For novelists
the middle is where books die.
Not on page one. Somewhere around chapter nine, when you can’t hold the whole thing in your head any more. Buildblur holds it for you.
What gets in the way
three things stop a draft.
- 01
You lose the thread
Who knew what, when; what colour her eyes were; which rule of the world you already broke. The world bible lives inside the page, and the continuity check quotes the two lines that disagree.
- 02
You lose the shape
Start on a structure — Three-Act, Save the Cat, the Hero’s Journey and five more — and every scene has a card that says what it’s for.
- 03
You lose the habit
A finish line with a date, a note to yourself for tomorrow, and a desk that opens on the scene you left.
the page, and nothing else.
Four ways to be alone with it.
Focus lights only the paragraph you’re in. Typewriter keeps your line in the middle of the screen. Zenith takes everything else away.
Manuscript typesetting by default, and a soundscape if silence isn’t working.
the shape, on one wall.
Architect.
Scene cards grouped by act, with point of view, place and mood on each. Drag them to reorder. Add storyboard frames when you can see it.
On the way home
ten minutes on the train count.
The same desk, in your pocket.
Open it on your phone and it picks up on the scene you left, with the line you left yourself.
Sign in on both and it’s the same story, kept in step: write on the train, pick it up at the desk.
New · Adapt
see it on screen.
Wondering if your novel would work as a film or a series? Adapt lays any chapter out as a screenplay in seconds, cast and all, without touching the book. Try it.
when you want a second opinion.
Jeff reads your scene and your world, then suggests. Continue, rewrite, a pacing read, the questions a good editor would ask. You keep what you like, word for word, and the rest disappears.
start the one you keep not starting.
Free during the beta. Sign in with Google, open it and type. Saved to your account.