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Welcome, Author.

Your next chapter begins here.

Drafting your story is like an artist sketching a scene for the first time.

It may look like a scribble at first — but somewhere in those lines is the perfect one.

This is the same for your story.

Somewhere in your scribbles is the perfect line. Perfect voice.

You will find it.

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Your Projects

Ready to keep going, author?

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Title Your Project

Every manuscript deserves a name. Even a working one.

You can always change the title later.

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Ready to see your story?
Compile everything into a Story Foundation document — ready to take into the Outline tool or upload to Revise & Expand.

Your Elements

Continue to Outline →
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Create a New Element

Choose your starting point. You can always add more later.

Character
Start with a person worth following.
Scene
Start with a moment that refuses to be ignored.
World
Start with the rules of a place no one has seen before.
Conflict
Start with the pressure that changes everything.
Premise
Start with the question that won't leave you alone.
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Character

Build a Character

Start with a person worth following.

Want to go deeper?
What do they want more than anything?
What are they afraid of?
What lie do they believe about themselves?
What would break them?
What would change them?

You can always refine this later.

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Scene

Build a Scene

A moment that refuses to be ignored.

Want to go deeper?
What does this scene change?
What does the character want in this moment?
What are they afraid to admit?
What is left unsaid?
How does the space around them feel?

You can always refine this later.

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World

Build a World

The rules of a place no one has seen before.

Want to go deeper?
What do people in this world believe?
What is forbidden here?
What does power look like?
What do people long for?
What is the world afraid of becoming?

You can always refine this later.

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Conflict

Define the Conflict

The pressure that changes everything.

Want to go deeper?
Is this conflict external, internal, or both?
What does the character stand to lose?
What would resolving it cost them?
Who else is affected?
What makes this conflict impossible to walk away from?

You can always refine this later.

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Premise

State the Premise

The question that won't leave you alone.

Want to go deeper?
What do you want the reader to feel when it's over?
What belief does this story challenge?
What does the protagonist have to learn to earn the ending?
What would be lost if this story went untold?

You can always refine this later.

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Edit Your Element

Refine what you've built.

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Import from a Manuscript

Upload one or more books and AuthorUnlocked will extract the characters, world, conflicts, and premise automatically. Perfect for series writers beginning a new book.

Upload your finished manuscript files. The tool will read them and build your element foundation automatically — you review and edit before saving anything.
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Add manuscript files
.rtf, .txt, or .docx — add as many as needed
Series writers: upload all previous books at once
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Review Your Elements

These elements were extracted from your manuscript. Review each one — edit, remove, or add anything before saving to your project.

Your voice leads
These are the tool's best reading of your manuscript. Edit freely — add what's missing, remove what's wrong, adjust what doesn't sound like your story. You decide what gets saved.
Tools
01 Start Here 02 Outline 03 First Draft 04 Revise Standalone Learn