Storytelling & Folklore Tools
Free, practical tools for narrative craft and oral tradition — plot a story arc, generate a character name, find a folktale's tale type, estimate reading time, time a campfire telling, and plan an oral-history interview.
Story Arc Plotter
Turn a target word count into a stage-by-stage plotting budget for the Three-Act Structure, Freytag's Pyramid, or the Hero's Journey.
Character Name Generator
Generate invented storytelling names by folklore tradition and character role — hero, trickster, elder, or guardian — each with a short in-story epithet.
Folktale Motif Finder
Search the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index of recurring international tale types by keyword or category, with plain-language summaries and examples.
Reading Time Estimator
Paste text or enter a word count and see how long it takes to read — silently, aloud, as a children's story, or narrated for an audiobook.
Campfire Story Timer
Turn a target telling time into a five-beat checkpoint schedule for live oral storytelling, with clock times and a word budget per beat.
Oral-History Interview Planner
Split an interview's length across five standard oral-history sections, with a suggested question count for each.