Pipeline · Scenes

Scenes — the workspace

This is where you’ll spend most of your time. With the plot fully worked out in Structure, the Scenes screen turns each scene into prose — one scene at a time, through three short steps. It’s two panels: a scene tree on the left to move around your book, and the step you’re on in the middle.

Where it fits

Everything before this stage was planning — the world, the StoryGraph, the chapters and scenes and beats. Nothing you did earlier was prose. The Scenes workspace is where the plan becomes writing: you take a scene, confirm its concept, generate its blueprint, and render the prose. Do that scene by scene and the book fills in.

Three steps, per scene

Pick a scene in the left tree and the middle panel walks it through three steps, shown as a stepper across the top. Each step feeds the next — you don’t skip ahead:

Scene Intent— the conceptBronze / Silver

The scene’s plan in a few paragraphs — its people, place and time, what happens beat by beat, and the note it ends on. Carried over from the beats you tuned in Structure, and fully editable here.

Contract— the blueprintBronze / Silver

The Intent turned into a precise, structured brief the writer works from — the facts, the order of events, the rules this scene must obey. This is what keeps the prose faithful to your plot.

Text— the proseGold

The finished scene, written from the Contract in your book’s voice — then cleaned of machine tics and polished. This is the only step that produces reader-facing prose.

The names change with your role: an author sees Scene Intent · Contract · Text; the engine calls the same three vector · bible · render. Same steps, plainer words.

The scene tree & your progress

The left panel lists every act, chapter and scene, each with a status dot — whether it has an Intent, a Contract, and finished Text. Click any scene to open it; the workspace jumps to the furthest step it has reached, so a half-done scene opens where you left off. With no scene selected, the middle shows a book summary — scenes done, contracts generated, total words, and a per-chapter progress bar — so you always know how far along the whole book is.

Which tier, where

Spend Gold only on the prose. The first two steps — Intent and Contract — are still structural work: a fast tier (Bronze or Silver) is plenty and keeps costs down. Save Gold for Text, the one step a reader actually sees. Bringing your own AI key (BYOK) works at every step and shows up as a fourth tier when it’s configured.

The pages that follow open each step in turn — starting with Scene Intent, the concept the whole scene is built from.