A "Story Templates" manager plugin for novelyst
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A novelyst plugin for managing Markdown “Story Templates”.
If novelyst is installed, the setup script auto-installs the novelyst_templates plugin in the novelyst plugin directory.
The plugin adds a Story Templates entry to the novelyst Tools menu, and a Template plugin Online Help entry to the Help menu.
You can open the submenu with Tools > Story Templates.
This loads the story structure from a Markdown template file.
This saves the story structure to a Markdown template file.
This opens the templates folder with the OS file manager, so you can manage and edit the templates.
In novelyst, you can define stages of your story structure model with “Todo” scenes that are tagged with “stage”. novelyst_templates faciliates the reuse of story structures.
Only “Todo” scenes with the “stage” tag are exported as stages.
The Story Template Markdown file defines such a structure with headings and ordinary text.
The first level heading begins with #
, followed by a space and a stage title.
The second level heading begins with ##
, followed by a space and a stage title.
Any text under a heading is used as a description for the element generated from the heading.
# ACT 1
Setup
## Inciting Incident
Also called "catalyst" or "call to adventure".
This sets the protagonist in motion.
## Plot Point 1
"Point of no return": The protagonist engages with the action
the inciting incident has created.
# ACT 2
Confrontation
## Midpoint
The main turning point. A significant event, changing the
development of things from good to bad, or vice versa.
## Plot Point 2
The aftermath of the Midpoint crisis.
What changes the protagonist from "passenger" to "driver".
# ACT 3
Resolution
## Climax
The final moment of the story's conflict.
This file generates the following structure in an empty project:
This is Open Source software, and the novelyst_templates plugin is licensed under GPLv3. See the GNU General Public License website for more details, or consult the LICENSE file.