This may never have been done before and so be unique to The Writer's Interface. There are 51 Event Types in The Writer's Interface. As we see from the screen shot, each event type is defined or described. This helps you, the writer, understand how to put characters into interactions with each other to generate story.

The Writer's Interface does not take the view that fiction characters are the same as live, human personalities. Writing craft books and software err in having you build a profile of a character as if they were a human being, what do the eat, where do they live, are they happy or unhappy, and so on? Don't think of your fiction character as a human being but as a story function. Only include story-relevant characteristics in your characters. You create a character and a character response. How does this character respond to certain events or actions, and how is that part of your story?

An Event here stands also for an Action. The Action creates the Event, whether from another character or from the environment. Action might be the better term, but we can't change this title in WriteItNow 3. Note that WriteItNow has a date generating function. This dating of your story-events will then lead you to a chart that shows a graph of the events happening when.

In novel writing your sequence of over fifty to one hundred and fifty events are the same as scenes, which make up Chapters, and Acts, if doing a play. Thus you play events in interactions with each other, such as contrasting events. Let's see? Shall we make this a Challenge Scene or a Chance Happening Scene, and why in terms of story development?

Note that all events are defined, such as Actions above. This helps you, the writer, see the significance of the event or action in terms of generating story. You want to have this understanding of story-action since story-action is one of the essentials of telling story.

Note also that WriteItNow gives you two interesting charts to help keep you organized and aware of your story development. At the top of the right column is a Charts Tab. Click there and see all the events of your story listed in their order as an Events Chart. These events are really your scenes. Thus you see the sequence of scenes and when they start and end or overlap even. The other chart is the Characters Chart which yields interesting results. As a writer you can keep referring to these charts for overviews and interactions of characters and events. You can click on a chart item and go right to its original text page. Neat! What The Writer's Interface adds to this WriteItNow function is the list of Characters and Events that you will get nowhere else in a book or software.