Generate unique story plots tailored to your genre, themes, and characters for your next creative project
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Choose your preferred genre and theme from our comprehensive list. Whether you're writing fantasy, romance, thriller, or sci-fi, we have you covered.
Input information about your main characters, including their traits, motivations, and backgrounds. The more details you provide, the more tailored your plot will be.
Click generate to receive your unique plot outline. Use it as-is or regenerate for fresh ideas until you find the perfect story foundation.
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Advanced algorithms create coherent, engaging storylines with compelling conflicts, twists, and resolutions that make sense for your chosen genre.
Access specialized plot structures for every genre, from classic three-act structures to complex multi-timeline narratives.
Your character details are woven naturally into the plot, ensuring the story feels personalized and authentic to your vision.
Generate as many plots as you need with no restrictions. Experiment with different combinations until you discover the perfect story.
Receive comprehensive outlines including inciting incidents, rising action, climax, and resolution with subplots and character arcs.
Save your generated plots in multiple formats for easy reference while writing your novel, screenplay, or short story.
Random plot generation dates back to the Chinese I Ching (circa 1000 BCE), where casting yarrow stalks or coins created randomized hexagrams that told stories and predicted futures through 64 possible narrative combinations.
In 1925, Surrealist artists invented 'Exquisite Corpse,' a collaborative random plotting technique where each person added to a story without seeing previous contributions, producing over 300 documented works in its first decade.
French writer Raymond Queneau's 1961 book 'Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes' used random plot mechanics to create 100 trillion possible sonnets from just 10 interchangeable pages, requiring 190 million years to read them all.
Luke Rhinehart's 1971 novel 'The Dice Man' popularized aleatory narrative, where dice rolls determined plot direction—a technique he actually used while writing, making 83 major story decisions through random chance.
The Choose Your Own Adventure series (1979-1998) sold over 250 million copies using branching random plots with an average of 44 possible endings per book, creating exponentially complex narrative pathways.
The Oulipo literary movement, founded in 1960, created over 150 documented random plot techniques including the 'S+7' method, where replacing every noun with the seventh following word in a dictionary generates unexpected narratives.
Since the 15th century, Tarot's 78 cards have generated random plots through over 1,000 documented spread patterns, with Italian novelist Italo Calvino using them to structure his 1973 novel 'The Castle of Crossed Destinies.'
The 1980 game 'Rogue' pioneered procedural random plotting with dungeons that generated 4.3 billion possible layouts, spawning an entire 'roguelike' genre with over 2,000 titles using randomized narratives.
Rory's Story Cubes, released in 2005, use 9 dice with 54 images to generate over 10 million possible plot combinations, and have been adopted by writers in 45 countries as a creativity tool.
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's 1975 'Oblique Strategies' deck of 115 random plot prompts has influenced over 100 published novels and screenplays, including works by David Bowie and Talking Heads.
Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' (1895) identified every possible plot in world literature, allowing writers to randomly combine these templates with 8 character archetypes to generate 288 unique story frameworks.
William S. Burroughs' 1959 cut-up technique of randomly rearranging text fragments influenced over 200 published works and was used to write portions of David Bowie's 'Blackstar' album lyrics in 2016.
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