Getting Started

From a blank welcome screen to your first paragraph. Create a project, add your first chapter, and watch your dashboard come to life.

Build out your cast and world so their names autocomplete right in your scenes, then link relationships and see them connected on the Character Map.

Tag each scene as you write it, and Alistair builds your story arc timeline automatically. No extra outlining tool needed.

A quick tour of the scene editor's toolbar: status, tags, version history, and the formatting tools you'll reach for daily.

Turn your scenes into one submission-ready manuscript, or a real e-book, in a single pass through the Compiler.

Get a model that fits your hardware, speed it up with your graphics card, then use it as a writing coach and to interview your characters. Everything runs offline.

Real industry-standard formatting from the first line: scene headings, character cues, and exports to Fountain or Final Draft. It's a different project type from tutorials 1, 4, and 5, but Characters, Locations, and Story Elements (tutorials 2 and 3) work exactly the same way here.

Set a daily word-count goal, then watch your streak and activity heatmap grow right from your project's home screen.

Record events, legends, and prophecies as Lore, read them as a timeline, then compile your whole world into a Lore Book you can print or share.

Generate a map from your World Building, give territories to your Factions and towns to your Locations, redraw borders, and draw roads.

Make a sheet for anything your story needs, like magic items, ships or spells, in the visual builder: click fields onto a page, link them to your characters and places, and try the form. No code.

Still no code: give each document its own icon or picture, list characters and places, look things up through links, calculate, show fields only when they matter, find every mention in your manuscript, and add buttons that make new documents.

With the code builder, write templates that read your project, and change it with your permission: start from a ready-made one, look up any call in the API tab, use autocomplete and the Console, and keep it up to date as you write.