Short fiction

Short fiction is a single, self-contained story. Because it is narrative, it carries an invented world and internal canon that the continuity coaches watch for you.

The documents it offers

When you add a document to the project you choose its type. Each type shapes the stages the document moves through:

• Story — the self-contained story — the default document type.
• Scene Card — a beat-level plan: goal, conflict, turn, outcome.
• Character Sheet — a living profile — role, want vs need, arc, voice.

Each document type has its own page — find them in the sidebar under this content type — describing the stages it moves through and where it fits.

A blank document is available in every content type too, for when you want an empty page with no structure imposed.

The stages a document moves through

Every document moves through the same shape: Ideation, Outline, Draft, Revision, Final edit. After Ideation you can move back and forth freely — jump to whichever stage the work needs.

The coaches that apply

Beyond the coaches every content type gets, these are recommended for this kind of writing (you can switch any coach on or off from the Coaches tab):

• Consistency coach — checks the draft against the rules you have established.
• Character voice coach — checks whether a character stays true to their profile.
• Readability & Skimmability — keep the prose easy to read.
• Fact-checker — looks at any real-world claims in grounded fiction.

Every content type also gets the coaches that apply to all writing: the select-text Coach for focused feedback on a passage, VoiceCheck and StyleCheck against your voice and style guide, and the free grammar and spelling checks.