Book planning workspace
Chronicle Loom
A collaborative writing workspace where novelists and roleplayers build stories together, then turn shared scenes into finished books. Keep chapters, worldbuilding, and backups with the manuscript.
Workspace
Write Together.
Compete Together. Experimental
Create or join community contests powered by Chronicle Loom's unique writing modes. Unraveled, Duet Weave, Tug-of-War, Braided Threads, and normal writing challenges.
Create a writing challenge, attach a prompt, choose a mode, and invite other writers to join.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers about the Book Planning Workspace and Unraveled.
Login
Sign in to unlock cloud sync and keep your books tied to your account on every device.
Recover account
If you forget your password, send yourself a reset email from here and finish the reset through your email inbox.
Chronicle Loom uses email recovery for cloud accounts. The older recovery code fields stay here only for the local fallback system.
Draft on the go
Choose a scene and start writing.
Continue Writing
Create a project to begin.
Project
Chapters
Chapter Editor
Scene Editor
Reading Order
This view hides notes and shows chapters and scenes the way a reader would experience them.
Book Preview
Chapter Map
Scenes, monsters, species, and playable races can be attached or detached here.
Scene & Lore Deck
Reattach scenes and lore at any time.
Plot Board
Keep the spine of the story visible without mixing it into the draft.
Reverse Outline
Build a structure map from the draft you already wrote.
Prompt Vault
A collection of twists, rules, and mysteries. Let inspiration find you.
Timeline
Timeline Editor
World Map
Location Editor
Spells
Spell Editor
Citation Manager
Track nonfiction sources, link them to the manuscript, and export references.
Citation Editor
Monster List
Monster Editor
Species List
Species Editor
Playable Races
Race Editor
Character List
Character Editor
Character Relationship Web
See who is connected to whom based on the relationship notes you already keep.
Find in Project
Search across chapters, scenes, monsters, species, races, characters, goals, plot, timeline, locations, spells, and notes.
Goal Tracker
Goal Editor
The Spine — Living Story Summary
One line per scene, drawn from each scene's notes. Keep your scene notes current and The Spine keeps the synopsis current.
A scene with empty notes shows its title as a placeholder. Edit a scene's notes in the Outline tab to update this summary.
Kill Your Darlings Vault
Deleted scene and chapter text lands here instead of vanishing. Restore a snippet, or let the vault surface a discarded line that might fit your current scene.
Suggested Darling
One of your stronger discarded sentences, in case it fits the scene you're writing now. Lines are ranked by an offline craft score — rhythm, concrete detail, strong verbs, no filler — never by AI. The score only decides what to show you first; the judgment stays yours.
Sensory Deprivation Mode
Blanks out everything except the sentence you are writing. Every other sentence (split on . ! ?) blurs into shadow but stays there — move the cursor back and it sharpens again, so nothing is ever locked away from you. Your words save into the chosen chapter as you write. Press Esc to exit.
What Chronicle Loom Is
Chronicle Loom takes an idea through planning, drafting, worldbuilding, and collaboration while keeping the project backed up in the cloud.
Start with a small win
Create a project, name your book, add one chapter, and create one scene. You can explore the rest after your first piece of writing is saved.
Choose your workflow
Outline deliberately, discover the story while drafting, build a story bible, or use a focused Unraveled session when you need pressure.
Your book stays yours
Normal drafting autosaves normally. Unraveled sessions are isolated from regular chapters and scenes, so experimental runs cannot overwrite your book.
Build with other writers
Find writers, send friend requests, chat, join contests, and enter shared writing rooms when you want another person in the scene.
Before You Begin
Why use Chronicle Loom?
Keep the manuscript beside its working parts: chapters, scenes, a story bible, maps, recovery tools, focused writing modes, and collaboration.
What makes it different?
Unraveled gives you four isolated pressure modes. Saved run manuscripts, collaborative story mechanics, The Spine, Kill Your Darlings recovery, and worldbuilding tools keep the work moving into the book.
Do I own my content?
Yes. All original content you create belongs to you: books, poems, scenes, characters, settings, prompts, notes, manuscripts, and other creative work. Chronicle Loom does not claim ownership or authorship of your creations. The final Terms and Privacy pages should document this promise formally.
Is Chronicle Loom free?
The current beta is free to use. Final pricing has not been set. If paid plans or limits are introduced, they should be announced clearly before they affect existing users.
How much storage do I get?
There is no final public storage allowance yet. Text projects are lightweight, but covers, backups, and future media storage may have separate limits. The app should show the current limit before a user uploads or saves large files.
How are projects kept safe?
Normal drafts autosave separately from Unraveled, cloud sync ties projects to an account, rolling backups protect earlier versions, and manual exports give you an independent copy. Always keep an occasional downloaded backup outside the browser.
What if I lose my account?
