Romance Arc Tracker | Relationship Beats and Escalation Dashboard | Couple Profile Setup & Attraction Force Sliders | Beat Sheet + Tropes

✦ Stop guessing why your love story feels flat in the middle

This dashboard treats a romance like a force system: two people with specific pulls toward each other, specific reasons to resist, and a measurable rise in heat, trust and risk from first glance to earned ending.

An interactive HTML romance plotting dashboard for novelists and fanfic writers — relationship beats, intimacy escalation ladder, tension curve, push-pull balance audit, and trope and heat filters.

✦ WHAT IS INSIDE

→ Couple Profile: wants, wounds, deal breakers, and what each character believes love costs
→ Attraction Force Sliders: weigh physical pull, intellectual spark, emotional safety and forbidden charge, so chemistry is deliberate rather than accidental
→ Beat Sheet Checklist: meet cute or meet ugly, first spark, forced proximity, near miss, confession, rupture, reunion
→ Intimacy Escalation Ladder: the step-by-step progression of touch, honesty and exposure, so nothing jumps a rung
→ Tension Curve Chart: the shape of longing across the book, and the flat stretch spotted before a reader finds it
→ Conflict Engine Log: the internal and external obstacles keeping them apart, and why each one still holds
→ Scene-by-Scene Tracker: every shared scene with heat level, power shift, and what changed between them
→ Trust & Vulnerability Meter: how much each character risks, and whether the other one earns it
→ Push-Pull Balance Audit: catch the common failure where one character chases for two hundred pages
→ Dark Moment Planner: a breakup or betrayal that grows from the wound instead of a misunderstanding
→ Earned Ending Validator: proof the happy ending was paid for by change, sacrifice and growth
→ Trope & Heat Filters: tag your arc by trope and heat level, to keep the promise you made to the reader you attracted
→ Overview: chemistry, peak tension, open conflicts and beats complete, on one page

✦ ZERO AND EMPTY ARE NOT THE SAME THING

A tension reading of zero is a real measurement — a scene with no charge at all is worth recording.

So the dashboard never uses zero to mean "nothing here yet." Chemistry, peak tension, average trust and average vulnerability all show a dash until you have actually rated something, and a genuine zero stays a zero.

It sounds like a small distinction until you open a new project and a tool tells you your romance has no chemistry.

✦ WHY WRITERS USE IT

→ Diagnose a sagging middle by looking at the curve, not by rereading the whole draft
→ Keep slow burn genuinely slow without stalling the story
→ Make the third act crisis inevitable rather than convenient
→ Match your escalation to the heat level your readers expect
→ Plan a series or a standalone with the same repeatable structure

✦ GOOD FOR

→ Romance, romantasy and contemporary love story drafts
→ Subplot romance inside fantasy, mystery or science fiction
→ Fanfic writers tracking slow burn across long chapter counts
→ Plotters who outline first, and pantsers reverse-engineering a messy draft
→ One couple, a love triangle, or every pairing in a series

✦ HOW IT WORKS

→ One HTML file that opens in any modern browser — desktop, laptop, tablet or phone
→ No account, no subscription, no internet connection needed. Ever, not just after download
→ Everything you type stays in your own browser, on your own device. Nothing is uploaded
→ Export a backup file any time, and import it on another computer
→ Six color themes and three interface languages (English, Português, Italiano)
→ Saves as you type

✦ WHAT YOU RECEIVE

→ One interactive HTML dashboard
→ An illustrated user guide
→ Your license

✦ PLEASE NOTE

This is an interactive dashboard, not a printable planner — it is built to be used on screen.

Your work lives in the browser you open the file with, so use the same one each time, and export a backup before switching computers.

Instant digital download; nothing ships. For personal writing use. Because downloads are instant, all sales are final — but message me if anything does not open correctly.

AI-assisted: product content, code and listing images are produced with AI tools. Concept, structure and creative direction are my own.