Towards a Visual Graph-Based Story Outline Authoring

In this paper we present an authoring tool for collaborative visual creation of story outlines. A visual graph-based approach was adopted in order to allow story outlining of a wide range of types and genres of stories, while offering a story representation paradigm suitable for multi-author collaboration and for the integration and organisation of external sources of documentation of the story. Such a paradigm of story representation is also effective for an easy and semiautomatic rapid creation of story prototypes which can be obtained by mean of a specifically developed templating engine.