An interactive story planning template for your next scene.

Begin with a scene you can enter.

Start with one location, two fictional adults and a reason to interact. A map and an unexpected ticket create a question; a secret society and three betrayals can wait.

Decide whether you want another passage, a conversation or a new direction. The worksheet prepares writing notes. It does not create a branching game, generate a story or save anything to your account.

An eight-field story worksheet.

Keep the headings and replace the bracketed notes. The text remains usable without the optional form. Download the plain-text worksheet and completed example to keep an editable copy.

The blank worksheet

INTERACTIVE STORY PLANNING WORKSHEET

1. Premise and place:
[One location, one event, and a reason to interact.]

2. Adult cast and my chat role:
[Fictional adult names and ages. Who would I be in the conversation?]

3. Genre and tone:
[Kind of story / feeling of this scene.]

4. Point of view and language:
[I, you, or they / narrator / story language.]

5. Length and focus:
[Short, Medium, Long, or Max / one immediate focus.]

6. Established facts:
[Three details already present in the premise or story.]

7. Unanswered question:
[Something the scene has not explained yet.]

8. Next choice and first line:
[Two possible actions. Choose one and write an answerable opening.]

A completed contemporary mystery

Leah and Mina are original fictional adults written for this guide. They are not existing YourBD catalog characters. The example is a proposed opening, not the result of a live product test.

INTERACTIVE STORY PLANNING WORKSHEET — COMPLETED EXAMPLE

1. Premise and place:
A donated map arrives at a city archive just before closing. A fresh transit ticket is tucked inside its old envelope.

2. Adult cast and my chat role:
Leah Chen, 31, is the archivist. Mina Ortiz, 29, delivers the donation. My chat role: the adult courier who brought the envelope.

3. Genre and tone:
Genre: Mystery. Tone: Neutral, with curiosity rather than immediate danger.

4. Point of view and language:
First person, from Mina’s perspective. Story language: English.

5. Length and focus:
Short. Stay at the archive desk and examine the ticket before leaving the building.

6. Established facts:
The envelope contains a donated map. The ticket is dated today. Leah has not identified who added it.

7. Unanswered question:
Why did someone put today’s ticket inside an envelope kept with an old map?

8. Next choice and first line:
Possible actions: compare the station name with the map, or ask about the donation record. Choose the map first.
Opening: “The ticket is from today. Does this station appear anywhere on the map?”

Turn the notes into deliberate story settings.

In the YourBD story creator, write your premise in the idea box. Choose the available Genre, Tone, Point of view, Length and Story language settings you want to control. Some settings also offer automatic choices.

Mystery describes the problem; Neutral describes its presentation. First person makes Mina the narrator. Short expresses your intended scope without promising an exact word count or result.

Established facts and unanswered questions are notes to adapt into your idea, not separate product controls. There is no worksheet import button. Copying starts no generation; account access, allowances and purchase requirements appear in the product.

One event, three points of view.

Perspective changes who tells the scene. These authored examples describe the same visible actions:

First person: I

I place the envelope on the archive desk. Leah turns the ticket toward the light.

Second person: you

You place the envelope on the archive desk. Leah turns the ticket toward the light.

Third person: they

Mina places the envelope on the archive desk. Leah turns the ticket toward the light.

The controls label these “I do...”, “You do...” and “They do...”. They concern story prose, not a global chat setting. In conversation, describe your own move and leave the other character an answer.

Continue the prose or enter the conversation.

Continue requests another prose passage. Current story continuation and editing require Premium and check the account’s available allowance. They do not promise flawless continuity.

Chat with character opens a different route. YourBD asks for your role in up to 160 characters. Here, “the adult courier who brought the envelope” establishes a connection without inventing a shared history. The product may ask for further character details.

Keep your role consistent with the story you read. Investigate one unresolved detail in your first line. A chat role begins a conversation; it does not request another prose chapter.

Let the next result change the plan.

If Leah identifies the station, add it to established facts. Keep who inserted the ticket unanswered until the scene explains it. A guess is not something both characters know.

For longer conversations, use the scene recap guide. For another premise, browse published story openings. Keep essential notes yourself; this worksheet is neither an account backup nor automatic memory.