A novel holds together when its people are specific and its world has rules. DraftBloom starts there. Everything you build here becomes the context every later chapter is written from.
The characters
Identity
Name, role, age, how they look, the first impression they make.
Personality console
Twelve sliders in three banks: temperament, social stance, moral compass. Move one and the character's behaviour rewrites. Write a backstory and the sliders answer back.
Story engine
What they want, what they need, the lie they believe, the truth that breaks it, and the ghost that planted the lie. These five fields are what generate plot.
Voice print
Diction, rhythm, verbal tics, what they never say, three sample lines. Every draft in their voice reads it.
Arcs
Each turn in a character's arc is pinned to the plot's own timeline, so the desk knows where they are.
Relationships
Typed bonds with a starting state, an ending state, and the beats where they turn.
Kael Ashvanebeat 07, the crossing
Kael hesitates, then hauls the boy in. The gate closes without him.
Move the slider and the behaviour rewrites. Write the backstory instead, and the AI proposes the slider values it reads there. Both land in the same character record, and both wait for your approval.
The setting
Places
Geography, atmosphere, who is there.
Factions and cultures
Institutions, goals, rivals, customs, eras, and the events that shaped them.
Systems
Magic, technology, economy, law. Every system asks for its rules, its costs, and its limits, because a magic system without a cost is why third acts fall apart.
Lexicon and timeline
Invented words and spellings, and a story-world calendar with ages and dates.
Canon locks
Lock a fact, her eyes are grey, the crossing takes nine days, and a later contradiction is an error, not a suggestion.
Sources
Research notes cited to the entry they informed. Real sources or nothing, never an invented citation.
The crossingplace
Rules
The ferry runs at dusk. The river never freezes.
Costs
One coin each way. The ferryman remembers faces.
Limits
Nine days by water. No crossing in the frost.
Locked: the river does not freeze. A scene that freezes it is an error.
Chapter two. The shape of the book
Decide what the book is, and how it flows.
A premise and a narrator’s voice. The dramatic question, the ending, and the beats between them. Then chapters and scenes, as deep as you want and no deeper. The AI proposes each of these from what you have already built, and you keep what is right.
Premise and voice
Logline
A ferryman’s daughter who can count what others cannot see must cross a river that never freezes to find the sister everyone says she never had.
Genre, tone
Literary fantasy. Quiet, cold, and exact.
The voice of the book
Close third, past tense. Short sentences that count things.
Start from a line, a character, a place, or a feeling. The AI grows it into a premise card, shows why it inferred each field, and writes one paragraph three ways so you can pick the narrator.
The structure
Opening imageCatalystBreak into twoMidpointAll is lostClimax
Answer four questions: who wants what, what stands in the way, the dramatic question, the ending. Pick a structure or build your own, then drag beats along the bar. Every AI call from here on knows the whole structure and where the current scene sits on it.
The outline
Chapter 5. The crossingBeats 04 and 05. Point of view: Mara.
The landing at duskGoal: Count the lanternsConflict: The ferry has not run since the frostOutcome: No, and
Kael comes down the bankGoal: Get across without himConflict: He has the coinOutcome: Yes, but
Beats become chapters, chapters become scenes. A scene can be one sentence. Ask for more and the five questions appear as proposals, not homework. Every setup you plant is registered and expects a payoff, which is the most useful list in a second draft.
Chapter three. Chapter by chapter
Then write it, scene by scene, from everything you built.
The desk is where the months go. Write a scene yourself, or have the AI draft it. Either way it is written from your own world: the people in the room, the facts you locked, the threads still open, and where you are on the structure. Drafted in order, one scene at a time, the AI can carry a book from the first page to the last, and every scene waits for you before it counts.
Chapter 5, scene 2. Kael comes down the bank.
The ferry had not run since the frost, and the boards of the landing were furred white where the river breathed on them. Mara stood at the end with her hands in her sleeves and counted the lanterns on the far bank. Nine. There had been eleven in the summer.
Kael came down the bank the way he did everything, as though the ground had been arranged for him. He did not look at the water. He looked at her, and then past her, at the lanterns, and she saw him count them too.
ContinueExpandTightenRewrite in a character's voiceDescribe
“You planned this,” she said.
you wrote this a model drafted it, you kept it
What the AI is shown for this scene
Not your whole manuscript in a chatbot. A pack built from the bible, assembled fresh for every scene and stored with every proposal so you can read exactly what it saw.
The briefWhat you said the book is when you set it up: its genres, how it should feel, who it is about, and whether you know how it ends.
The bookThe premise, the narrator's voice, and the whole structure.
Where you areWhich beat this chapter serves, and how far along the structure it sits.
The story so farWhat the reader knows and where everyone is, kept current chapter by chapter.
This sceneThe scene card: goal, conflict, outcome, turn, reveal.
The people in the roomOnly the characters present, with their voice prints, engines, and where their arcs stand.
