Notes on building a connected narrative design platform.

Product decisions, narrative production problems, and what we are learning while Storyarn grows.

Featured story September 24, 2026 8 min read

What a Brainstorm Leaves Behind

Why brainstorming loses ideas during and after the session, and how Storyarn keeps a team's decisions attached to the characters, flows, and scenes they change.

Brainstorming Narrative design Collaboration Production

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A brainstorming round in Storyarn: a group of notes with its synthesis, and the round's decisions linked to the notes they came from

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