Features and Tools


One Stop for Writers is a powerhouse library of writing resources built to elevate storytelling. Our goal is to provide everything a writer needs to create strong fiction so your time is spent crafting stories rather than searching for help. Here’s an overview of our site features.

A Description Thesaurus Collection

Unlike any other thesaurus database out there, this collection helps you tackle description in these specific areas:

Fans of the best-selling reference The Emotion Thesaurus, along with The Positive Trait, Negative Trait, Urban Setting, Rural Setting and Emotional Wound Thesaurus volumes will be happy to know that these books are part of our collection. Some have even been expanded beyond their book counterparts!

Description Thesaurus Collection

Character Builder

This hyper-intelligent tool integrates One Stop’s extensive thesaurus collection, idea generators, and other resources, allowing you to build deeply layered characters in a fraction of the time. Whether you’re a plotter or a pantser, you can use the Character Builder to

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Story Maps

Structuring a novel isn’t always easy; in fact, it’s often a hair-pulling venture that can leave writers more confused than ever. Our story maps tool demystifies structure by

Story Maps

Scene Maps and Timelines

While story maps help with plotting the overall story, scene maps and timelines provide structure at the scene level. As writers have different preferences, we offer a variety of options to suit any planning style.

Scene Maps and Timelines

Worldbuilding Surveys

Many elements work together to forge a successful story, and failure can result when any one of them is mishandled. Take the development of your story’s world, for instance. Whether events take place in a real location or one that exists in your imagination, planning is essential for your character’s environment to be fully realized. Our Worldbuilding Tool simplifies this process with a collection of surveys that help writers organize the details. Surveys can be used to build Solar Systems, Human-Inhabited Planets, Alien-Inhabited Planets, Realms, and Cities, Towns, And Villages.

But there’s more to a world than its locations. Once those areas are in place, they’ll need inhabitants—human, animal, and otherworldly—to populate them. To this end, we also have surveys to help with the creation of Creatures And Aliens (both subhuman and intelligent), People, and Groups, Factions, And Organizations, as well as any Sacred Or Magical Objects that may be important to them.

To help out with existing settings, we also have a Real-World Cities, Towns, And Villages survey that can be used for contemporary, historical, dystopian, and urban fantasy and paranormal stories.

Worldbuilding Survey

Idea Generator

Unlike other generators that spit out clunky story ideas using a random person, place, and thing, One Stop’s generator provides specific suggestions meant to enhance a writer’s individual story. Bookmark promising ideas with a click and access them through My Workspace, your private writing desk at One Stop.

Idea Generator

Templates and Worksheets

Our custom worksheets and templates can be used to help writers build realistic characters, create settings that resonate with symbolic and emotional meanings, and more.

Templates and Worksheets

Tutorials

Writers are always looking to grow along their journey and expand their knowledge of the craft. Our tutorials can help bring sophistication and freshness to your prose.

My Workspace

Every writer needs a private workspace! Use yours to

My Workspace

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Testimonial

Michael Hauge

Story Maps is a fantastic tool to help writers develop a more solid, powerful story using my Six Stage Plot Structure as its foundation, and includes ideas on story structure and character development from other sources as well. It’s a remarkably useful tool for novelists, screenwriters, speakers, and marketers.

~ Michael Hauge, Hollywood script consultant, story expert, and best-selling author of Writing Screenplays That Sell and Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds

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