For story creators
Start one story that can survive many futures
You do not need to plot every branch. Give the crowd one vivid opening and an unresolved next moment; StoryTree keeps every continuation connected to that shared beginning.
Write your openingGive readers three things
- 1
Someone to follow
A person with a specific need, fear, promise, or responsibility.
- 2
Pressure right now
A change that makes waiting impossible and turns the scene into a decision.
- 3
Room to disagree
An open moment where several continuations could all feel believable.
A real opening
The Cartomancer's Last Hand
fantasy · 5 writers grew it
Under the old stone bridge, Mireille reads deaths for spare coppers, and her cards never lie. Tonight the river fog smells like iron. When she deals her own hand, the Drowned Queen stares up at her, the card that means your hour is near. Then the painted woman lifts her chin and steps right off the card. Wet hair, cold eyes, a real woman now. 'You dealt me,' she says. 'So sit. We play until dawn. Win, and you live.'See what readers made from it →
After you publish
Your shared opening
Readers add futures
The story becomes a tree