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Scene One's mission is to make writing your books as easy as possible.

We provide a simple text editor, and our software manages all your scenes and projects for you.

All of your words are securely stored in the cloud, and can be accessed from anywhere.

Write your first book for free

Write on every device

Scene One lets you write on all of your devices, and in every web browser.

This includes on desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone. And you can seamlessly switch between devices.

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Scene One counts every word you write so that you can keep track of your progress and set writing goals.

The AI Writing Assistant helps you to write faster and clearer.

Build your worlds with a custom wiki, and track every mention of your story elements.

Compile and export your manuscripts as PDF or DocX.

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Try Scene One for free

We invite all new writers to try our features and writing experience with a free two-week trial!

You'll also receive a gift of 2,000 AI words to use during the trial with the AI Writing Assistant.

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Read our latest writing blogs

Romance books and their subgenres

Romance book cover
Romance is one of the most popular book genres, especially in the self-publishing field. It also has one of the longer lists of subgenres to write in. So, in this article, we discuss...
Read the blog post on romance genres

The 10 "Save the Cat!" Story Genres

The 10 Save the Cat! Story Genres
In its quest to delve deeper into the mechanics of story structure and development, the Save the Cat! system goes beyond the regular genres of sci-fi, fantasy, romance, and the like! In fact...
Read the blog post on Save the Cat! genres

What is Dan Harmon's Story Circle and how does it work? [Updated 2022]

Dan Harmon's Story Circle structure
The Story Circle contains eight story beats (which we'll get into below) that define certain events or epiphanies that the main focus character experiences throughout the story, and helps to guide the writer through the process of developing the plot (either for a book or TV episode...
Read the blog post on Dan Harmon's Story Circle

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Create detailed profiles for everyone and everything in your stories

World Building Help

Create your characters, items, and locations with our Wiki Manager.

  • Story elements are automatically detected and tagged as you write, with quick links added to wiki entries.
  • Easily track down the MacGuffin's first mention or where you wrote an important detail.
  • Add notes and details about all the different elements of your worlds.
  • Share wikis between projects.
  • Stats and graphs show who your important characters and elements are.

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Story Planning & Revision Management

Use the Save the Cat! Beat Sheet Manager to plan your stories and develop your plot, and the Revision Board to go over your notes

  • Speed up your story development with our Beat Sheet Manager.
  • Attach reminders either to entire projects or to individual scenes.
  • See all of your reminders (and quickly jump back to the appropriate scene) from the Revision Board.
  • Easily filter these revisions for quicker access.
Keep detailed notes and reminders on entire manuscripts or individual scenes

How much does it cost?

Monthly PlansLifetime Plans
Free

Write one story (up to 100,000 words).

Try all standard features (available with Lifetime) for two weeks, including up to 5,000 AI words.

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The Free plan includes:

  • Create one story
  • Write up to 100,000 words (including notes)
  • PDF-only exporter
  • Existing wikis are read-only
  • Free trial lasts only 2 weeks from sign-up
  • Unused AI words expire after trial
  • Any standard feature items created during the trial (such as wikis and beat sheets) will revert to read-only mode after the trial
  • Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
Free

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Lifetime

Create and save unlimited stories and words, and gain access to all standard features.

Get a bonus 20,000 AI words (one-time).

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The Lifetime product includes:

  • Create unlimited stories/projects.
  • Cloud-save unlimited words and notes.
  • PDF and Word DocX exporters.
  • Create custom wikis for your projects where you can flesh our characters, locations, and more.
  • Automatically track and tag the occurances of wiki items in your prose. Meaning you can easily find and jump to every mention of a location or magical object in your story.
  • Share projects with other Scene One users.
  • Use the Save the Cat! beat sheet to develop your plots.
  • Keep track of your notes with the Revision Board.
  • Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
$99 USD one-time

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Standard

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Create and save unlimited stories and words, and gain access to our standard-tier features.

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The Standard plan includes:

  • Create unlimited stories/projects.
  • Cloud-save unlimited words and notes.
  • PDF and Word DocX exporters.
  • Create custom wikis for your projects where you can flesh our characters, locations, and more.
  • Automatically track and tag the occurances of wiki items in your prose. Meaning you can easily find and jump to every mention of a location or magical object in your story.
  • Share projects with other Scene One users.
  • Use the Save the Cat! beat sheet to develop your plots.
  • Keep track of your notes with the Revision Board.
$9 USD per month

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Advanced AI

Gain access to our advanced AI writing assistant (as well as everything in the Standard plan).

Create/edit up to 50,000 AI words each month.

Purchase additional AI words.

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The Advanced plan includes:

  • Create/edit up to 50,000 words each month with our AI tools. (This doesn't affect how many you can write!)
  • Use across all of your stories/projects.
  • Purchase more AI words as needed
  • Generate new prose that matches your style and voice, and which carries on your scene.
  • Rewrite sentences that aren't quite working.
  • Expand stub paragraphs to flesh out ideas.
$16 USD per month

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Professional AI

Best Value

Create/edit up to 150,000 AI words each month, plus all other Advanced features.

Purchase additional AI words.

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The Professional plan includes:

  • Create/edit up to 150,000 words each month with our AI writing tools. (This doesn't affect how many you can write!)
  • Purchase more AI words as needed
  • Be even more creative and productive!
$25 USD per month

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AI Words
AI Word Booster - 100k

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Gain an additional 100,000 AI words to use with AI Writing Assistant.

Purchase as often as you like.

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  • AI words purchased in boosters do not expire until used.
$11 USD one-time

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AI Word Booster - 200k

Best Value

Gain an additional 200,000 AI words to use with AI Writing Assistant.

Purchase as often as you like.

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  • AI words purchased in boosters do not expire until used.
$20 USD one-time

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All plans include: clouding saving, integrated stats tracking and analytics, project and scene reminders, dark mode, and focus mode. Learn more here Cancel any time with no questions asked!

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