Prewrite for educators
Inspire the next generation of great storytellers.
Prewrite is used by professionals, but built for learning story at any level — middle school to film school.
Story breakdowns
Learn from the masters.
Our library of breakdowns visually and interactively reveals story mechanics in popular content. Use them as a reference in class, and as a basis for classwork and assignments.
Structured assignments
From Aristotle's three acts to Campbell's Hero's Journey.
Prewrite offers the timeless paradigms as templates, so students quickly learn a structure and write their story inside it.
Story stats
The plot diagram and the draft, one document.
Students see their own story's shape as they write it: who's on stage, how long each scene runs, where the tone rises and falls.
Guide your students
Help at every level.
Prewrite's knowledge base and built-in tooltips guide storytellers of any level. On top of that, we'll work with you to tailor Prewrite to your curriculum.
More features and benefits
Ready for the classroom you have.
In person or remote
Breakdowns and stories are just a link away for any student.
Any device
Prewrite works in any modern browser, Chromebooks included.
Group work
Invite classmates to a story as editors and write it together. Collaborators come with Pro, and join free.
Your words for the parts
Scene becomes Chapter, Character becomes Narrator. One tool for ELA, film and podcasting.
Free resources
Our story breakdowns are free to open, copy and teach from.
Exports
PDF, Word and Final Draft — a properly formatted script for a festival or a film-school application.
Every level
Middle school to film school.
The same tool screenwriters use, with the structure in view the whole time — simple enough for a first story, deep enough for a thesis film.
Structures to teach from.
Freytag, Three-Act, the Hero's Journey, Story Circle and more — the way plot is already taught.
Free story breakdowns.
Each title is a Prewrite story, scene by scene, that anyone can open, copy and teach from.
- The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allen Poe Public Domain
- Star Wars: A New HopeGeorge Lucas ©1977, Disney
- The Shawshank RedemptionFrank Darabont The Power of Hope
- Toy StoryPixar First 3D-Animated Film
Praise for Prewrite
Kirby VossForza Productions“I tell all my students, friends and co-workers, if you're writing a movie, you need to use Prewrite. There's just no way around it.”
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