You have a publishing house or film production company? You run a writers’ room or creative writing classes? Then you want to be able to manage who works on which projects, and who gets view only rights. Specify how many people will be working on your business’ or institution’s stories and narratives, and Bob’s your uncle.
One work, but several stories? Intertwined storylines that are somewhat more independent of each other than regular subplots? Think Pulp Fiction or Prêt-à-Porter, and you see what a multiplot story is. For an author, it is much harder to plan and organise a multiplot narrative than a story with a subplot or two. But don’t worry, we’re working on a cool tool to help you keep control, however many protagonists you’re dealing with.
Writing historical fiction? Then you’ll be very interested to note what is happening on the great canvas of history at exactly the moment the princess is waiting for her beau to arrive.
Sure, you know what each character involved in each scene is doing at that moment. But what is everyone else in the story up to at the same time? Create a timeline for each character – and make sure Fred isn’t in Albuquerque as well as Seattle at one and the same moment.
