A quick guide to bookmoth Narration: Stu McCardle Welcome to bookmoth. A place to focus on your writing, shape your book, and see the whole thing more clearly. Your writing profile puts your voice at the centre of any AI drafting or revision. Use that support as much or as little as it helps. You are always holding the reins. Here is the workspace. Manuscript is the page, with Chapters on the left and the Editor on the right. Open either panel when it is useful, or enter Focus to clear the space. Plan gives you the chapter structure and the scenes inside it. Brief holds the direction of the book, alongside your writing examples and profile. Codex keeps your characters, places, relationships and story details connected. The chapters that follow take each part a little further. Watch from the start, or jump to the section you need. Start with pages that sound like you. Open Brief, then Writing examples. Paste an extract, give it a name and choose Save Extract. You can also upload a file here too. Use writing you trust, with a mix of description and dialogue. Back in Brief, choose Analyse. When it's ready, open your Writing Profile. Read what bookmoth has noticed about your sentences, dialogue and the way you handle a scene. Treat it as a working description, not a verdict. Choose Edit and correct anything that misses the mark. Here I'm making the instruction about physical detail more specific. Close the profile to keep the change. Those instructions guide AI drafting and revision whenever you choose to use them. A brief gives your ideas a useful shape, wherever you are in the book. Open Brief and put down the idea you have, even if it starts as a couple of sentences. Open the editor and ask it to help you explore what matters. Here I'm asking about Alan: what changes for him, and what the reader should feel. Answer the questions with the direction you want to pursue. When the editor proposes a working brief, read it before choosing Apply. And it brings the premise, characters, emotional movement and tone into one place. Refine the wording in Brief, or keep the conversation going to build it. Use that direction to explore a chapter plan, then revisit it as the book develops. The editor helps you see the possibilities, and the decisions stay with you. The Plan gives you two views of the same story. Start in Chapters for the big picture. Open a chapter to refine its summary and what it needs to achieve. Work from the ideas already on the page, or use the brief to explore a different structure with AI. Switch to Scene view for the smaller movements. Expand a chapter and open a scene. You can give it a clear beat, a goal, a conflict or a turn. Here I'm sharpening what Alan wants from the encounter. Drag chapters or scenes when the order needs work. The manuscript follows the chapter order too. And use Undo if a move is wrong. Both views stay connected, helping you see the book more clearly as its shape changes. Open Codex to keep characters, places and story facts together. Select a character to open their details. The main Voice box describes how they narrate in chapters told from their point of view. In Character sheet, Voice holds example lines of dialogue, one per line. Those dialogue samples take priority over conflicting descriptions in your brief. Open Relationships, add a relation and choose the linked entry. The visibility menu decides whether AI reads an entry always, when mentioned, or never. To build from existing prose, choose Scan chapters, select the chapters and run the scan. Review the suggestions. Accept what fits, reject errors and resolve conflicts before they become facts. For LitRPG, switch on This book tracks stats in the Codex tools. Open a character's Stats and start a sheet. Set a value at the chapter where it changes, then use Progress to see how it develops. The Codex keeps the book's details visible and gives AI the context you choose to share. The manuscript editor works beside the chapter, with the surrounding prose in view. Open Editor and ask a specific question: where does this opening feel slow? Use the response as a second opinion on the passage. Select a sentence to focus the conversation. The selection appears above the chat, showing exactly what you are discussing. To explore different wording, choose Rewrite this. Add an instruction, generate a proposal and compare it with the original. Here I'm tightening a long sentence while keeping its physical details. Choose Keep if that version serves the scene, or close it and continue exploring. The version menu brings earlier drafts back into view. A conversation, a comparison or a focused revision: bring in the support that helps, and decide what belongs in the book. bookmoth fits around your book, from an early idea to a full manuscript. Start with the page. Close Chapters and Editor, enter Focus, and stay with the writing. For a wider view, open Plan to see the structure and Codex to keep people and story details connected. Bring the editor in for a question about pacing, clarity or continuity. Use its response to decide what the passage needs. AI drafting can help test a different pace or structure, too. Keep earlier versions and compare the possibilities. A second opinion, a passage to explore, or a full draft: use as much or as little AI as helps. You are always holding the reins. Export when you're ready to share. Steps 1. Welcome and workspace tour 2. Build your Writing Profile 3. Build a brief with the editor 4. Work with chapters and scenes 5. Use the Codex: voices, connections and stats 6. Work with the manuscript editor 7. Shape the book your way Before you start Watch through or jump to the chapter that helps. Novel Writing Profile analysis needs a Brief of at least 500 words. Prepared teaching book and AI replies. Processing waits are shortened. Music: Some Light by Flint. 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