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The screenplay for all.
CanonBoard is where screenwriters of all levels compete to write the next beat — and get paid for the top vote.
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“Every screenwriter has read something
and known exactly what it needed
— and had nowhere to put it.”
One script, many writers, and a dozen good answers to the same beat. A round is what turns those answers into a decision — the Board reads them, picks one, and it becomes canon.
How it works
One script. Four steps. Any number of writers.
A round opens, the Board writes for it, and the Board decides what makes it in. Then the next one opens.
Read the script
The Board holds one script. Read it, then read the beat the round wants.
Upvote the next beat
Read the drafts and upvote the ones that belong. That earns your entry.
Write the next beat
One scene, one exchange, one turn — in script format, in the composer.
The winner becomes canon
The Board's ranking decides. The winning beat is credited, and paid.
Featured
Stories the Board is already writing.
Horror / ThrillerFilm
Nourish
by Amadi Grey
Horror / FantasyVertical Drama
MISFORTUNE
by Amadi Grey
DramaVertical Drama
Mistakes We Make
by Amadi Grey
Sci-FiVertical Drama
Dispersed
by Amadi Grey
Animation / ComedyTV / Series
CRUMB COMBAT
by Amadi Grey
AnimeTV / Series
MIGHTY KITE
by Amadi Grey
Launch your story
Bring your story. Write it with the Board.
Add your story and open a round. Writers draft the next beat, the Board votes on them, and the best one joins the script — and you receive royalties on paid entries.
Projects and the canvas start at $7/mo.
CharacterCanon clear
Eli Vance
Lighthouse keeper, 47. Built the signal that pulls the drowned back.
CharacterCanon clear
Maren Vance
Drowned at 9, returned at 9. Hasn't aged in 11 years.
World RuleCanon clear
The drowned return at the age they died
Leaderboard
The writers shaping canon right now.
Ranked by ideas that actually made it into a world, then by ideas drafted. Every name here started by joining one group — and here is what it earned them.
173
drafts submitted
26
made canon
1
angel billips
Points222
0 canon · 9 drafts
2
Juniper Vale
Points211
3 canon · 6 drafts
3
Esme Novak
Points191
2 canon · 11 drafts
What drafting actually earns you.
Your name on the script
Win a round and your beat joins the script, credited to you, in public.
Guaranteed by CanonBoard
Cash when your beat wins
Every round names a cash prize when it opens. The winning writer is paid it.
Announced with each round
Recognition that follows you
Drafts and wins move you up the public leaderboard of writers shaping canon.
Across every board
Reviews
What writers are saying.
I really like the idea behind this platform, and I’m already enjoying using it. As a filmmaker, I especially love the storyboard feel of it all, and I’ve already begun setting up a book with an entirely new world, alongside characters that users can literally click on to learn more about. It feels very interactive and makes readers genuinely feel like they’re part of the experience.
The team has also been friendly and supportive, and their enthusiasm for what they’re building is infectious. Overall, this is a top-tier platform.
Belinda
Filmmaker
One of my favorite parts of writing is brainstorming ideas with other creative thinkers, and I love that CanonBoard makes it so easy to collaborate on publicly-available stories. It’s like having access to an online writer’s room whenever you want!
Piper
Writer
The safe space from writer’s block and decreased creativity! Truly, here you will find no shortage of ideas, stories, themes, or plots. You can always receive and view others’ ideas for your project and intertwine them with your own creative writing, and truly give your viewers the best, most interactive creative process for your medium.
Angel
Writer
FAQ
What people ask before they write.
What is The Board?
The Board is the group of writers and readers who decide what happens next in a script. It is also the page where that happens: the script as it stands, the round currently open, and the drafts competing for the next beat. Everyone on the Board reads the same pages, votes on the drafts other people wrote, and can submit one of their own. What the Board votes for becomes canon.
What decides which draft wins?
The Board's upvotes, and nothing else. Every reader upvotes the drafts they would make canon; those upvotes add up to a ranking, and the most-upvoted beat joins the script. The scoring never sees who wrote a draft, what plan they are on, or whether they have paid CanonBoard anything — there is no way to buy position in a round, and that is enforced in the code rather than promised in copy: the module that scores a round takes no account, tier or payment input at all.
How do writers get paid?
By winning a round. The writer whose beat is ranked highest is credited on the script permanently, and where the round carries a cash prize, paid it. The amount is announced with the round, CanonBoard funds it, and CanonBoard takes no cut. Most rounds are free to enter; some charge an entry fee in Canon Credits, always shown before you submit — and since voting earns credits, taking part in other rounds is one way to pay for those. Add a PayPal address and request a payout whenever you have a balance. There is no minimum.
What is a Canon Credit?
CanonBoard's one currency, worth a dollar of a round's entry fee. A credit also buys a Conflict Detection scan, a Refine session, or a Smart Import of a small document — or skips a round's voting requirement so you can submit straight away. Core includes 10 a month and Pro 50, shared across your whole account rather than per seat. Voting earns them back slowly. Packs never expire: Starter ($2.50 / 10), Standard ($5.00 / 25), Pro Pack ($10.00 / 60).
Who owns my world?
You do. Entirely, unambiguously, forever. CanonBoard claims no rights over the worlds, characters or stories you build here. You open rounds on your own project and the Board writes into it; the one thing that ever gets signed is a short agreement from the writer whose beat wins, covering the use of that beat in the script, before their prize is paid.
Will my work be used to train AI models?
No. Your story content is never used to train AI models — not ours, not our AI provider's, not anyone's. It only leaves CanonBoard when you trigger one of the three tools that need it: Smart Import, Refine, or Conflict Detection. Everything else — the canvas, relationship mapping, the timeline, the Vault, version history — runs on our own infrastructure and never goes anywhere. When those three do send content out, it goes under commercial API terms that forbid training on it and cap how long it can be kept. That is a contractual commitment from the provider, not a promise we are making on their behalf, and changing any of it would take your explicit opt-in rather than a quiet update to our terms.
The script is open. Write the next beat.
A room is reading the same pages you are, and the beat they need next is still unwritten. Free to join, and your name stays on the beat that wins.