Writing Style

A Writing Style is the prose style you set for each manuscript. The agent reads the style assigned to the manuscript when it writes a draft, does Revision, and gives Feedback.

• A Writing Style records how the manuscript is written — point of view, sentence rhythm and paragraphing, how dialogue and description are handled, pacing, and formatting such as how a scene break is marked. Facts about the story itself belong in the World.
• A manuscript has one Writing Style, and one style can be shared by several manuscripts.
• Each Writing Style has a Preset — Novel, Web novel, or General — that sets the built-in craft rules it starts from.
• The agent can read the style out of your own writing and write it for you. (See Agent tools.)

Creating a new Writing Style

There are two places to create one.

• While creating a manuscript: Assign it in the Writing Style field of the manuscript creation window.
• From the style list: Press + at the top of the list — under Add writing style in the sidebar, or under Writing Style › below — and enter a name. A new style is created, assigned to that manuscript, and opened for editing straight away.

Swapping in a different style

Open Writing Style › from the ⋯ on a manuscript card or beside the manuscript table's title, or from the ⋯ on the Writing Style row in the sidebar, and the style list unfolds with a check on the style assigned now. Pick another style to switch to it. One style can be shared by several manuscripts, so a whole series can run on a single style.

Can Documents follow a Writing Style too?

Yes. Pick the Writing Style to follow when you have the agent write a document, and it writes in that style.