WHAT A SUBSCRIPTION DOES
One press of Review.
Your whole story, in view.
Understory reads every scene you’ve changed, then looks at the book as a whole. This is what’s waiting when it finishes, all of it drawn from your own pages. Most of the examples come from The Last Letter, the demo story on our front page.
QUESTIONSContradictions, caught before a reader finds them.
Two passages that can’t both be true, a name that might be two people, a thread that never pays off. Every question quotes its evidence.
Ten years ago, or eight?“Ten years earlier, Theo had promised…” against “You kept it for eight years”
LOREA story bible that keeps itself.
Every character, place and thing your pages establish, each fact kept with the sentence it came from. Keep it as canon, or take it out.
Theo · Clara’s brotherPromised June he would wait for her answer · Chapter 2
STORY ARCSEvery thread on one timeline.
Main plot, subplots, characters, relationships and mysteries, each followed from setting up to resolved, or left hanging.
Theo keeps his promiseCharacter arc · Rising
TIME ORDERWhen it happens, not just when it’s told.
Switch from story order to time order and watch a flashback drop into place. A scene it can’t date waits, rather than being guessed at.
An old promiseTold in chapter 2 · happens first
PLOTThe story so far, chapter by chapter.
A summary of every chapter and who’s in it, so you can find your place in a long draft in seconds.
Clara finds an unsigned letter on the kitchen table.Chapter 1
SCENESWho, where and what, in every scene.
Each scene as a card: who’s in it, where it takes place, and what it establishes.
The visitorClara, June, Theo · the kitchen · that afternoon
ACROSS A SERIESBook three remembers book one.
In a series, Lore, story arcs and questions span every book, volume or episode. Something settled in the first is still checked in the last.
“Her eyes, grey as the harbour.”Contradicts Lore · green in Book 1, chapter 4
