Your first stop. Finds the architecture type that fits your story in 10 minutes.
Most writers arrive at GriotsWell knowing what they want to write but not knowing how to structure it. The Idea Wizard solves that first. It is not a plotting tool. It does not ask you to plan your story. It asks you about your story concept — what it feels like, what it's about, how you imagine it moving — and then tells you which of the 9 architecture types it belongs to.
It finds your architecture. Everything else follows from that.
Not a full outline — a concept. What is the story about? What's the central tension? How do you imagine it moving? Short answers. This takes about 5 minutes.
Does your story resolve or complete a cycle? Does it move forward or spiral inward? Is there an antagonist, or does tension come from somewhere else? These aren't trick questions — they're architectural ones.
The wizard identifies which of the 9 architecture types best fits what you described — and explains why. You get a plain-English explanation of how that architecture works and what it means for your story.
From your result, you can explore the architecture hub page, launch the matching Plotting Tool, browse the World Wizards for that architecture type, or re-run the wizard with a different concept angle.
The wizard's job is orientation. It answers: given the story you want to tell, which structural family does it belong to? That answer changes everything — it tells you which tools to use, which traditions to study, and what your story needs architecturally to work.
The questions the wizard asks are genuinely generative. Many writers find that working through the wizard clarifies their concept in ways they didn't expect — not because the wizard tells them what to write, but because the architectural questions force them to think about their story at a structural level they hadn't reached yet.
The wizard doesn't map your beats, plan your chapters, or generate a blueprint. That's the job of the Plotting Tools and Architecture Generators. The wizard gets you to the right door. The tools take you through it.
Your architecture type identified and explained. A clear description of how that architecture works — how time moves, how meaning builds, how it resolves. Direct links to the matching architecture hub page, Plotting Tools, and World Wizards. Enough architectural understanding to choose your next tool with confidence.
The nine architecture types are not interchangeable. A story built on Web architecture behaves completely differently from a story built on Linear architecture — not just stylistically, but structurally. The beats are different. The resolution is different. The role of conflict is different.
If you pick a Plotting Tool or World Wizard before you know your architecture type, you might be trying to build a web story with a linear tool — and wondering why the structure never quite fits. The Idea Wizard prevents that. Ten minutes at the start saves weeks of structural confusion later.