Product Walk Through
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Generating Your Plot

• Open the program to an empty plot (or open a saved plot).
• Click the Story Generator button on the toolbar or select Story Generator in the Tools menu.
• In the Story Generator, fill in the names of the Hero, Bad Guy and Love Interest and select a story structure (3 Acts, 4 Acts, 8 Sequences or No Structure).
• Clicking on the Generate Story button will automatically fill the nine boxes in the scrolling area to the right.
• Read each of the generated plot points and check the checkbox next to those you like and want to keep. You can edit the plot point or just type in your own plot point if none of the generated plot points work for your story.
• Every time you click the Generate Story button, the program fills the boxes without a check mark with a new generated plot point.
• When all the checkboxes are filled with check marks, click either the Done: Create Full Plot or Done: Create Basic Plot button.
• You will return to the main plot screen. QuickStory 5 has automatically generated a complete plot with the tree heirarchy and your plot points appearing in the right box. Click through the tree to see where each of your plot points ended up in the structure.

• The first thing you'll notice about the generated structure is that each tree item is labeled with things like "First Turning Point: 1-2 Scenes" and "Post Turn: 1-2 Scenes." These are designed to help guide you through developing the rest of your plot. For example, "Post Turn: 1-2 Scenes" is the period after a major turning point and should consist of one or two scenes.
• Add items to the tree and label them with your scenes to fill out your plot.
• If you don't need to create an entire plot but need help with a single scene or plot point, the Plot Point Generator will give you options to choose from. This is a great way to make sure every step in your story is what you want and what your story needs.
  • Simply select a tree item and click the "Plot Point Generator" button on the toobar or select "Plot Point Generator" from the Tools menu.
  • In the Plot Point Generator, click the button on the left that corresponds with the point in the story you need an idea for. Everytime you click one of the buttons, an new idea appears in the box on the right.
  • When you find a new plot point, select "Okay" and the new plot point will replace the old plot point in your structure on the main plot screen.
• In the right-side box, add details, information or dialogue for each of the scenes. You have full editing features (cut, copy, paste) and full text formatting features (bold, italic, font, underline, strikeout and more).
• QuickStory makes it easy to organize and re-organize your plot. Simply drag and drop a tree item/scene and the contents in the right-side box associated with that tree item will move with it.

• Clicking on the little notepad icon on the toolbar or selecting Plot Pad on the Tools menu will give you Plot Pad. QuickStory 5 automatically combines all the information in all of the tree items and formats it for you into one complete story structure.
• Plot Pad is a fully functioning word processor with advanced editing features, like font, font size, color, bold, italics, underline and a lot more.
• You can print your story from Plot Pad.
• You can also save your character as a Rich Text Format file (.rtf), which can be read by any word processing program for further editing, or can be opened by Plot Pad to be edited at a later time.
• Or simply cut and paste your story into your favorite word processor.

• Plot Points Editor
  • Here's where you can edit and change the plot points that are generated by the program. If you have a favorite plot point that isn't included with the program or you just want to edit the way a plot point is phrased, you can make the changes here. All your changes will remain for all future stories you create with QuickStory 5. This allows you to customize QuickStory 5 to develop with you as a writer. Other programs don't allow you to edit the inner workings of the program like QuickStory 5.
• Integrated Spell Checker
  • In the midst of creating incredible stories, sometimes it's tough to keep the spelling perfect. This feature allows you to check your spelling.
  • Add words you commonly use.
• Sample Plot
  • Go to Help/Sample Plot to open a fully developed plot. This is a great way to see what you can do quickly with QuickStory 5. See the Help file for more information.
• Extensive help files provide instant online program help. You can search quickly for information using Find, Contents and Index.
• Adjusts to resolution. Whether you're using 640x480 or 800x600 or higher, the program will adjust to your settings.

• Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
  
• At least 16MB RAM
  
• 5MB free hard disk space
  

Works with any screen resolution or screen size. Does not require an Internet connection.

Currently, there is no Mac version. However, some users have had luck running the PC version on Macintosh with a Windows emulator installed.

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