Recently, we faced something every storyteller secretly fears.
Miro froze - and with it, a large part of the chapter simply vanished. Everything: branches, dialogues, scenes, transitions. Hours of work just dissolved, as if they had never existed.
Since the chapter was complex and branching, recovery turned into a quest of its own. For a week, we pieced it back together from notes, drafts, and memory - restoring lines, scenes, and the fragile logic between them. Sometimes it felt like we were trying to remember what a character should have said in the exact spot where now there was only silence.
Now the chapter is back on track. We’re bringing the text to order, checking links and pacing.
By the way, a question to fellow storytellers: have you ever used a truly reliable tool for narrative mapping? Not just Miro or FigJam (and definitely not plain text files), but something that lets you visualize branches, choices, and events - to see the entire structure as one whole.
If you have a dependable tool or workflow - share it with us. After this experience, we’ve learned how fragile stories can be, and how important it is not only to write them… but to preserve them.