novel-studio

Create or edit character notes with full profiles, voice guides, and relationship maps.

Run the 5-stage critique pipeline on a chapter — critics, judges, and implementers refine the draft.

Deep concept exploration — generate concept variations, conflict webs, stakes maps, and thematic frameworks before outlining.

Initialize an Obsidian vault with the Novel Studio folder structure, templates, and Novel State dashboard.

Generate or refine the story outline, act structure, chapter beats, and plot threads.

Generate structured research briefs for factual accuracy, genre conventions, and character expertise. Populates the Research/ folder.

Show a progress dashboard — chapter statuses, word counts, plot threads, critique progress, character coverage.

Run the 3-stage pre-writing QA pipeline — validators and judges assess narrative architecture, character readiness, and world consistency before drafting begins.

Create or edit world-building notes — locations, magic systems, factions, history, and lore.

Draft a chapter using multi-agent collaboration, grounded in vault context (characters, world, plot).

Three critics for Stage 1 of the critique pipeline — Pacing, Arc, and Scene Necessity. Evaluates plot and structure.

Three critics for Stage 2 of the critique pipeline — Character Arc, Relationship, and Voice. Evaluates character development.

Three critics for Stage 3 of the critique pipeline — Craft, Show-Don't-Tell, and Sensory. Evaluates prose quality.

Three critics for Stage 4 of the critique pipeline — Authenticity, Subtext, and Exposition. Evaluates dialogue quality.

Three critics for Stage 5 of the critique pipeline — Fact Checker, Knowledge State, and Timeline. Read-only audit with no implementation.

Three implementer agents — Rewriter, Continuity, and Quality Gate. Applies approved changes after judge voting in Stages 1-4.

Three judges who vote on critic/validator findings — Literary Editor, Target Reader, and Devil's Advocate. Used in all critique stages (1-5) and pre-writing validation stages (A-C).

Forecasts pacing issues by analyzing act proportions, chapter purpose, action/reflection balance, and subplot weight.

Detects unresolved setups, dead-end threads, logical impossibilities, and missing cause-effect chains in the story outline.

Audits stakes escalation, tension variety, turning points, and protagonist risk across the full story arc.

Validates that all major characters have complete arcs with clear start/growth/end states, thematic connection, and genuine agency.

Validates that character relationships are bidirectional, conflict-generating, evolving, and fully connected.

Audits character voice profiles for completeness, distinctiveness, and consistency with backstory and personality.

Audits magic, technology, and other rule systems for specificity, internal consistency, and resistance to plot-convenient exceptions.

Validates that all locations in the beat sheet have notes, sensory details are sufficient, and world-building supports the story's conflicts.

Checks timeline feasibility — travel times, parallel plotlines, chronological consistency, and seasonal/temporal references.

Activates when the user is working on fiction writing, novel drafting, character development, world-building, story outlining, chapter critique, or creative writing in an Obsidian vault.

3 hooks across 3 events