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The Synopsis step

Step 2 of the setup wizard. This is where your book’s synopsis lives — the fuller, detailed plot. It arrives here already written if you expanded a seed in the Concept step, or you can paste or type your own. Alongside it you set the story’s main conflict, by hand or with one click.

What’s on this page

The wizard header — Synopsis is step 2 (Concept is now ticked).
A “Book Synopsis” field — the detailed plot, up to 5000 words.
A “Main Conflict” field with an “AI Suggest” button (a quality tier + coin cost) to draft it for you.
Back, and “Next: World →” to move on.

How to use it

1Review the synopsis that came from your seed — or paste one you already have.
2Write the main conflict, or press “AI Suggest” to draft it from the synopsis.
3Press “Next: World →” to carry both forward and start building the world.

Where this fits

Synopsis is step 2, the middle rung of the plot ladder: more detailed than the seed, less hands-on than StoryGraph. If you pressed “Expand to Synopsis” in the Concept step, the result is already waiting here; if you skipped that, this is where you paste your own. Either way, what you leave here is the plot the world, structure and prose build on.

Book synopsis

Book synopsissynopsis · textarea

The detailed plot of the book.

AffectsThe fuller plot the rest of setup and the writing draw on — richer than the seed. It’s saved onto the project and feeds the world, structure and prose downstream.

Use itAim for a focused synopsis — around 2000 words is the sweet spot (the counter turns orange above it). You can go up to 5000, but tighter usually reads better downstream.

Past 5000 words the field stops accepting input — that’s the hard ceiling.

Main conflict

Main conflictmain_conflict · textarea

The central conflict that drives the book.

AffectsNames the core tension the plot turns on. Written by hand, or drafted for you from the synopsis with “AI Suggest”.

Use itOne or two sentences: who wants what, and what stands in the way. If you’re unsure, let AI Suggest propose one from your synopsis and edit it.

AI Suggest drafts the main conflict from your synopsis in one click. The pills beside it pick the quality tier (Bronze · Silver · Gold) and show the coin cost before you commit; with your own key connected (BYOK) it runs on your key at no coin cost. Edit whatever it proposes — it’s a starting point, not the final word.

“Synopsis and Characters” — where did the characters go? The heading is a holdover. Character work no longer happens on this step — it lives in the World step (next), where you create and manage the cast. Here you only set the synopsis and the main conflict.

“← Back” returns to the Concept seed; “Next: World →” saves the synopsis and conflict and moves you to the World step.