What is the Scene Builder Tool?
Scenes are what make up stories. When you focus in on the fine elements that make up your scenes and create your story, you give yourself the space to see your story at both the high level and the structural level. Doing this makes structural and content edits a breeze.
A lot of writers spin their wheels trying to figure out why their stories don’t work. Why aren’t readers understanding the stakes of the story? Who is the main character of the story? How do I get readers to feel the payoffs are earned?
The Scene Builder is a free tool that allows authors to see all the moving parts of their story and analyze the data that makes up a scene to see how it builds the larger plot.
Who is the Scene Builder for?
This tool is for any writer who wants to know how their story works at any stage of the writing process. You can use the Scene Builder to:
- Build out your story’s scenes before you begin drafting
- Draft the scenes of your story while writing
- Revise your story by analyzing each scene
You can see if you lose a character, forget to tie off a subplot, or meet your genre’s obligatory scenes and reader expectations.
The Scene Builder is designed to work for all types of writers no matter if they are plotters, pantsers, plantsers, architects, chefs, gardeners, or any other type of writer.
Sign Up for May 1st Launch
Sign up for a free editor designed writing tool that helps you pre-draft, draft, and revise your story on the scene level.
Created and built by Hugo Award winning editor and published author Aigner Loren Wilson.
What Early Sign Up Gets You
By signing up now before April 20th, you get:
- Dev and build process updates
- Early access to tool before May 1st launch
- Join online community of serious writers
- Lifetime discount on all Pro Home Writer tools
- Ability to provide early feedback and insight
The Scene Builder was built for you. Get early access to help make sure it’s the best tool for writers it can be.
Who Built the Scene Builder?
Aigner Loren Wilson built and designed the Scene Builder Tool as a way of helping authors who have trouble with their scenes, pacing, conflict, and story progressions. She was a senior fiction editor for Strange Horizons and a former associate editor for the Black horror podcast NIGHTLIGHT. Along with her work with Strange Horizons and NIGHTLIGHT, she’s served as guest editor for Apparition Literary’s Contamination issue and Fireside Magazine’s 2022 winter issues. She’s also been a judge for NYC Midnight’s short story contests.
Aigner has written monthly reviews for Tor Nightfire and Lightspeed Magazine. Her fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice, and more. Her poetry has been published in FIYAH, Anathema, and more. Her nonfiction can be found in WIRED, Writer’s Digest, The Washington Post, and many more. Her work has been called evocative, noteworthy, and imaginative and has earned her an honorable mention for the 2019 Otherwise Fellowship Award, been nominated for the Ignyte Award for best novelette and best critic, and she won a Hugo Award in 2024 for her work with Strange Horizons.
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