Ghostkey studio
Ghostkey. Where your ideas live.

Your plot comes alive.

Ghostkey's plotting room allows you to outline in prose or lay out beats on a board, and to plot with the chat. It turns your plan into chapters, and keeps it beside the page while you write. Whether you plan first or write first, there's a place for your ideas to grow.

Plan

Plot with cards, or write your outline.

Lay your plot out as beat cards on a board, or write it as an outline in prose, the way you'd tell it to a friend.

Ghostkey comes with a catalogue of beat sheets, and lets you make your own. Already written the book? It reads the draft and builds the plan from it.

Beat sheets from a catalogue of structures, with room for cards of your own.
An outline in your own words, no template required.
A plan built from the draft you already have.
Mara — Cards
Mara — Cards — A beat board
Chat

Plot with the chat.

Talk your plot through, and watch the board change beside the conversation.

Ask for an alternative ending, a darker midpoint, a subplot that pays off. The chat reworks the beats with you, and the board stays open next to it so you see every change as it lands.

The board open beside the chat, updated as you talk.
Try a version, keep it or go back.
It knows your book, your cast and your notes.
Chat, with the board beside it
Chat, with the board beside it — Plotting in the chat
Chapters

Refine your chapter list.

When the plot is ready, the chat turns it into chapters, with the list open beside the conversation.

It never invents your story. Where the plan leaves a spot undefined, it asks you instead of filling it in.

It asks about the gaps, it doesn't make them up.
It makes sure your structure fits your target length.
It writes notes in each chapter, so you can write in peace.
It tags the characters in each chapter, so you see them in the margin.
Chat, with the chapters beside it
Chat, with the chapters beside it — Refining the chapter list
Writing

Your plot stays with you.

Open a chapter and its plan is right there in the margin: the notes you wrote and the characters who walk through it.

No tabbing away to check what this chapter was meant to do, or what a character is after. Open their card beside the page and their goal, motivation and conflict are one click away.

The chapter's notes beside the page.
Every character in the chapter, in the margin.
Their goals and motivations, one click away.
Apparition — In this chapter
Apparition — In this chapter — The plan beside the page
Get started

Start plotting tonight.

Signing up is free. Bring an idea, an outline, or a draft that needs a new shape.