2:09 task walkthrough
Follow one useful task, then try it with your own material.
Step 1
An outline is easier to use when the story direction is already clear. Use PlotArchitect to compare premise alternatives if you still need to choose the main conflict or ending. Then bring approved beats into Outline Expander. This guide uses a prepared fictional project and current workspace references. The browser app and the separately sold installable skill are different formats, so check which access you have first.
Step 2
Name the book and add the major beats, intended ending, and facts the plan must preserve. Choose a chapter target and an optional framework when those help your process. An approved premise brief can be imported when you use that companion workflow. Do not let a missing detail become an unnoticed story decision: keep open questions visible until you choose an answer.
Step 3
Generate or manually develop the chapter roadmap, then read it as a sequence of causes and consequences. Each chapter needs a reason to follow the previous one and a change that gives the reader a reason to continue. Check the opening, midpoint, crisis, and ending against the story you approved. Revise the plan before expanding weak chapter summaries into more scenes.
Step 4
Expand a chapter into scene drafts and review the character's goal, opposition, choice, and resulting change. Edit the text, move a scene, or regenerate a selected part when appropriate. Keep earlier versions recoverable. A longer plan is not automatically more useful: combine scenes that do the same work, and split a scene only when there is a meaningful new turn.
Step 5
Use the setup and payoff tools to connect an early detail to a later consequence. Review unresolved threads and make sure the ending earns what the beginning promises. Names, relationships, and established facts should remain consistent. Manual editing does not require an AI key; generated revisions use your selected provider and its separate usage charges.
Step 6
Read the finished roadmap from beginning to end, not just the scenes you edited most recently. Export a readable copy and save a portable project backup before switching browsers. Copy material into active Book DNA only when you deliberately want that handoff. You are ready to draft when you can explain what changes in each scene and how those choices lead to the ending.