sheets so you don't have to retype them. For now, it just logs the payload so we can wire things up safely later.