Scene Map: Scenes (Scenes/Story Beats)
March 5, 2026 vers. 2.0
Let's Begin
Use Scenes, Story Beats, or brief scene goal text to plan/map out and bible your Story, Novel, Book. After you write, before you write, or while writing.
Place Scenes, Story Beats, or brief scene goal text in your chapters to plan/map out your Story, Novel, Book. Drag and drop to refine your story. Click Write Icon to write Scenes, Story Beats.
Scenes/Story Beats can also be considered Sections in your story.
Edit Scenes/Story Beats to place synopsis, description, goal, beat, note text inside them, select highlight colors, tag/connect/associate them with Arcs/Filters/Tags, set target dates, set or upload images, and more.
What this Page Covers
Basics
A few things to get you rolling.
- Scenes, Story Beats, brief scene goals, are placed vertically inside the Chapters in the Scene Map work area.
- You can have unlimited Scenes, Story Beats, brief scene goals, and 10 scenes inside a chapter. If you happen to need more drop us a note.
- You can edit a Scene's, Story Beat's, brief scene goal's title, description/text, highlight color, tag/connect/associate story arcs/character arcs/filters/tags to a scene, create target dates, and other things.
- Move, order, reorder Scenes, Chapters, Story Beats - drag and drop them where you want.
- Tag/connect/associate Scenes, Story Beats with Story Arcs, Character Arcs, Filters, Custom User Story Tags inside their edit panel area to see custom story views with them.
- Filter/view what you see and work on from your story using the toolbar and the Filters and Tags Area located above the toolbar.
Get Started
Add/create, edit, remove, move/order/reorder Scenes, Story Beats -- Click their write icon.
Filter and view specific Scenes, Story Beats using the toolbar and the Filters Area above the toolbar.
Add/Create: Scenes/Story Beats
There are currently 2 ways to Add/Create a Scene/Story Beat in a chapter on the Scene Map.
1. From the chapters top area, select the Add New Scene-Beat icon.
This adds a new scene-beat to the bottom of the chapter.
2. Use your mouse to hover over or tap(touch) a scene-beat to display the add icons above and below it. Select the add icon in the position you want to add.
It will fill in a default title for the scene-beat, so you can keep track of it on the Scene Map, and ask if you want to change it.
Select the Add button to add a scene-beat to the chapter at that position or to cancel.
Edit: Scenes/Story Beats
There are currently 2 ways to Edit a Scene/Story Beat, and its information, title, highlight color, synopsis/description/beat/goal, story arcs, character arcs, tags, target date, and other things on the Scene Map.
1. Double click/double tap(touch) the scene-beat to open the Edit Panel.
2. Or use your mouse to hover over or tap(touch) the scene-beat to display the edit button icon, and select it.
Both will open the Edit Panel.
Changes made on the Edit Panel are automatically updated and saved for you.
Remove: Scenes/Story Beats
*Warning ...Remember: You will not be able to recover the scene/story beat or its scene map contents after it is removed. All text and items inside will be permanently removed.
So be sure to make a personal backup of any text/info/images etc... you'd like to save before removing it.
Remove a scene-beat by opening its Edit Panel and selecting the Delete button on top.
On the confirm 'Delete this Scene-Beat' popup click the 'Yes, delete it.' button to permanently remove the scene-beat.
*Warning ...Remember: You will not be able to recover the scene-beat or its scene map contents after it is removed. All text and items inside will be permanently removed.
So be sure to make a personal backup of any text/info/images etc... you'd like to save before removing it.
Move/Order/Reorder: Scenes/Story Beats
To reorder/move a scene/story beat and its contents to a different place in the Scene Map/Story Map:
Use your mouse to hover over or tap(touch) to select the scene-beat to display its drag/move icon found in its upper left corner.
Click and hold with your mouse or touch and hold(touch) the move icon to drag/move.
Drag and drop the scene-beat up or down in the current chapter or to a new place in a different chapter where you want it.
If the place/chapter where you want to move/drag and drop the scene-beat to is hidden off the viewing screen/area.
Drag/move the scene-beat to the edge of the screen in the direction you want to go and the screen will automatically scroll to allow you to drop/place it.
Changes made are automatically saved for you.
You can always reorder/move scenes-beats at any time, or move them to another chapter to try different things.
Note: Dropping a scene-beat outside of the Scene Map Work Area or outside of a chapter will return it to where it was. So when in doubt, drag the scene-beat out of the work area or outside of a chapter and it will return to its original location.
We use move/drag icons for scenes-beats because it's easier for users and it allows our software to work on all smart devices of any size, smart phones, tablets, laptops, desktops and to use on any operating system.
Write: Scenes/Story Beats
There are currently 2 ways to quick open the Write Area to write a Scene/Story Beat right from the Scene Map, during or after planning the Scene/Story Beat on the Scene Map.
1. Use your mouse to hover over or tap(touch) the scene-beat to display the write button icon, and select it.
2. Double click/double tap(touch) the scene-beat to open its Edit Panel and select the Write Scene button.
Both will open the Write Area with the Scene/Story Beat open in the writing app to write in.
Changes made on the Scene/Story Beat in the Write Area are automatically updated and saved for you.
Limits
We know of some limits within the Scenes-Beats area, that we will be addressing with future updates.
We have updated and added automated external/viewable scene position/location information on Scenes-Beats in the Scene Map, just released in this version. We also currently show scene and chapter position/location information in the Scenes-Beats Edit panels for quick convenience.
We will be adding another new way to move and reorder Scenes-Beats in their edit panels to be released in the next version.
Storyfyre is growing daily, let us know what we can include, change, update. We appreciate your help.