WolfScribed

Guide

A reference for everything WolfScribed can do. Jump to any section below, or read straight through.

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Projects & Modes

Everything you write lives inside a project. When you create one, you choose a mode — Novel, Academic, Textbook, Technical, Blog, or Business — and that choice tunes the rest of the app to your format.

  • Mode changes which reference tools show up: character sheets and a Story Bible for Novel, key terms and definitions for Academic/Textbook/Technical work.
  • Mode also changes how the analysis tool reads your writing — the conventions it checks against match your format instead of treating everything like fiction.
  • You can change a project's mode later from the Document card in the editor sidebar if you picked wrong or your project evolves.
  • The project page keeps a running outline for notes and images alongside your actual documents.

The Editor

Open any document and you're in the editor, which has three tabs: Write, Edit, and Review. Each one is built for a different part of the process, so you're never fighting the interface for what you're trying to do.

  • Write is distraction-free drafting — just the page, saved automatically as you type.
  • Edit is where analysis and grammar tools live; issues surface directly on your prose and you step through them one at a time.
  • Review is read-only proofreading, and it's also where you compare and canonize What-If branches (see below)
  • Focused paragraph mode dims everything except the paragraph you're working on.
  • Typewriter scrolling keeps your cursor centered on screen as you type.
  • Sentence-length highlighting in Edit mode color-codes verbose sentences right in the text.
  • Version snapshots let you label a checkpoint before a big rewrite, so you can restore it later from history.
  • Drag and drop a DOCX, PDF, TXT, or EPUB file onto a project to import an existing manuscript in one shot.

Write mode — a distraction-free page with just your prose and a word count

Hunting for Issues

In Edit mode, click Hunt for Issues to get an AI-powered read on your writing — a score, a plain-English summary, and a breakdown of grammar, style, consistency, and formatting issues. It only ever comments on what you've written; it doesn't rewrite your prose for you.

  • Filter results by issue type — focus on just style, just grammar, just consistency, or just formatting.
  • A tone slider adjusts how gentle or blunt the feedback is.
  • Editor mode steps through each issue so you can apply or skip a fix one at a time.
  • Learning mode teaches you the pattern behind an issue, then challenges you to find the rest yourself.
  • Narrative Modes analysis (Pro) breaks your prose into seven modes — Dialogue, Action, Description, Interior Monologue, Exposition, Reflection, and Transition — so you can see what your writing is actually made of.
  • Arc Analysis and the Insights panel show trends across a whole project, not just a single document.

A finished analysis pass in Edit mode — score, confidence, and specific feedback on the passage

What-If Branching

Not sure a scene or passage is working? Fork it and try an alternate version without losing your original.

  • Select a passage in Edit mode and fork it — this creates a separate "what-if" branch.
  • Switch to Write mode to draft the alternate version on its own track.
  • Head to Review mode to compare both versions side by side.
  • From there, canonize the version you want to keep, or park the other one to the Plot Bunny Cage instead of deleting it.

Select a passage in Edit mode and a "Fork this passage" button appears

The forked branch opens in Write mode, separate from your original draft

Planning Tools

Plan before you write, or reverse-engineer structure from a draft you already have — the planning tools work either way.

  • Scene Planner lets you drag and reorder your structure: acts, chapters, and scenes for novels; sections and arguments for academic work; posts and points for blogs.
  • Each planner item tracks a title, a key field (POV, argument, or point), and a summary, and can link directly to a document.
  • Project Canvas is a visual board — place cards for characters, locations, scenes, and organizations, connect them with labeled relationships, and auto-layout the whole thing in one click.
  • Pin reference photos or mood-board images directly onto the canvas alongside your story cards.
  • Export the canvas as a high-resolution PNG to share with editors or co-writers.
  • Mark a document Final to generate an AI summary of it — these summaries power the Story Bible and keep later chapters consistent with earlier ones.
  • Extract character, location, and organization reference entries straight from a summary with one click, no copy-pasting.
  • Generate a mindmap of your Knowledge Base sheets on the canvas with "From KB," including each location's parent hierarchy.

Scene Planner — acts, chapters, and scenes laid out in order

Project Canvas — a character web with labeled relationship arrows

Knowledge Base

A structured reference for everyone and everything in your story — Characters, Locations, and Organizations sheets, plus any custom categories you define yourself.

