Help Shape Stories You Believe In
Pitch characters, plot turns, world rules. The room votes. The creator canonizes.
- Free to joinFree to join
- No applicationNo application
- Canon creditCredit for what becomes canon
Lost Spirits
MISFORTUNE
The City That Remembered Rain
The Canvas Of Silence
Wrongs Make A Right
CRUMB COMBAT
MIGHTY KITE
SNIF: The Last Scentinel
Stories Being Developed Right Now
Public projects on CanonBoard, hand-picked. Every one of them is in active development — the writer is building the canon, and the audience is pitching ideas and backing the ones they want made.
“Every writer has read something
and known exactly what it needed
— and had nowhere to put it.”
A Board is a story world whose creator left the door open.
A Writers’ Room You Don’t Need Permission to Walk Into
A Board is a story world whose creator has opened the door. You can read the whole canon as it stands — the characters, the locations, the rules, the timeline — and then add to it. Your pitch goes into a public queue where other contributors read it, argue with it, and vote it up.
It is a writers’ room with the door open: one person holding the creative line, and everyone else in the room genuinely able to change what happens next.
Pitches sit in the open, sorted by the room. Backing one moves it to the front of the queue — the creator still decides what becomes canon.
From an Idea in Your Head to Canon in Someone’s World
The Writers Shaping Canon Right Now
Ranked by ideas that actually made it into a world, then by ideas pitched. Every name here started by joining one room — and here is what it earned them.
What Pitching Actually Earns You
Every idea that becomes canon keeps your name attached to it, in the world itself, for as long as that world exists. Automatic, and it never expires.
Creators set their own Board Member Perks — a credit mention, early pages, a character named after a contributor. Each Board lists its own, and some list none.
Other writers reading your work, arguing with it, and building on it — inside a world whose rules already hold together.
On top of the credit, CanonBoard puts money behind the pitches we think are the best of the week, across every open Board. The amount is announced with each round. Judged by people, not by vote count — so a quiet, precise idea in a small room can win. You are entered simply by pitching.
Watch a World Get Built, in Real Time
The Board is the slow half — pitches, votes, arguments, over days. A live room is the fast half: the creator on camera with the canvas open, making the calls while the room watches.
The Engine That Holds Every Room Together
These rooms don't collapse into contradiction because there is a real engine under them — every character, rule, timeline and relationship connected, and continuously stress-tested. It is the reason a pitch can be judged on whether it is good rather than on whether anyone can still follow the plot.
From Blank Canvas to Living World — in Four Moves
Three Tools That Compress Weeks Into Minutes
Import a whole world in minutes, draw the canon out of your own head, and catch every contradiction before it ships. It never writes your story — it just gets you from idea to organized world in a fraction of the time.
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.
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!
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.
From a Single Project to an Entire Studio
Free to build. Upgrade when the team grows or the Board opens.
- ●1 project
- ●1 seat
- ●Workspace Canvas + The Board
- ●Limited live room access
- ●AI credits/mo — shared pool
- ●Smart Import, Refine, Conflict Detection
- ●Affiliate program — 30% recurring
- ●Priority support
- ●Unlimited projects
- ●3 seats included, +$5/seat
- ●Workspace Canvas + The Board
- ●Unlimited live room access
- ●15 AI credits/mo — shared pool
- ●Smart Import, Refine, Conflict Detection
- ●Affiliate program — 30% recurring
- ●Priority support
- ●Unlimited projects
- ●10 seats included, +$5/seat
- ●Workspace Canvas + The Board
- ●Live Writers' Room hosting
- ●40 AI credits/mo — shared pool
- ●Smart Import, Refine, Conflict Detection
- ●Affiliate program — 30% recurring
- ●Priority support
The Questions Writers Ask First
Does it cost anything to pitch?
No. Joining a Board, reading the canon, pitching ideas, voting and commenting are all free, on every plan including the free one. There is nothing to buy to take part.
Do I need experience to join a room?
No. Boards are open to anyone with an account, and plenty of the best pitches come from readers rather than working writers. If you have written professionally that will show in your pitches — but nothing here asks for a résumé, and no one is screened before they can contribute.
Who decides what becomes canon?
The creator whose world it is, always. Votes and comments tell them what the room responds to, and strong pitches genuinely do rise — but the final call belongs to one person, on purpose. That is what stops a shared world turning into a committee, and it is why the worlds here stay coherent.
Can I open my own project too?
Yes, and it is free. The same account works both ways — you can be a contributor in five rooms and run your own alongside it. The workspace those rooms are built on is the other half of CanonBoard, and it is what stops a world falling apart once other people start adding to it.
Do I lose control of my canon?
No. The Board is a ranked queue of suggestions, never a binding vote. Votes and backing are signal about what resonates; nothing enters your world's canon unless you canonize it. You can decline any pitch, and make a project private again at any time.
How do creators get paid?
Audiences can back individual pitches or support a project directly. You keep 85% of every contribution and CanonBoard takes 15% — that is the only deduction, because card processing comes out of CanonBoard's share. A $10 contribution reaches you as $8.50, at every amount. There is no listing fee, no withdrawal fee, and no plan requirement — funding works on the free plan exactly as it does on paid plans. Add a PayPal address and request a payout once the available balance reaches $25. Payouts are settled manually to that PayPal address, so there is no separate payment-processor account to set up or verify first. Backing is support, not an investment, and funding income is taxable like any other income.
Do I own the idea I pitch?
Read the Board Participation Terms before you pitch — they set out exactly what happens to an idea you submit and what rights the creator gets if it becomes canon. Short version: canonized ideas become part of the creator's world, and you keep your credit permanently. Do not pitch anything you are not willing to see used on those terms.
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. Content only leaves CanonBoard when you trigger one of the three tools that need it: Smart Import, Refine, and 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 to our AI provider, it goes under commercial API terms that forbid training on it and cap how long it can be retained. That's a standing contractual commitment from the provider, not a promise we're making on their behalf. Changing any of this would take your explicit opt-in, never a quiet update to our terms.
The Room Is Already Talking. Say Something.
Pick what you want to write, and we'll show you the rooms that need it. Free to join, free to pitch, and your name stays on whatever lands.