Story Circle Planner – Interactive 8-Step Novel Structure Tool (Digital Download)

Plan your novel with Dan Harmon's Story Circle in one interactive, offline HTML dashboard — all 8 steps with 32 guided questions, characters, worldbuilding, and a step calculator.

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8 guided step pages — 32 questions, every one with its own answer box

A step calculator that places each step at a chapter number, for novels of 20, 25, 30, 35 or 40 chapters — and shows you the real proportions the circle diagram hides

Story Foundation: logline, premise, theme, and Want against Need — the desire your character chases and the lesson they come home with

Worldbuilding: the zone of comfort your character starts and ends in, and the unfamiliar world they cross into at Go, written side by side

Character profiles: protagonist in the zone of comfort and after the return, want against need, antagonist, an ally or guide who helps in the unfamiliar world, and supporting cast

Progress ring, questions-answered counter, act-by-act tracking, and a quick-note pad

About this tool

You, Need, Go, Search, Find, Take, Return, Change. Eight words you can memorise in a minute, which is why almost anything can be squeezed into them and called a plan. What the shape will not survive is being asked what it means — and that is what this dashboard does, four questions at a time.

This is an interactive digital tool, not a static PDF. Open the single HTML file in any browser — no install, no account, no internet needed after download. Work through each step one at a time: what it does, guided questions with space to answer each one, and a mark-complete tracker with act-by-act progress. Everything you type saves automatically in your browser.

Story Circle Planner – Interactive 8-Step Novel Structure Tool (Digital Download)

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