novel-architect

Interactive novel planning uses step-by-step dialogue to map your North Star, genre, voice, and worldbuilding before any files are written. This approach reduces project drift by accumulating sections in memory and requiring your ongoing approval to steadily assemble a complete manuscript scaffold.

You start novel scaffolding by providing a lowercase-hyphenated project name, a language, and a short core idea. The skill then guides you through a step-by-step interview to shape your theme, timeline, and outline before drafting chapters and generating the full folder structure.

Novel project scaffolding generates a structured directory including Braindump.md, Genre.md, Style.md, Characters.md, Worldbuilding.md, Timeline.md, alongside Outline/, Chapters/, Research/, Archive/, and Assets/ folders.

Yes, novel creation supports parallel drafting and reviews to accelerate manuscript generation. The workflow allows in-depth character and worldbuilding data generation alongside drafting, reviewing sections in memory before writing the final files.

Interactive novel planning requires no external dependencies or specific writing software. You only need to provide a project name, language, and core idea to begin the interview-driven workflow that builds your manuscript scaffold directly.