story-planning

Story planning for serialized web novels is facilitated through an eight-phase interactive dialogue that guides ideation and world-building to produce a comprehensive planning document before you start writing.

The interactive dialogue process for story planning asks one question per message to guide you through eight phases, progressively building your story's world, characters, and outline to ensure deep narrative development.

To start planning a new web novel from scratch, input a book name or inspiration keyword to initiate the eight-phase dialogue, which will explore your motivations and settings to build a complete story world.

Yes, the story planning process auto-saves your draft progress directly to the books/{book name}/drafts/story-planning.md file, ensuring your world-building data and narrative outlines are securely stored throughout the dialogue.

Yes, you can use the generated story plan to initialize a novel writing workflow by integrating the outputted story-planning.md file directly with the /write-novel init command to generate structured phases including characters and outlines.

A limitation of using an eight-phase dialogue for story ideation is that it requires progressive commitment to a strict one-question-per-message rule, which may slow down rapid brainstorming for authors seeking immediate, unstructured world-building output.