Using the AI writing assistant

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Writer Mode includes a highly contextual AI co-writer built to help you break through writer's block and polish your prose — without taking the pen out of your hand. It reads your story so its suggestions stay on-character and on-tone, and nothing it produces changes your text until you say so.

Two ways to use it

There are two places the assistant shows up:

  • The floating toolbar. Select any passage in the editor and a small AI toolbar appears right next to your selection. This is the fastest way to act on a specific sentence or paragraph.
  • The right-panel chat assistant. A conversational interface docked to the side of the screen. Chat with it to brainstorm ideas, check whether something is consistent with your lore, or have it draft entirely new paragraphs.

What it can do to a selection

Highlight text, then choose an action:

  • Rewrite — same meaning, fresh wording and better flow.
  • Expand — flesh out a short line into fuller description or dialogue.
  • Shorten — tighten a wordy passage without losing the point.
  • Change tone — make it lighter, darker, more formal, more humorous, and so on.
  • Suggest next — ideas for what comes after the current passage.

Why its suggestions fit your story

The assistant is context-aware. It reads the current chapter text, your overall story synopsis, and the metadata from characters you've tagged, so it writes in keeping with the world you've already built. The more accurate your synopsis and the more you use @ mentions to tag characters and places from your Series Bible, the better its output matches your lore.

You stay in control

Nothing changes until you accept. For every generation you can accept it (it replaces or inserts the text), regenerate for a different take, or discard it and keep what you had. Manual editing is always free, and you can ignore the assistant entirely if you'd rather write every word yourself.

What it costs

Each AI generation spends a few Creation Points, the credits included with your plan. You'll see what an action involves before you commit, and discarding a suggestion you don't accept doesn't lock you out of trying again.

Tips and pitfalls

  • Select tightly. Acting on one paragraph gives sharper results than selecting a whole chapter at once.
  • Tag your cast first. Mentioning characters with @ before you ask for a rewrite helps the AI keep voices and relationships straight.
  • Take a snapshot before a big rewrite. If you're about to transform a large section, note that each chapter keeps a version history you can restore from.
  • Brainstorm in chat, edit in the toolbar. Use the right-panel chat for open-ended ideas; use the floating toolbar for precise, in-place edits.
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