How to outline a book
An outline is just the shape of your story laid out before you write it, chapter by chapter. Most books move through the same three broad movements: a beginning that sets up the world and the central problem, a middle that raises the stakes through rising complications and a midpoint turn, and an end that builds to a climax and a resolution. The generator above turns that arc into concrete chapters. Choose your genre, set a chapter count, and every chapter is mapped to a specific story beat with a one-line note on what it should accomplish, so you always know what happens next and why. Treat it as scaffolding: keep the beats that fit, move the ones that do not, and you have a working plan instead of a blank page.