Software for writing fantasy novels
Keep the invented world close to the book you’re writing.
Scriptorum connects the detail behind a fantasy world with the practical work of drafting and revising its story. No cloud account or subscription is required.
A fantasy draft can outgrow a folder of character sheets quickly. The challenge is keeping the relevant rule, relationship, or historical event available without stopping the scene to search for it.
Organize the world around the conflict
Create collections for characters, places, factions, artifacts, or rules. Use profiles for answers that must remain consistent, and boards for questions you are still exploring. The categories belong to your story; they are not fixed character-generator forms.
In The Lantern Archive example, the important fact about a forgotten street is who can enter it and what doing so costs. That fact belongs beside the people and decisions it affects.
Inside The Lantern Archive
Give the people and institutions in the novel their own profiles.
Follow relationships and chronology
Connect individual people, places, and events in a labeled Relationship Map. Use timelines for event sequences and planning boards for possible scenes. Open a profile to follow its direct connections and references.
These tools help you inspect your material; they are not an automatic continuity checker, a map-drawing package, or a promise to manage a series canon for you.
Inside The Lantern Archive
Make a connection specific enough to explain a decision.
Give the manuscript its own surface
Write chapters in Pages or Continuous view, add optional scenes, and revise with snapshots, review notes, or deliberate tracked changes. Interface language is independent of the language of your prose.
Keep the working vault local. Export DOCX for editing, PDF for proofing, or EPUB 3 for reading. Back up the vault and review the exported book in its intended tools.
Inside The Lantern Archive
Let the world support the scene rather than displace it.
Common questions
Useful things to know.
Can I organize a series?
You can adapt boards and profiles to series research. Each book has its own vault; Scriptorum does not automatically synchronize canon between book vaults.
Does Scriptorum write fantasy prose for me?
No. It provides planning, organization, drafting and export tools for your own writing.
Plan. Write. Publish.
Keep the whole book together.
Scriptorum for Windows 10 & 11. A one-time purchase for up to three personal devices. Activate online, then write offline.
Questions before you buy? →One-time purchase. A perpetual license for the version you buy, on up to 3 personal devices.
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