Fiction
Your characters, places, plot and draft, all in one place and all within reach while you write.
Thirty-nine prompts across eight parts of a life. The profile grows as you answer.
Biggest fearArriving too late. Again.
Saddest memoryThe summer June stopped writing back.
SecretsShe kept the first letter. She never opened it.
Keep photographs, other names, era, season and atmosphere with each place, and see the chapters it turns up in.
Build a glossary of the terms a reader might need, with how to say them and what they mean.
Outline lays the story out event by event, with the moments inside each one, so you can see how it moves before you write it.
Plot, romance, mystery or a character’s arc, each mapped across your chapters from the first page to the last.
Duncan Pratt ordered for both of them and slid a folder across the tablecloth.
The number on the first page was higher than the valuation. Higher than anything June would have asked for.
SELLING THE BOATSHED · BUILDINGNell turned the page face down and asked about the kingfish.
Write mode hides the word count and spellcheck. Edit mode brings them back. Blackout darkens the page so you keep going instead of rereading.
The light at Point Lonsdale had been automated for eleven years before anyone thought to tell June.
At low tide the boatshed stood on mud, and the whole town could see what the water usually hid.
The second letter came on a Tuesday, in the same blue envelope, with no stamp.
Nell kept the key on a string around her wrist, the way June used to.