Locked facts and open threadsCanon that must not be contradicted, and the setups this scene may or may not pay off.
The last wordsThe end of the previous prose, so the new scene picks up mid-breath.
Outlinebullets
Beat sheetscene cards
Draftfirst prose
Revisetargeted passes
Polishline level
Each chapter moves through five stations. Enter at any one. Paste a finished chapter straight into Revise. Every move takes a snapshot, so a change that made it worse is one click from undone.
Chapter four. Nothing lands without you
The AI proposes. You decide what becomes true.
A character trait, a beat, a world entry, a paragraph of prose. Every one arrives as a proposal with a diff. Accept it, edit it, or reject it. No model output writes to your book on its own, and every field and paragraph records who wrote it.
Proposal from the character engine
pending
Elara Vossstory engine: want
wants control of the kingdomwants to reverse the spell that erased her sister
Why this fits. It turns her hunger for power into grief with a cost, and ties her goal to the magic system already locked in your world: every spell demands a sacrifice.
Elara's want is now canon. A version was saved first, so the old one is one click away.
Provenance
Every paragraph and every field records whether you or a model wrote it. Filter the manuscript to what is still AI-drafted and answer honestly how much of the book is yours.
Versions everywhere
A snapshot on every accepted proposal and every move between a chapter’s stations. Diff any two and restore any one at the desk; the chapter’s, the character’s and the beat’s are filed the same way, and answer from the API today.
The Sandbox
Interview a character in their own voice, fork a scene to see what happens if she says yes, put two characters in a room. None of it touches the book until you promote it, and promoting it goes through this same review.
Chapter five. Revise, then publish
Find what is broken, then send the book out.
A finished draft is where the real work starts. DraftBloom reads the whole manuscript against the world you built and tells you where it breaks, and where a reader felt it. Then it produces what a finished book needs next.
Revise
Reader reactions
A pass that reads like a reader, not an editor, and marks the manuscript bored, lost, or hooked, paragraph by paragraph.
Continuity audit
The manuscript against your locked canon: contradicted facts, impossible timelines, a character in two places, a voice drifting from its print.
Thread tracker
Every setup that has not paid off, with the chapter it was planted in.
The writing room
Point it at a real problem, act two sags, and it returns a decision you can apply to the outline, not a chat log.
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Publish
ePubreaders
Shunnmanuscript
PDFtypeset
DOCXeditors
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Front and back matter
Title page, dedication, about the author.
The submission package
A one-page synopsis in present tense, a back-cover blurb, a query letter draft, comparable titles, and the word count rounded the way agents expect.
Share a chapter
A link that hands a chapter to a real reader and collects their reactions back into Revise.
Read as a book
Typeset everything that exists so far, at any moment. Seeing twelve thousand words look like a novel is the strongest motivator there is.
Chapter six. What it costs
Start free. Pay when the book is real.
The free plan gets you from an idea to drafted chapters without a card. Pro adds the revision and publishing stages. Premium removes the caps.
Free
$0no card needed
Build the world and draft the first chapters, no card required.
Room
1 book
6 characters per book
12 chapters per book
60 AI generations a month
60 Assistant messages a month
Includes
Characters, Setting, the idea, the structure, and the outline
The desk: drafting, the assists, and the Sandbox
Versions, provenance, Review, and your book as plain text
Annual billing and the full comparison live on the pricing page.
Chapter seven. Questions writers ask
The ones that decide whether you trust it.
Can the AI write the whole book?
Yes, scene by scene. Once the characters, the setting, and the outline exist, it can draft every scene in order, each one written from the world you built and from the scenes before it, so chapter thirty remembers chapter three. It works one scene at a time rather than in a single call, because that is what keeps the book consistent, and every scene lands only when you accept it. Every paragraph records whether you or a model wrote it.
Can it change something without telling me?
It cannot. No AI output writes to your book directly. Every suggestion arrives as a proposal with a diff, and it lands only when you accept it. Reject it and nothing happened.
What does the AI actually know when it drafts a scene?
Only what you built. The premise and voice, the structure, the story so far, the scene card, the characters in the room with their voice prints and arcs, the locked facts, the open threads, and the last words of the previous scene. Every proposal stores the exact pack it was given, so you can open it and read what the AI saw.
Do I have to build the whole world before I can write?
No. Build what the story touches. When you write a name the setting does not know yet, the desk notices and offers to draft the entry from the surrounding context. You approve it or you do not.
Can I undo something the AI made worse?
In one click. A version is filed before anything overwrites a row — every accepted proposal, every edit of your own, every autosave, every chapter save, and every move between a chapter's stations. Each one is labelled with the reason it was filed. Pick two at the desk to see what changed between them, and restore either.
Your imagination leads. DraftBloom keeps the light on.
Start with one sentence, one character, one feeling, or forty thousand words you no longer remember. End with a book that holds together.