Watch a novel grow

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Watch a novel grow—from scene 1 to 54

A manuscript filling in, one scene at a time, compressed into a few seconds. The clearest answer I have to the question people ask most: what does this actually look like while you are writing?

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JUST RELEASED

The Radial Timeline website is live

We are live! The launch includes v1 of the Community section, with matching plugin updates that bring robust gated and tiered privacy and sharing options. Explore the new interactive Official Radial Timeline Genres Tree, plus live feeds, project pages, and author pages.

IN THIS ENTRY

What's new

See where a subplot actually lives

Subplot rings can now be laid out two ways, switched with the alignment chip at the left of the mode row. Fill spreads each subplot's scenes evenly across its act. Sequence puts every scene at its true position in the full manuscript, aligned with the outer ring — so you can see where a thread enters, where it goes dormant, and how the threads interleave.

Parts are yours to place

Parts are now explicit markers you set yourself, the same workflow as chapters: right-click a scene and choose Set part, with an optional title. P placards mark the boundaries on the Narrative ring, the PDF template carries part titles and epigraphs, and Act goes back to being purely narrative structure.

Your writing sessions, now counted

Radial Timeline now provides session tracking (including auto-mode) as you draft and edit scenes — a running tally of the writing time you put in, so your authoring momentum is easy to see and keep up. And you can share on the community if you so choose.

Report a bug without leaving your manuscript

The bug icon now opens a small, draggable report window right inside Radial Timeline. Add a quick description and a screenshot, and it carries your version and platform details to GitHub or your email client. It's in both the timeline and the Inquiry view.

FROM THE WORKSHOP

Start in Zero-Draft Mode

Resist the urge to edit while you draft. Zero-Draft Mode captures pending changes in a dialog—storing them in your scene Pending Edits—instead of opening the note, so momentum stays with the story. Switch it on in Settings before your next writing session.

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Shape what comes next

Every release is steered by writers using the tool. The Pro questionnaire asks what you are working on, how you write, and what is getting in your way. The better I understand your manuscript and your process, the better I can build Radial Timeline around it.

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