Scene Card
A scene card is a beat-level plan for a single scene: its goal, the conflict, the turn, and the outcome. It is a planning artifact, not polished prose, so it runs a shorter machine focused on getting the beats right.
A scene card is a beat-level plan for a single scene: its goal, the conflict, the turn, and the outcome. It is a planning artifact, not polished prose, so it runs a shorter machine focused on getting the beats right.
Scene Card is a document type in the Novel content type. Open the Novel page to see every document type it offers.
The stages it moves through
Every document moves through the same shape: Ideation, Outline, Draft, Revision, Final edit. After Ideation you can move back and forth freely — jump to whichever stage the work needs.
On top of that shared shape, this document type adds its own stages:
- Scene Brief — an extra stage this document type adds after Ideation.
Because it is a planning or reference document rather than a polished draft, it skips Revision and Final edit — the machine reconnects around the gap so you still move cleanly from stage to stage.
Where it belongs
This document type is part of the Novel content type. The content-type page lists its full document roster, the coaches it recommends, and what each stage costs.