Use the Recover Account flow with the email address on the account. Password-reset email delivery depends on the configured email provider. Once access is restored, cloud projects can be restored from the account.
Can a deleted account be restored?
Do not assume it can. Account deletion may remove authentication access and associated cloud data. Contact support immediately, and keep downloaded backups because restoration depends on retention settings and whether the deletion has completed.
Your Chronicle Loom Toolkit
Outline and Draft
Create chapters and scenes, write synopses, attach scenes to chapters, draft prose, and keep private notes that never appear in the reader's copy.
Preview and Reader's Copy
Preview the book in reading order, inspect a table of contents, and export clean prose without notes, scene labels, or planning markers.
Organize and Find
Reorder chapters, move scenes between chapters, search the whole project, and locate a character, monster, goal, spell, or plot beat quickly.
Story Bible
Use Plot, Characters, Planning, Monsters, Species, Playable Races, locations, spells, timelines, maps, and relationship notes to keep the world consistent.
The Spine
The Spine turns one-line scene notes into a living synopsis of the full book. Keep notes current and the running summary updates with them.
Kill Your Darlings
Deleted chapters, scenes, and worldbuilding entries go to a recovery vault instead of vanishing immediately. Restore them whenever you change your mind.
Focus and Progress Tools
Goals and milestones
Set word or completion targets, track progress, and celebrate important milestones such as your first 10,000 words or finishing a draft.
Sensory Deprivation
Write with the rest of the interface hidden. Only the sentence under your cursor stays sharp; the rest blur into shadow without ever being locked or lost.
Prompt Vault
Draw a random prompt, skip to another, or copy one into a new scene when you have no opening yet.
Writing statistics
See project words, chapter and scene counts, session time, today's words, streaks, reading time, and writing history.
Maps and worldbuilding
Place locations and events on an interactive map, record spells and lore, and use visual references while planning the story.
Fonts, themes, and mobile layout
Adjust the reading experience, switch themes, and use a phone-friendly layout with reachable actions and dedicated mobile navigation.
The Unraveled Modes Experimental
Unraveled is a separate creative pressure system. It never replaces or overwrites your normal Chronicle Loom drafts. A run saves only when its rules are successfully completed.
Solo Unraveled
Choose a timer and word goal. Keep typing through the run. If you stop too long, the temporary attempt fades and is erased; surviving creates a saved manuscript checkpoint.
Braided Threads
Each writer owns a parallel storyline. Shared sprint progress fills tension until the threads are forced to meet at a scripted checkpoint that everyone must reconcile.
Duet Weave
Two writers share one scene in split panes. Each person controls only their own character's point of view while updates appear in real time.
Tug-of-War
Two writers or teams write toward opposing outcomes. Their word contributions pull a shared meter, and the direction at the end determines the story's result.
Pressure rules
Timers, word goals, turn timers, idle grace periods, fading text, checkpoint thresholds, and failure rules can be tuned for the selected mode.
Saved manuscripts
Successful runs are stored separately from your book. Open a saved run later, read it, edit it, delete it, or begin another run from its material.
Social, Contests, and Community Experimental beta
Find writers
Search by username or display name, send and cancel friend requests, accept requests, and open direct chats with friends.
Community Contests
Create public challenges with a prompt, mode, word goal, and sign-up list. Choose a normal writing event or one of the four Unraveled modes.
Discord community
Use the Discord link in Social for feedback, beta testing, contest recruitment, bug reports, feature requests, and community discussion.
Safety and moderation
Chat includes moderation filters and reporting tools. Never share passwords, recovery codes, or private book material in public conversations.
Protecting Your Work
Autosave
Normal Chronicle Loom editing saves independently as you work. This behavior is not affected by Unraveled failures.
Cloud sync
Signing in connects projects to your account so they can be restored across devices. Sync conflicts should be reviewed instead of blindly overwriting either version.
Backups and restore points
Create downloadable backups, use rolling backups, restore a previous version, and keep an exported copy before major changes.
Best practice
Before a major update or migration, create a backup and verify that you can restore it. Keep at least one backup outside the browser.
Welcome to Chronicle Loom
This is the quick tour for where things are and what each major area is for.
Outline
Build your book title, chapters, scenes, chapter text, scene text, and private notes here.
Preview and Organize
Use Preview to read the book in order and Organize to move scenes or reattach them to different chapters.
Story Bible
Plot, Characters, Planning, Monsters, Species, and Playable Races hold your worldbuilding and reference material.
Goals and Find
Track targets with Goals and search across your project from Find in Project.
Unraveled Safety
Unraveled is isolated from your normal saved drafts. It creates its own Unraveled manuscripts and does not overwrite regular chapter or scene writing.
Demo Projects
Use these sample books to explore Chronicle Loom without risking your real work.
Example Project
A restored all-purpose sample with chapters, scenes, goals, and planning notes.
