They're what bind your characters together, pull them apart, and drive every meaningful moment in your narrative. Ligature Beats is your pocket notebook for tracking what matters most: the evolving dynamics between your characters. Not the events of your story, but the emotional beats that make those events matter.
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What is this? Ligature Beats helps writers track the emotional relationships between characters as they evolve throughout a story.
How does it work? Create a project, add your characters, then map how their relationships change across your story's key phases.
Getting started: Sign up or log in, and we'll give you a sample project to explore. Play around, break things, and please use the Feedback link to tell me what you think!
— Duane
Ligature Beats helps you see how your characters' relationships evolve across the story.
To get started:
Don't worry about filling everything out right away. You can always add details later as your story develops.
Want to explore first? We've included A Christmas Carol as a sample project so you can see how it all works.
Manage your story projects
Manage your story characters
Track how relationships rise, fall, and shift across the story
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Select a project to start brainstorming
Select a project to browse relationships
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