  • Extract entries automatically with Track from summaries (from your finalized chapters) or Extract from Notes (from Lore Notes — see below)
  • Sync All Sheets is the fastest way to populate every built-in sheet at once; running Track from summaries on an individual sheet afterward can pick up anything Sync All missed.
  • Merge duplicate entries instead of ending up with several near-identical characters — the app also flags likely duplicates for you after an extraction pass.
  • Every entry has an Aliases/Nicknames field and a freeform Notes field for anything that doesn't fit the other sections.
  • Add freeform tags to characters, locations, and organizations, separate from their Role/Type field.
  • Link entries to each other — characters to organizations or locations, locations to organizations, and so on — then filter a sheet by what it's linked to.
  • Locations also support a "part of" parent hierarchy (a district that's part of a city, for instance), filterable separately from Linked to.
  • Move an entry to a different sheet if it was logged under the wrong type — look for the ↗ icon on any entry.
  • Define your own custom categories — Events, Creatures, Magic Systems, whatever your project needs — each with a name and a one-line description that guides what gets extracted.
  • Download your whole knowledge base as a Markdown file at any time.

Lore Notes

A dedicated space for established worldbuilding and character notes — separate from the project Outline, which stays a rough scratch space read only by Brainstorm Chat.

  • Type notes directly, or upload an existing file — DOCX, PDF, TXT, Markdown, RTF, ODT, Fountain, or FDX — and its content becomes a new note.
  • Keep multiple named notes rather than one long document, so you can manage and update each one independently.
  • Extract from Notes on any Knowledge Base sheet pulls entries from everything in Lore Notes in a single pass.
  • Open Lore Notes from the Lore Notes button on your project page.

Export Your Project

Turn a finished project into a single downloadable file, ready to send to an agent or editor, or upload to a self-publishing platform. Requires a trial or paid plan.

  • Choose Word, PDF, EPUB, or Markdown — each includes a full table of contents.
  • Submission Manuscript preset matches standard agent/editor formatting: Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, page numbers.
  • Publish-ready Book preset is styled for self-publishing — a cover page, a title page, and formatted chapter headings.
  • Build the table of contents from your Scene Planner chapters, or from a flat list of your documents in order — pick whichever fits your project.
  • Review and edit the title, author, and genre for this export only, without changing anything saved on the project itself.
  • Find it from the Export Project button on your project page.

AI Tools

Beyond the analysis tool, a few other AI features are built into the writing process.

  • Brainstorm Chat is a thinking partner, not a ghostwriter — it asks questions and stress-tests your logic, but redirects you back to the page if you ask it to write something for you.
  • Brainstorm Chat has a daily message cap on trial and paid plans (shown in the chat header, and it resets at midnight UTC); it isn't available on the free tier.
  • Conversation history for Brainstorm Chat syncs across your devices and is kept for 90 days, up to 20 saved conversations.
  • Grammar checking runs inline as you type, separate from the full Hunt for Issues pass.

Brainstorm Chat — a thinking partner with starter questions about your project

Plot Bunny Cage

A holding pen for ideas and fragments that don't have a home yet — accessible from the Plot Bunny Cage link in the nav, across all your projects.

  • Anything parked here can reference which project it came from, so you can trace it back later.
  • A common way ideas end up here: parking the losing side of a What-If branch instead of deleting it.
  • Use it for scraps, alternate scenes, or story seeds you want to revisit in a future project.

Beta Readers

Share a project with real people — friends, a writing partner, or a critique group — for feedback outside the AI tools.

  • Invite readers from your project page; they get a clean, distraction-free reading view with no editing access.
  • Readers can leave inline comments on any passage, and you're notified as soon as they do.
  • Beta readers only need a free WolfScribed account — no paid plan required on their end.
  • Manage or remove reader access at any time from the project page.

Howl

WolfScribed's built-in reading community. Publishing a chapter here is free on every plan.

  • Readers discover work by searching, or filtering by type, fandom, and genre.
  • Original fiction and fan fiction are both welcome — tag your fandom and set a content rating.
  • Readers can follow your story, comment chapter by chapter, and give "yips" (likes)
  • Your Howl dashboard shows your published works; your library tracks what you're following and reading.

Forum

A community discussion space, separate from any single project or manuscript.

  • Browse categories, start threads, and reply to ongoing discussions.
  • Threads and replies can be voted on.

Your Wolf & Habit Tools

A set of features built around keeping a daily writing habit going.

  • Set your own daily word goal — hit it and your wolf companion eats; exceed it by 50% and they eat even better, earning bonus growth.
  • A fresh daily writing prompt also feeds your wolf if you complete it, regardless of word count.
  • Your wolf grows through visible stages the more consistently you write, and can be named and shared.
  • Milestone badges mark achievements like your first 10 sessions, 50,000 words, or a 30-day streak — each links to a writing guide about what got you there.

Account & Plans

Manage your plan, billing, and profile from the Account page.

  • Every new account starts with a 7-day free trial with full Pro access, no card required.
  • After the trial, plans are Free or Paid — Account shows your current tier, trial status, and usage against your plan's limits.
  • Manage or update billing through the Stripe portal, linked from the Account page.