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Creative Writing

Story outlines, character sheets, and drafts — with an editor that knows your world.

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About this template

A workspace for writers. Outline stories, flesh out characters, build out your world, and draft chapters — all in one place. Plank plays the role of an editor who's read every note you've written and remembers the details you set up three chapters ago.

What's included

  • Story folder for outlines, beats, and drafts
  • Character sheets with arcs and relationships
  • Worldbuilding folder for lore and setting
  • context.md captures your voice, themes, and goals
  • AI editor grounded in your manuscript and notes

What Plank handles

The everyday jobs this workspace hands off to Plank — you review the finished work, not the busywork.

  • Counts words from drafts

    Reads your draft files, counts what you wrote during the day and updates the per-project counters — no need to enter the target and progress by hand.

    “Count how much I wrote today and update the table”

  • Proofreads and suggests edits

    Goes through a chapter, flags typos, clunky phrases and repetitions and suggests sharper wording — without rewriting your voice.

    “Proofread this chapter and suggest edits”

  • Keeps character cards and the world

    Builds and keeps a reference of characters, locations and timeline, so names, details and dates stay consistent across chapters.

    “Create a character card for Marta and her storyline”

  • Helps untangle the plot

    Breaks down the setup, finds slow spots and logic holes and offers ways to move a scene forward when you hit a wall.

    “Suggest three endings for this story”

  • Reminds you of the daily target

    Watches your rhythm and contest deadlines, and warns you if a streak is about to break or a due date is near.

    “How many words to hit today’s target?”

  • Finds material and quotes

    Looks up facts, period details and fitting quotes for a scene and lays them out with sources — research does not pull you away from the text.

    “Find everyday details of 1910s St. Petersburg for this scene”

  • Prepares the text to submit

    Formats the manuscript to a publisher or contest requirements and puts together a synopsis and cover letter.

    “Format the story to the contest rules and write a synopsis”

  • Wraps up your week

    Counts words, the streak and progress on each text, notes where the rhythm slipped and suggests a focus for next week.

    “Summarize my writing week”

See it working

This is what it looks like in Plank — real dashboards with data. Everything is interactive: drag cards, check off tasks. Sample data.

Creative writing — Projects, words, streak

Demo mode — changes aren't saved and reset on reload.

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