The Corkboard
Move scenes around before you commit to an order.
Every scene becomes a card carrying its title and synopsis, so you can read a chapter without opening a document. Lay out an act, try a different order, and see the pacing before you commit to writing it.
How it works
Scenes as cards, arranged by eye.
Withering
Crow Signals
The Hollow
The Long Night
Index cards, not a spreadsheet
Drag a card to test a new order for a chapter, or lay out a whole act to see if the pacing actually works before you write a word of it.
Read a chapter without opening it
Each card carries the scene’s title and synopsis, so you can take in a chapter’s worth of story at once and decide what moves, without opening a single document.
Zoom out from the sentence level
Step back from line-editing and look at the shape of the book instead, without switching apps to do it.
Kept in sync
Reorder the board, and the Binder follows.
The Corkboard is a view onto the same tree the Binder uses, so dragging a card moves the actual scene rather than a copy of it. Stage colors come with it, which means you can see what is drafted and what is not while you rearrange.
- Drag a card to a new position and the chapter reorders with it
- Move a scene between chapters without cutting and pasting prose
- Stage colors carry over, so you can see what is drafted and what is not
- Snap to a grid or arrange freely, whichever suits how you think
- The Binder, Outliner, and Corkboard are three views of one manuscript
Withering
Crow Signals
The Hollow
The Long Night
Structure, at a glance
See the pacing of a whole act before you write it.
Lay out an act and the pacing shows itself: three short scenes in a row, a chapter carrying twice the weight of its neighbors, a subplot that goes quiet for 60 pages. Rearranging cards costs nothing, so you can try an order before you commit to writing it.
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