Getting started

1Create a project

Open the app and tap Projects → New Project. Give it a working title — you can rename it later.

Each project keeps its own chapters, world settings, characters and foreshadowing. Keep separate books in separate projects so their memory systems never mix.

2Configure an AI model

Go to Settings → AI Model and add an API endpoint. NovelForge works with any OpenAI-compatible chat completions API.

1. Base URL — for example https://api.deepseek.com/v1
2. API key — from your model provider
3. Model name — the exact model identifier your provider uses

3Fill in world settings

Open World Settings and complete the five structured fields: era, tone, core premise, world rules, and factions.

This is what the AI will lean on across the whole book. Vague settings produce vague output — spend fifteen minutes here and save hours later.

4Add your main characters

In Characters, create a profile for each major character: role, age, personality, appearance, background.

The more concrete the personality description, the less the character drifts over 50 chapters. Link characters together (rival, mentor, kin) to build the relationship graph.

5Write chapter one by hand

Open Chapters → New Chapter and write the opening yourself. This establishes voice and tone — the AI imitates what it sees.

Everything saves to your device automatically. There is no save button and no upload.

6Let AI continue

With your cursor at the end of the text, use AI Continue. The four-layer memory system pulls relevant settings, prior plot points and unresolved foreshadowing before writing.

A few things worth knowing:

• Style preset — pick a tone before generating; results differ a lot.
• De-AI pass — reduces the "obviously machine written" feel.
• Regenerate — if the result drifts, regenerate rather than editing heavily; heavy edits usually mean the setup was thin.

7Plant and track foreshadowing

Whenever you write a hint, add it to the Foreshadowing Ledger: content, chapter planted, priority.

Unresolved items are surfaced during generation, so you stop forgetting to pay them off. Mark items as resolved once the payoff scene is written.

8Batch write from an outline

Once your outline is ready, Outline Batch Writing generates several chapters in one pass. Treat the output as a draft skeleton, then refine chapter by chapter.

There is also World-to-Book, which produces a complete first draft from your settings alone — useful for breaking a blank page, not for final prose.

9Audit for consistency

Run Consistency Audit periodically. It compares chapters against your settings, character sheets and prior text, flagging timeline conflicts and characterisation breaks.

Run it after every batch-writing session — that is when contradictions creep in.

10Export and back up

Regularly use Export → TXT for the manuscript and Backup for a full data snapshot you can restore on another device.