Next Chapters
Next Chapters Helps Creators Imagine Fantastic Worlds and Stories

For Creators

It doesn't matter where you are stuck.
We can help you break through and finish your novel.

Founded with the purpose of helping aspiring novelists write their stories, Next Chapters makes it easy to work out the individual elements of your current writing project by piecing it together chapter by chapter.

Create solo.  Make progress together.

Whatever fantasy world you imagine – its characters, its landscape, its economy, its perils, its monsters, its dieties – is entirely up to you. However making it concrete for the reader is essential.

Find inspiration as you outline your stories, profile compelling characters, and plot story arcs and individual scenes. Reach your writing goals with motivation from peer critiques and guidance on story craft from our Next Chapters community. 

Brainstorm great story ideas and create full story outlines in no time.

Starting your story: Use fun and structured writing tools to flesh out your story.  Create characters, brainstorm settings, and plan rising and falling action. Finish with a comprehensive outline of your story.

Developing your ideas: Have an idea for a story? A draft in progress? Next steps are sometimes hard to work out. Get professional feedback for improvement and accountability to stay motivated and finish your story.

Next Chapters offers tools, inspiration, and a supportive community for aspiring novelists and creatives. We continuously host creative challenges for those who need some extra motivation where participants race to complete a chapter of writing in one of our new community novels.  Take some time to read over some of our great books already in progress on Next Chapters.  And if any sound interesting to you, come on over and add your own next chapter to the book already in progress.

Some of Our Books Currently in Progress

Horror

The Beasthouse

When James Wood inherits his uncle’s house it seems like the perfect solution to his problems. He can escape his dead-end job and failed marriage by moving to a small town on the Oregon coast, at least for a few months. There is something odd in the town of Rockrail Beach, and in the sprawling mansion he’s inherited. His actions attract the attention of odd strangers. Unexplained, and inexplicable deaths begin to mount. It seems that the charismatic and oddly knowledgeable Mr Stranac can help him out. However, Stranac has his own agenda and his own identity, and soon James is thrown into a deeper and more shocking situation as his uncle’s true nature is revealed.

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Dystopian Thriller

Malware+

What if mental disorders worked less like chemistry and more like neural malware?

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Science Fiction

Beyond the Barrier

Having finally reached the stars, humanity finds that we are fenced in by an unknown technology. At 22 light-years across, the area cordoned off by the mysterious Pylons is hardly small, though humanity loves to push boundaries. Enter the Dust Bus, a prospector ship cruising between stations when an inert, seemingly deactivated Pylon is discovered. What happens next throws all of human space into a panic and sends ripples across a galactic civilization spanning millions of years and near as many worlds.

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Want to find more of our community-powered novels in progress on Next Chapters?

To ensure that you are getting the greatest benefit from Next Chapters, please be sure to take some time to read our terms and conditions.

It doesn’t matter where in the process you are stuck.  Next Chapters can help you break through and finish your story.

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