The product · World Building
Your story's world,
in one place.
Characters, locations, timelines, and research. Living next to the manuscript, cross-linked to every scene where they appear.
01 · Character sheets
Know your people before you write them.
Every character gets a structured sheet: age, occupation, wants, fears, speech patterns, relationships. Add a portrait. Tag them by arc. Every reference back-links to the scenes they appear in, so you can trace a character's journey through the manuscript.
34, born September 1972
Archivist. Left the city in 1998.
To understand why her mother stopped writing in 1994.
Water. Not fully — only the dark water of the boathouse.
Precise. Uses "one" rather than "you." Rare contractions.
Ch 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11
Character sheet · Elena Reyes · linked across 8 chapters
02 · Locations
Places with memory.
Each location is a card: name, description, sensory notes, time-of-day variants, and which scenes take place there. Pin reference images. Add a map sketch. When you write "INT. BOATHOUSE," Storyforge knows where that is and what it looks like.
03 · Timeline
See the shape of time.
A vertical timeline for backstory, plot events, and character arcs. Pin entries to chapters. Drag to reorder. Collapse decades you're not working in. When your novel spans 40 years, you need to see all 40 at once. Storyforge lets you.
04 · Cross-links
Everything connects back to the page.
Mention a character in a scene and Storyforge links it automatically. Open a character sheet and see every scene they appear in, every line they speak. Click through from a location to the chapters set there. The world and the manuscript are one surface.
05 · Shared worlds
One universe. Many books.
Writing a series? A franchise? Multiple books share a canonical world, a single source of truth for characters, timelines, and lore. Change a name in the series bible and it ripples to every manuscript that references it.
Build the world first.
The story follows.
World Building is included in every Storyforge plan. Request access to the private beta.