Story Planner

The Story Planner turns intent into structure the drafting model works from. Your chapter outlines and key events go into every chapter's prompt, and the key events are checked against what the drafting model drafts.

What it is for

• Chapter-by-chapter outlines, drafted from your premise or written by hand, editable at any time.
• Arcs that group chapters into acts. Each arc keeps a summary of the story so far, which the drafting model reads for the arc it is in. Arcs do not plan what happens next.
• A story bible that accumulates automatically as you write -- every fact the book has committed to, in one place.

How it reaches the book

When a chapter is drafted, its outline goes into the prompt: point of view, key events, scene structure, and the opening hook, closing hook and emotional stakes. Before writing, the point of view is compared with your outline. Afterwards, each key event is looked for in the finished chapter, first by the names and actions in it and then by a second language-model read for paraphrase, and the result is saved with the chapter. A missed event never blocks a chapter. The hooks and stakes are instructions to the writer and are not checked afterwards.