The AI features
Everything the AI does in JustWrite, in one place. Every feature below is a row under Settings → AI → Routing by feature with its own engine preset — one model can serve all of them, or a heavy feature can point at a stronger model while quick ones stay local. How routing, presets and providers work is AI providers; this page is what the features are.
Writing
Section titled “Writing”- Writer actions — the AI menu in each scene’s strip: Rewrite, Expand, Tighten, Continue, Describe, plus all Line edits.
- Scene drafting — Draft from plan: a scene drafted from its Summary and the story context, from the cursor to its end. Only in a book with AI scene drafting on (Settings → Project). Its own row, so it can run on a larger or online model. See Draft from plan.
Drafting tools
Section titled “Drafting tools”- Research feel — a structured sensory pack (smell / sound / touch / …) for a selected subject — the editor’s “Research feel” modal.
- Unstuck — five ways to unblock the current scene: goal shift, interrupt, setting, reveal, time cut.
- Brainstorm — the Brainstorm view: name / title / freeform idea generation with thumbs-up steering. Also runs Name ideas beside a character’s, location’s, object’s or group’s name, Title ideas beside the book’s, a chapter’s or a scene’s title, and Suggest characters… and Suggest locations… on those lists.
Analysis
Section titled “Analysis”- Critique — the Critique modal: line-level Notes (flags / suggestions / observations) and the Structure pass (tension, hook, pacing, ending).
- Multi-reader panel — four reader personas (genre reader, literary critic, agent intern, book-club reader) react to a chapter in parallel.
Whole book
Section titled “Whole book”- Plot-hole audit — whole-book continuity scan for contradictions, timeline issues, and character-knowledge errors.
- Reverse outline — reads the whole draft and produces the act structure the book actually has: plot points, act breaks, per-chapter beats.
- Beat sheet — maps your draft to Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, or 7-Point Story Structure beats.
- Marketing pack — logline, back-cover blurbs, synopsis, and elevator pitch for querying and pitching.
- Foreshadowing scan — whole-book scan for setups that may not have paid off.
- Reader knowledge — tracks dramatic irony: what the reader knows vs. what the POV character knows, chapter by chapter.
- Voice drift — diagnoses what shifted between an outlier chapter and your baseline voice, in the Analysis dashboard.
Characters
Section titled “Characters”- Entity sweep — scans chapters for new characters, locations and objects to add to the story bible.
- Character audit — per-character consistency audit (profile + their scenes → flagged actions) on the Characters view.
- Character profile — drafts a character’s profile fields (description, motivation, arc, backstory) from their scenes (Fill from book), from your description (From a description), or one sheet section at a time (Draft this section) — reviewed before anything saves.
- Character voice — drafts how a character speaks (register, rhythm, sample lines) from their actual dialogue, or from your description — reviewed before anything saves.
- Relationship arc — chapter-by-chapter warmth / tension / power tracking for a pair of characters.
Planning
Section titled “Planning”- Planning — Summarize this scene (the scene’s Links panel) drafts its Summary from the prose; Fill this template for my story (a strand’s ✨ menu on the Plot board) writes each template beat’s note for your book; Draft from the premise drafts the Fabula or the Setting document. Each is reviewed before anything saves, and each has its own row to route or tune. A strand’s Suggest next beats and Plot twists, and the editor’s Next plot beats and Plot twists, run on Brainstorm.
Story world
Section titled “Story world”- Story-world sheets — drafts a location’s, object’s or group’s sheet from your description (Draft with AI → From a description, or the describe box) — its Description too while it has none — and a worldbuilding article’s body from its title and summary (Draft with AI on the article) — reviewed before anything saves. Each of the four has its own row under it (Locations, Objects, Groups, Worldbuilding), so you can route or tune them apart.
- Ask the book — RAG question/answer over your manuscript, in the chat panel.
- Character chat — the chat panel’s “Talk to a character” mode: first-person, in-voice answers from your cast.
- Resume briefing — generates the Home “Previously on your novel” recap card.
- Session recap — the end-of-day “Wrap up session” recap with open-thread suggestions.
Story context
Section titled “Story context”When the AI drafts a character it reads your book’s frame: the premise, genre, world rules, the Setting document and the main cast. The editor’s prose actions — Rewrite, Expand, Tighten, Continue, Describe, Rewrite with direction…, Continue with direction…, Write dialogue… — read it too, plus the scene they work in: its Summary, what its Links panel ties to it, its beats and notes, and how the previous scene ends (see Writing). Only what’s relevant is sent, and never anything marked Exclude from AI. Settings → AI → Writing AI → Story context sets the most of the model’s context window those notes may take (15% to start). On a model with a small window a lower share leaves more room for the reply; on a large one it rarely matters.
Where each one runs
Section titled “Where each one runs”Settings → AI → Routing by feature shows every row above with the preset it resolves to right now. Open a row to read and edit its prompt, test it in the Lab, and point it at a different preset — the mechanics are covered in AI providers.