The Glasshouse · Outline builder
Scene by scene
Acts hold chapters; chapters hold scenes. Drag scene cards to reshape the rhythm.
Outline seeds will appear here.
Confirm a vision in Book Vision, or carry a concept over from Idea lab, and starter beats for this outline will land here.
Add a romance arc?
Optional overlay on top of your base structure — annotation only. Your outline isn't touched.
Outline canvas
3 acts · 5 chapters
Inciting image. Iris arriving alone, fog over the harbor.
Sense of absence. June's coat still on the hook.
Inciting incident. A folded note dated weeks before she vanished.
First glimpse of the glasshouse — beautiful, ruined.
Hope quietly planted. Theme stated.
Reunion that isn't a reunion.
First real obstacle. Information withheld.
Quiet before the turn.
Midpoint reversal.
Ally crystallises. Stakes raised.
Crisis. The truth Iris feared.
Climax in the glasshouse.
Quiet resolution. Theme echoed.