A guided, offline cultural framework plotting tool. You answer the prompts. It builds your blueprint.
A World Wizard is a Cultural Framework Plotting Tool β the same guided structural workshop as a Plotting Tool, built as a standalone HTML file that runs entirely in your browser. It walks you through the structural logic of a specific cultural framework step by step and produces a complete story blueprint. No server. No AI. No connection required.
The output is a structural blueprint. Not prose. Not a draft. The architecture of your story β everything you need to start writing with confidence.
There are 30 World Wizards across 10 world origins. Each one covers a specific named story structure β the Anansi Web Pattern, the Griot Performance Cycle, KishΕtenketsu, the Ubuntu Story Circle, and 26 more. The cultural framework is not a preamble to the tool β it is the structural logic the tool is built on. Every step, every prompt, every field is shaped by how that specific culture actually organized narrative.
Each wizard covers one story structure. You might choose by architecture type, by world origin, or because the structure's name caught your attention. The landing page tells you exactly what this structure does and where it comes from before you start.
Each step explains what the structural element is and why it exists in this tradition. This isn't decoration or pre-reading β it is how the architecture works. The Anansi Web Pattern's steps are what they are because of how the Akan tradition structured meaning. Understanding the origin is understanding the structure.
The wizard walks you through each element of the structure in order. Each step explains what it is architecturally, gives examples from the tradition, and asks you to apply it to your own story. You fill in your story's specifics β the wizard provides the framework.
When you've worked through all the steps, copy your completed framework to a document β that is your blueprint. Every major structural beat mapped to your specific story, organized by the architecture you chose. Take it into Scrivener, Word, or Docs and write from it.
Each World Wizard is a standalone HTML file β a self-contained application that runs entirely in your browser. No backend server. No login required to use it. No data sent anywhere. This is why World Wizards work offline: once loaded, the entire wizard runs locally. The content, the steps, the teaching text β all of it is in the file itself, developed from primary-source research into each tradition.
This is a deliberate architectural choice. The research embedded in each wizard took significant time to develop β the cultural context, the structural principles, the respectful framing of each tradition. Making them self-contained means they are portable, private, and permanent. Your work in a wizard stays in your browser. Nothing leaves your device unless you copy it out yourself.
The Hero's Journey has 12 steps. Knowing the steps without understanding the architecture produces generic execution. A World Wizard builds the cultural reasoning into every step β because the reason Anansi stories don't have a single protagonist IS the structural logic of web architecture. A writer who understands that builds web-pattern stories very differently from one who just follows a step list.
World Wizards have no AI functionality. There are no Assist buttons, no Gemini calls, no backend. The wizard prompts you β you answer from your own creative knowledge of your story. This is intentional. The wizard's job is to teach you to think architecturally, not to suggest content. The creative input is entirely yours.
Because World Wizards run locally, your inputs exist in your browser session. If you close the wizard, your inputs are not automatically saved to an account. Copy your framework to a document before closing β that document is your output to take forward.
Your story's shape mapped to this structure's architecture. The key structural beats identified and filled in for your specific story. A grounding in the cultural tradition you used β enough to use it with understanding, not just imitation.
Copy your filled-in framework to Scrivener, Word, or Docs. That document becomes your outline β the foundation you write your story from.
Both are the same Cultural Framework Plotting Tool. The framework, the structural steps, and the blueprint output are the same. The technology is the only difference. Choose based on how you want to work.
Many frameworks have both implementations. If both exist for the structure you're working with, the choice is purely technological preference.
See It In Action
Walk through a complete Anansi Web Pattern session β every thread, every screen filled in, and the full web map it produces.
Read the complete walkthrough β