Story Bible
The Story Bible is an automatically generated reference document for your manuscript's characters, worldbuilding, plot, and narrative style. It gives you a single place to check details while writing and serves as context for the editor's feedback.
The Story Bible is available for fiction projects only, including young adult fiction. A non-fiction research bible feature is coming soon!
What's Included
Your Story Bible is organized into sections covering the key elements of your manuscript:
- Synopsis - A complete plot summary of your manuscript, including the ending
- Story Type - The narrative structure identified in your manuscript (Three-Act, Hero's Journey, etc.) with justification
- Style & Craft - Point of view, tense, narrative voice, sentence structure, literary devices, thematic concerns, and genre conventions
- Characters - Detailed profiles for every character, including physical descriptions, dialogue style, motivations, relationships, and story background
- Worldbuilding - Settings, locations, organizations, rules and norms, language and dialects, and terminology specific to your story
The content of each section adapts to your genre. For example, a fantasy manuscript's worldbuilding section may include cosmology and magic systems, while a contemporary novel's may focus on social dynamics and settings.
Accessing the Story Bible
The Story Bible has its own tab in the top navigation bar, next to your document and rules tabs.
- Open your project
- Click the Story Bible tab in the top navigation
The Story Bible is generated automatically when your manuscript is first imported. If it hasn't been generated yet, it will be created when you first visit the tab.
Editing the Story Bible
The Story Bible opens in a collaborative editor, just like your manuscript. You can edit any section directly:
- Fix details the system got wrong
- Add notes or context the analysis missed
- Expand character profiles with your own details
- Update sections as your manuscript evolves
Your edits are saved automatically and will be preserved. You can also ask to make updates through the chat.
How Characters Are Used
The Characters section of your Story Bible is referenced by the editor when generating feedback on your manuscript. This means:
- Comments will use the correct character names and aliases
- Feedback can reference character roles and relationships accurately
- Developmental feedback is informed by character arcs described in the Story Bible
If you update character details in the Story Bible, those changes will be reflected in future feedback.
Exporting the Story Bible
You can include the Story Bible when exporting your manuscript:
- Open the export dialog from the top navigation
- If a Story Bible exists, you'll see an option to include it
- The Story Bible exports as a separate file alongside your manuscript
Supported export formats: PDF and Word (.docx)
Using the Story Bible in Chat
When chatting with the editor, it can reference and cite specific sections of your Story Bible. Citation links in chat responses will scroll you to the relevant passage in the Story Bible, making it easy to verify details or see the full context.