Fictionary

Turn your first draft into a great story

Fictionary

Turn your first draft into a great story

Fictionary is a game-changing online tool for fiction writers with a first draft. Fictionary guides writers through an automated, big-picture edit with a deep focus on story structure, not on the words. Think characters, plot, and settings.

With Fictionary you can visualize and evaluate your manuscript on a scene-by-scene basis to ensure your story works. Save time on your rewrites and save money on editing services by sharing only your best work. Be your own big-picture editor. Become a better writer.

Kristina Stanley Founder, Author

Anthony Alleyne July 25, 2017 4:25pm

Very promising. Would this also work for screenwriters when they're working on treatments which don't have chapters but do have story arcs?

Peter D'Hollander July 25, 2017 4:43pm

@AntAlleyne screenwriters have scenes, don't they? I would say it should work as well

Kristina Stanley July 25, 2017 5:15pm

@AntAlleyne Very insightful :) We have this on our radar for a future release depending on community interest. Currently, Fictionary evaluates manuscripts but not screenplays. As we are fiction writers, we chose to focus on novels first. Thanks for the question.

Sonya Conn July 25, 2017 5:23pm

Looks like a great app!

Kristina Stanley July 25, 2017 9:38pm

@sonyaconn Thank you :) I hope it helps you create a story readers love!

Raimey Gallant July 25, 2017 8:33pm

This is already such a clean beta, and the developers are on top of making it super smooth.

Kristina Stanley July 25, 2017 9:39pm

@raimeygallant Thank you. You've been a great beta tester!

Raimey Gallant July 25, 2017 10:22pm

I forgot to mention that I'm an author, in case it wasn't apparent. Perhaps not a well-rested one. ;)

Charlotte Morganti July 25, 2017 8:43pm

Fictionary is tres cool.

Kristina Stanley July 25, 2017 9:39pm

@CAMorganti Thank you, Charlotte. It's great to have you on board. Best of luck with your writing.

Jessie B Tyson July 25, 2017 11:05pm

@CAMorganti How is it cool? What do you like about it....etc

DSKaneThriller July 25, 2017 10:35pm

As an Amazon Bestselling author, I have used Fictionary to revise my current work in progress, entitled MindField, an espionage technothriller due out in early December 2017. My feeling is that Fictionary helped me to improve the manuscript significantly, and I will use in on all my subsequent novels. I am trained as both a novelist and screenwriter, but I focus exclusively on producing novels. And, that is where Fictionary is most useful. The toolbox within Fictionary helps a novelist see exactly where their work is weakest and strongest, and pushes me to work on fixing my problems.

Kristina Stanley July 25, 2017 10:40pm

@DSKaneThriller Congratulations on your writing success, and I'm so pleased Fictionary has helped such an established author as youself. Thanks for stopping by and letting us know what you think!

Jessie B Tyson July 25, 2017 10:45pm

I will be the first to say (being a dumbo senior) I havent a clue how this works.

Kristina Stanley July 25, 2017 10:55pm

@JessieBTyson We'd love for you to try Fictionary. if you have a chance, let me know, and I can help you out.

Best of luck with your writing.

Jessie B Tyson July 25, 2017 11:03pm

@FictionRewrite Thanks for your reply. I still say I am a dumbo, simply because without downloading it I cannot see how to use this program. Do we upload and where does our story go to, the cloud (dislike that) or does it stay in our computers....

Jessie B Tyson July 25, 2017 11:04pm

@JessieBTyson PS all I see is a bunch of graphics

Jessie B Tyson July 25, 2017 11:08pm

@FictionRewrite sorry I REALLY need to know how it works before I download it to my small gig computer. I'm sure you have it mentioned somewhere, I just cant find it, can only see graphics.

Alan Seger July 26, 2017 7:25pm

I am not a fan of monthly subscriptions for things I would only use occasionally. I write music, fiction, non-fiction, dabble in graphic arts, etc. At any given time, I may be focused on just writing music for a few months for example and not ever use my writing application or my graphics software. A subscription model charging me monthly when I am not using it does not work for me. Scrivener and Aeon Timeline are essential writing tools for me and priced affordably. If either required a subscription, I would not have bothered to even try them out. Please make a standalone product that I can buy and use at my leisure.

Kristina Stanley July 26, 2017 9:53pm

@musiclogical Hi Alan. Thanks for stopping by. Fictionary allows an author to sign on for a month with no long term commitment, so they can use it only when they are in the structural editing phase of their work. An author would use Scrivener when they are writing their first draft, and Fictionary when they are ready to work on story structure. Fictionary can be used in one month increments until the writer is happy with their manuscript.

We chose the subscription model, so we can deliver monthly updates to make the tool as useful as possible to writers, and Fictionary will get better every month as we continue to develop it.

Best of luck with your endeavors.

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