Planning Tools for stronger stories
Turn your ideas into a clear, compelling plan with guided story development tools and expert-led workshops. Strengthen your planning skills with every story you shape.
Start with a strong foundation
Whether you’re staring at a blank page or working with a half-formed idea, our planning tools help you shape the premise, find the structure, and spot problems early, so you can begin drafting a story you know holds together.
Story Canvas
Story Canvas uses guided prompts and instant feedback to help you explore your characters, plot, setting, conflict, themes, and structure. See how these elements work together, deepen your ideas, and build a stronger foundation before drafting.
Availability: All plans (limited on Free)
Best for: Developing new ideas, strengthening your story structure, and working through uncertainty before drafting
Plot Analysis
Plot Analysis identifies structural weaknesses, pacing issues, and missing story beats in your outline or draft. Use its feedback to strengthen your story and get better at spotting structural problems.
Availability: 1 Story Credit per run
Best for: Identifying structural pain points in your early drafts
Analyzes up to 300,000 words
Planning workshops
Planning looks different for every writer. Join workshops in the ProWritingAid Community led by authors, editors, and publishing professionals. Explore practical approaches to story structure, character development, world-building, outlining, and more.
Availability: Premium Pro
Best for: Learning new planning approaches, deepening your craft, and building skills you can apply to future stories
Planning Tools built for writers
Develop your story, strengthen your planning skills, and choose an approach that works for you.
Turn ideas into structure
Shape rough concepts into a plan you can draft from by working through your characters, plot, themes, and structure.
Learn as you plan
Use guided prompts and expert-led workshops to explore new planning approaches and build skills you can carry into future stories.
Make room for discovery
Give your story enough structure to guide your draft while leaving space for new ideas to emerge as you write.
“ Story Canvas helped me rediscover the potential in a 45‑year‑old draft I’d given up on. It gave me clarity, marketing insight, and the encouragement to bring that story back to life. I now use it for my current WIP and several future book ideas. ”
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Our approach to helping writers succeed
Craft grows through practice. Habit keeps that practice going. Mindset helps it last. Together, they form the ProWritingMethod—a complete approach to helping you succeed as a writer.
Hone your craft
Improve your writing with feedback on your real manuscript. As your craft grows, every writing session becomes more rewarding—making it easier to build lasting habits.
Build consistent habits
Writing improves through consistency. Regular practice helps you hone your craft, while momentum keeps you moving toward your goals.
Strengthen your mindset
Every writer faces doubt. Build the resilience to keep writing through setbacks, so your habits stay strong and your craft continues to grow.