OpenNovel field manual

Guides

Practical guides from a one-line pitch to a 100k-word serial.
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New to OpenNovel? Start hereOpenNovel Quick Start: Write Your First Chapter in 5 MinutesA complete walkthrough from sign-up to generating your first chapter's body. No writing experience required.

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Chapter-by-chapter control

Normal Mode Tutorial: From Chapter Outline to an Editable Draft

Plan one chapter step by step, keep the original options, edit the chosen beats, then draft and refine in real time.

2 min readRead more Plot-card discovery

Super Mode Tutorial: Keep Drawing Plot Cards

Start with no extra input, choose one of three plot cards, revisit earlier choices, and organize the path into chapters when ready.

1 min readRead more Plan and draft in batches

Master Mode Tutorial: Build the Book Outline and Resume Batch Drafting

Generate and edit a book-wide chapter outline, extend it safely, and draft with a stoppable, resumable batch task.

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serial

Serial Continuity: Keeping Characters and Foreshadowing Consistent

The core method for not breaking characters or forgetting foreshadowing past 300,000 words: the continuity memo, chapter summaries, and a foreshadowing ledger.

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