Fantasy Quest Demo
A fuller sample with characters, monsters, map pins, and plot beats.
Frequently Asked Questions
Good to know
Cloud sync
Signing in ties your books to your account so you can restore them on other devices.
Backups
Rolling backups help protect your work, and you can still download manual backups whenever you want.
Realtime sprints
Writing Sprints with Friends live inside Unraveled. One person hosts, others join with the room code.
Website Changelog
0 entriesHow we use it
We store each update here so every website release has a small paper trail. Add a new entry whenever the site changes.
This list comes from CHANGELOG.json so it stays with the website code and survives regular updates.
Appearance
Choose a light or dark look. Your preference is remembered on this device.
Profile
Choose how other writers see you in Chronicle Loom, especially inside Writing Sprints with Friends.
Sign in to set your public writing name or change your email.
Branding
Cloud sync
Save the app data to your own Chronicle Loom account so the same book appears on your computer and phone. This keeps the book safe even when the website code changes.
Sign in with the same Chronicle Loom email on each device and the same workspace will stay in sync automatically.
Login and recovery live in the top Login tab.
Plans and billing
Free planChoose a plan and pay securely through Stripe or PayPal. Chronicle Loom never handles or stores card numbers.
Scribe includes expanded image storage, deeper history, achievement showcase, recap export, curated themes, and ad-free writing.
Free access includes all Unraveled modes, unlimited books, core planning tools, cloud sync, contests, streaks, the recovery vault, co-writing, and basic chat/social.
Sign in to start a subscription.
Report a bug
Tell us what went wrong without including passwords, recovery codes, payment details, or private book text. Reports include basic technical context so we can investigate beta issues.
Backup and export
Every save writes to the cloud when it can, and keeps a local cache plus rolling backups so a refresh or crash is less risky. Importing a Chronicle Loom JSON file also creates a backup snapshot automatically; you do not need to click Create Backup a second time.
Recovery
If the cloud is unavailable, the app falls back to the local cache and can restore from the latest backup automatically.
Rolling checkpoints
Local checkpoints appear here. Refresh to include cloud checkpoints.
Version history
The first saved version stays as your original draft. Every later save creates a new restore point so updates never overwrite the beginning.
Sync tips
Use the same sync key on every device. If you want another private book, give it a different key.
UNRAVELED
Write or watch it burn.
Writing Sprints with Friends
Make a shared room, invite friends with the room code, and start the same Unraveled run together. Word counts stay visible, then saved stories can be shared and judged for story quality.
Sign in to use live group sprints.
BRAIDED THREADS
Braided Threads — parallel storylines that converge when collective tension reaches its breaking point.
Braided Room
Create a separate room for this braid and send the code to your writers. This room is not connected to Solo Unraveled.
Sign in to invite writers to a Braided Room.
Your private goal
Shared destination
Shared event
Shared tension
0 / 4 sprints
Your sprint
0 / 250 words
Threads
3 storylines are weaving together.
Read the Parallel Threads
DUET WEAVE
Two perspectives, one moment. Each writer can edit only their own character's side.
Duet Room
Create a private room for exactly two writers, then send the room code to your partner.
Sign in to invite your writing partner.
TUG-OF-WAR
The writing decides what happens. Each side pulls the story toward its desired outcome.
Tug Room
Create a room for exactly two writers or teams, then share the code.
Sign in to invite the opposing writer.
Saved Manuscripts
Begin writing...
Keep writing to hold the page together.
Live room
Solo run active.
The Flame Died
Your words faded to ash.
0 characters lost to Unraveled.
Saved to the Shelf
Your session survived and is now a permanent Unraveled manuscript.
0 words saved.
Find Writers
Search by username or display name, send friend requests, and build your writing circle.
Sign in to search for other writers.
Social
Chronicle Loom Community
DiscordJoin the Chronicle Loom community to share feedback, report bugs, meet other writers, and follow development updates.
Community rules
Applies in Chronicle LoomChat Rooms Beta feature
0 roomsOpen a direct room from your friend list. Toxic or abusive messages are blocked before sending when they match your moderation list.
Roleplay Hub Open forum
Find a world already in motion. Read its boundaries, choose your entrance, and add the next meaningful beat when you are ready.
Sign in to browse public roleplays.
Create a public roleplay
Story Threads
Select a public roleplay to read its threads.
Room boundaries will appear here.
Presence & boundaries Beta
Presence keeps track of who is in the selected roleplay. Storytelling happens asynchronously in threads; this area does not use a live shared editor.
Sign in to create or join a roleplay room.
Write Together.
Compete Together.
Create or join community contests powered by Chronicle Loom's unique writing modes. Unraveled, Duet Weave, Tug-of-War, Braided Threads, and normal writing challenges.
Create a writing challenge, attach a prompt, choose a mode, and invite other writers to join.
Chat
Select a friend or room to start chatting.
Sign in to use chat.