~ Using StoryCraft Classic, your basic story idea easily becomes a concise Story Concept that will form the solid foundation on which you’ll build your story.

~ Once you have your Story Concept, StoryCraft Classic leads you almost effortlessly towards the decision of which Story Category (action, character, or epic) to use to develop precisely the kind of story you most need and want to write.

~ StoryCraft Classic identifies 18 basic patterns, or Types, of stories that all the great myths and literary classics fall under, and results in a clear sense of the outline of your story — based upon your particular choice of Story Type — throughout the entire story-creation process.

~ StoryCraft Classic guides you through the creation of your story’s main characters and their helpers as well as the worlds that they populate, prompting you to describe the precise elements necessary for main characters of stories of your Concept, Category, and Type.

~ StoryCraft Classic offers built-in help instructions, accessible from every screen, that instantly describe the desired task.

~ StoryCraft Classic allows you to brainstorm and develop unique plot twists at each Story Creation Step.

~ StoryCraft Classic allows you to work on understanding and resolving any part of the story, wherever and whenever you have a thought, an idea, or a difficulty.

~ At every stage of your story, StoryCraft Classic writer’s software promotes inspiration as it gently suggests the direction of your story. (Use your own favorite word processor; or, with the StoryCraft Ultimate Edition — check it out here — you’ll have the most powerful story processor/word processor/story manager in which to write your story.)

~ What you write with the assistance of StoryCraft Classic develops naturally into logically complete novels and screenplays.

~ StoryCraft Classic helps turn the two tasks of writing and revision into a seamlessly integrated process by giving you the information you need to know to revise your story within each step of the story-creation process, from beginning to end.

~ StoryCraft Classic allows you to work with any outside stories, so that you can easily re-design stories that you had previously been working on, transforming almost magically old notes, story ideas, and undeveloped stories into near-perfectly developed stories, ready for word processing.

~ StoryCraft Classic has been carefully designed and refined so that even the most novice of writers can understand clearly and quickly every task (and yet also even the most advanced of writers find its approach sophisticated, reliable, and practical).

~ StoryCraft Classic is more than just a story-writing tool; it is also a sophisticated complete course in writing that utilizes the Jarvis Method, the system of fiction writing that’s the accepted standard among university writing programs around the world.

~ StoryCraft Classic understands intuitively how you write because its system is based on the way classic literature and great myths have been written since the dawn of civilization.