Story Settings: Overview
October 20, 2024 vers. 1.0
Overview
Use Storyfyre to create and describe great story settings and world rules for your story. It's fun, motivating and makes for a better story.
Story settings are the places and backdrops of your story. The locations. They are the rules, and groups, and things in your story. They connect your readers with your story.
Whether it's the system your characters overcome or each place/setting/background where the story happens or the rules for your story's world.
The more you know about your story settings, backgrounds, locations, and rules of your story/world/novel, the easier it is to create the story. Understanding your story settings helps you expand the story and keep the story clear. And it's a ton of fun.
Let your story settings help you build your story. Describe/Map your Story Settings to Success.
Add your story's Story Settings, locations, attributes, notes, thoughts, ideas, rules, worlds, things, and more here. You choose what you add.
Story Settings and your story settings view are an important part of your story settings bible.
Create/edit your Story Settings and their attributes, Storyfyre makes creating your story settings easy.
Download/export your story settings view, story settings templates, and story settings data to use in other places and to back it up. Download/export to Microsoft Word, HTML, and PDF.
Welcome to your Story Settings.
Write faster, rewrite faster, write better story settings. Finish more stories. Have more fun.
What this Tutorial Covers
Basics
The Story Settings consists of a set of easy and quick-to-use areas to help you create, map, plan, and organize your story settings better after you write them or when you originally create them.
The story settings view makes the best of your writing and thought time, to create better story settings, stories, and even more writing time.
It also includes the ability to create, edit, and even reorder/move your story settings and their story setting attributes.
* In a future version you'll even be able to filter your story settings based on story and user created tags, filters, story setting/story tags etc... And you'll be able to label and group your story settings attributes.
The story settings view flexibly helps you do it your way, no matter what writing or story setting process you use. It keeps the fun in story settings, writing, but removes the work, makes the work fun.
How to Use
- Create, fix, plan, edit, name, rename, rewrite, or add an existing story setting, after you write them.
- Create, plan, organize a story setting before you write them.
- Download story settings information from your story bible, story map, scene map, story settings view using that infomation in other places.
- Understand, think through, add to, and fix a story setting that isn't quite working.
- Generate momentum in your story or novel by concentrating on its story settings for a while.
- Create a story setting bible, story bible, scene bible, story settings view for your story, novel, book.
- Take your story setting bible, story bible, scene bible, story settings view for your story, novel, book along with you on any device to view or work on, anywhere.
- Plan, write, a screenplay, article, thesis, speech, story or other written item based on your story settings.
- Quickly understand/redo story settings in a story for a tighter, better story.
- Clean a novel or book's story settings up before publishing the book/story.
- Make sure a novel or book's story settings are right, before putting it out for beta reading.
- Getting story setting feedback you don't understand? Understand your story settings first and their attributes end to end.
- Remove writer's block from writing or rewriting using story setting information and working on a story setting, to write faster.
- See if you need to have a different view of your story settings fast.
- Have a story or series that is quite long and can't remember everything? Create your story/book/story setting bible.
- Write, rewrite story settings faster using a story setting bible.
- Use Storyfyre Story Settings with Microsoft Word and other writing softwares to turn them into story, novel, book writing machines. Or use your story setting bible outside of your story in HTML.
Learn about your story's Story Settings and let your story settings help you write the story.
Whether you create your story settings while you write or before you write, keeping track of your story settings is important and creating them is fun.
Knowing why a story setting/world rule, story rule, thing, group, location, place, item or other acts in a certain way/does something is important to the story. It helps you to know why they do something, are something, before they do/are it. It helps you and the reader.
Storyfyre makes creating and managing your story settings a blast and easy. Storyfyre frees you up to have fun in your writing again.
Add your story setting attributes, notes, thoughts, ideas, about your story settings here.
Storyfyre won't write your story for you, but it will help you discover and write your story and story settings better.
Our goal is to enhance the writing experience for every author. Fixing your writing thought process and story setting process fixes your story.
Get Started
The Storyfyre Story Settings work area is divided into a Top Menu, and under that an Area Toolbar, a Work Area, a soon to be added Filter Area(next version), and depending upon your writing device screen size a left hand Hover Action Menu.
(On smaller screen devices the left hand Hover Action Menu is hidden under a three-line hamburger menu on the top menu.)
(Larger screens will display the left hand Hover Action Menu.)
The Top Menu is the same for all areas of the software.
On the Story Settings Top Menu we have added an Add Story Setting quick action icon button .
Or you can use the 3 dot ellipsis Create/Customize menu icon button located on the Top Menu to quickly Add Story Settings to the Story Settings View and to access all the Create/Customize menu features.
The Create/Customize menu features are discussed in the Storyfyre Welcome Guide area:
Storyfyre: Overview.
Use the Quick Tips for the Story Settings View found under the help menu icon button on the Story Settings View toolbar for a fast start.
Story Settings Quick Tips help you quickly start using the Story Settings to create/map/plan/replan a story setting and story setting attributes.
Next you'll find the Story Settings Filter Area and Story Settings Toolbar just below the Top Menu.
We'll cover the Story Settings Toolbar and Filter Area separately in the Story Settings Toolbar Help Area:
Story Settings: Toolbar
And in the Story Settings Filters Help Area:
Story Settings: Filters
Story Settings Areas
The story settings view contains the following:
Story Settings: Toolbar:
Navigate the Storyfyre software areas, Use the Story Settings filters and toolbar functionality
Story Settings: Toolbar
Story Settings: Story Settings:
Add/Create, edit, delete, manage, move and order Story Settings.
Story Settings: Story Settings
Story Settings: Story Setting Attributes:
Add/Create, edit, delete, manage, move and order Story Setting Attributes.
Story Settings: Story Setting Attributes
Story Settings: Filters:
Filter your Story Settings/Story Settings view/what you can see by story setting tags, user created tags, story setting filters and more.Drill down and focus or keep it as light as you want to. Create story setting tags, user created tags, story setting filters, and more to filter your story settings view.
Story Settings: Filters
Story Settings: Download/Backup/Export:
Download, backup, export your story settings view, story map, story bible.
Story Settings: Download/Backup/Export Help
Limits
We know of some limits within Storyfyre, in each area we will try and list the ones we know of at the bottom, and ones which we intend to address with our future updates.
Filters, Story Setting filters/tags, custom user tags and more will be added in the next version.
Storyfyre is growing daily, let us know what we can include. We appreciate your help.