Develop your idea into a story, and your story into a script

Arc Studio’s story development tools help you brainstorm, develop your characters and story, outline the plot, and write the script in one integrated process.

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Arc Studio visual story development board.

Built-in notes app

Brainstorm, organize your ideas, and world build

Arc Studio includes a built-in notes app so you can keep your ideas where they belong: with your script.

Arc Studio built-in notes app.

Notes templates

Story and character worksheets

Customizable templates let you create and import worksheets to develop your story and characters.

Story and character worksheet templates.

Visual outlining

Build your outline

Create your outline with drag-and-drop story beats on the intuitive Plot Board.

Drag-and-drop story beats on the Arc Studio Plot Board.

Story structure

Outlining templates

Need some help with your story structure? Use an outlining template to get started and adapt it to your needs.

An outlining template in Arc Studio.

Connected story development

Keep every part of your story in view

Color-coded story tracking

Create color-coded storyline, character, and location elements, and tag your beats with them to get a visual overview of your story.

Color-coded story elements in Arc Studio.

See your outline and notes as you write

When you’re ready to write your scenes, you can reference your outline and your notes side-by-side with the script.

Outline and notes beside an Arc Studio script.

Outline entire seasons

Break the story for an entire season, then turn each episode into its own script.

A season outline in Arc Studio.

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