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Getting Started Guide

How to use WriteWithPaige

Every major feature — what it does, how to use it, and when to reach for it. Write a novel, line-edit it, hear it read aloud, or play it as an adventure.

Step-by-step guides

New here? Start with this.

  1. 1Open the workspace and create your first project.
  2. 2Tell Paige about your story in chat — or just say “help me start a fantasy novel”.
  3. 3Add a few Story Bible entries (or let agentic mode build them) and write your first chapter.
  4. 4Would rather play than write? Start an Adventure and Paige runs the world for you.

Story Bible

Your story's memory

The Story Bible tracks your characters, locations, items, lore, factions, and plot arcs. Paige reads every entry before each reply, so names, backstories, and timelines stay consistent across your whole project.

  1. 1Open the Bible tab in your workspace sidebar.
  2. 2Add entries — characters, locations, items, lore, factions, plot arcs.
  3. 3Paige reads them before every reply, and updates them as the story grows.

When to use it

  • *Start early. Even three entries keep names and timelines consistent.
  • *With agentic mode on, Paige maintains entries for you as chapters land.
  • *Stuck? Ask "what do you know about my villain?" — she answers from the Bible.

Chapters

Write books, not chats

The workspace gives you a real chapter editor — drafts, revisions, word counts, and reordering. Write yourself, or ask Paige to draft a chapter while keeping continuity with everything before it.

  1. 1Create chapters in the sidebar — drag to reorder anytime.
  2. 2Write in the editor, or ask Paige to draft a chapter for you.
  3. 3Track status from Draft to Revision to Final, and lock finished chapters so AI never edits them.

When to use it

  • *Anything longer than a scene belongs in a chapter, not the chat.
  • *Locked chapters are still read for continuity — they just can’t be changed.
  • *Export your full manuscript anytime. Your work is yours.

Agentic Mode

Paige takes action

With agentic mode on, Paige doesn’t just answer — she acts on your project. Say "write chapter 4" and she drafts it, updates the Story Bible, and keeps the timeline consistent, then shows you exactly what changed.

  1. 1Toggle Agentic Mode on in the chat.
  2. 2Ask for outcomes: "write chapter 4", "fix the timeline", "add this character".
  3. 3Review what she changed — you always have final say.

When to use it

  • *Turn it on when you want chapters drafted and the Bible maintained for you.
  • *Turn it off when you just want to brainstorm without anything changing.
  • *Treat her changes like a co-author’s — skim them before moving on.

Adventures

Play the story instead

An Adventure turns a world into something you play. Paige runs it as your game master: she writes the scene, then offers three choices, or you type any move you want instead. She plays the world and everyone in it, and never decides what your character does. Every scene can get a picture and be read aloud, and the cast is drawn from the looks in your Story Bible.

  1. 1Go to Adventures and describe your setup in a line: who you are, where you are, what is wrong.
  2. 2Check the world Paige builds: title, opening, your character sheet, and the cast. Edit anything, or reroll it.
  3. 3Play. Pick one of the three choices, type your own move, or use the direct-the-story box to steer from behind the curtain.

When to use it

  • *Already have a project? Use the "Run as an adventure" button under its Bible — your characters come with you.
  • *Want dice, a character sheet and combat? Pick Tabletop when you set it up. That is where the old Campaign mode lives now.
  • *Want a character to look the same each time? Give them a look (hair, build, clothes) in the Faces panel. Every picture draws from it.
  • *Saved a good run? Bookmark it as a chapter and it lands in your manuscript.
  • *Wandered somewhere you did not want? "Start over" clears the transcript but keeps the world and Bible.
Start an adventure
Turn 7 · The Lantern Road
Get through the gate before dawn

“The guard lowers her lantern until the light finds your face, and something in her expression changes. She knows you. Behind her, the gate is already closing…”

1Say her name out loud and watch what it costs her
2Slip past while she is still deciding — and owe her later
3Tell her the truth, all of it, and hope the gate stays open

…or type your own move.

Edit Mode

A line edit of the whole book

Switch a chapter into Edit Mode and Paige line-edits it as tracked changes, each one a suggestion you accept or reject on its own. Because she has read the whole project, she catches the things a grammar checker cannot: a character who sounds wrong, a repeated beat, a scene that drags.

  1. 1Open a chapter and click Edit Mode.
  2. 2Read the suggested changes one at a time — accept, reject, or edit the wording yourself.
  3. 3Check the prose notes and metrics underneath for pacing, repetition, and dialogue balance.

When to use it

  • *Run it after a draft is finished, not while you are still writing it.
  • *Nothing changes until you accept it — a rejected suggestion leaves your text untouched.
  • *Ask for a whole-book pass when you want one voice across every chapter.
More about Edit Mode
Chapter 9 · 12 suggestions

She walked very quickly fast down the hall, and she was thinking about turning over what the letter had said.

Prose notes

Mara’s voice slips into Dorian’s cadence for three paragraphs here.

“Lantern” appears 6 times in this chapter, 4 of them on one page.

AcceptReject

Muses

Pick Paige's voice

Muses are writing personalities — over 50 of them, each tuned for a genre or style. Pick up to two and their styles blend, or build a custom Muse with your own tone, pacing rules, and even forbidden words.

  1. 1Open the Muse selector in chat or the workspace.
  2. 2Pick up to two Muses — their styles blend.
  3. 3Or create your own: tone, genre, pacing, forbidden words.

When to use it

  • *Switch Muses between projects — thriller pacing for one, literary prose for another.
  • *A custom Muse with your rules is the fastest way to get "your voice" back.
  • *Browse community Muses for ready-made styles.

Brand Projects

On-brand, every time

The workspace isn’t just for fiction. Brand projects give marketing teams the same memory system, retooled for business: a Brand Bible holds your voice, audience personas, product briefs, messaging frameworks, competitor intel, and style rules — and Paige writes every blog post, email, and social caption against it.

  1. 1Create a new project and choose Brand instead of Fiction.
  2. 2Fill your Brand Bible: voice, audience personas, messaging, style rules.
  3. 3Ask for content — blogs, emails, social — Paige writes in your brand voice.

When to use it

  • *Your brand voice and style rules ride along with every draft, automatically.
  • *Repurpose one document across channels — blog to LinkedIn to email.
  • *Ask "check this against our brand guidelines" before anything ships.

Also worth knowing

Smaller features that make the workspace feel like home.

Pictures

Highlight a passage in the editor and click Visualize to see it. Characters are drawn from the looks in your Story Bible. A picture takes about a minute.

Global Memory

What Paige remembers about you and your preferences, across every project. Edit it in Settings → Memory.

Bring Your Own Key

Prefer your own AI provider? Add your API key in Settings → AI Settings and choose any model you like.

Export & Backup

Download chapters, Story Bible, chats, and Muses as a ZIP anytime from Settings → Your Data.

Cloud Sync

Premium projects sync automatically — pick up on any device exactly where you left off.

Project Management

Chapters, notes, and files organized per project in the workspace sidebar.

The Workspace

Everything lives at /write — editor, Bible, chat, and settings in one place.

Ready to write?

The fastest way to learn the workspace is to start a story in it.

Open the Workspace Read the FAQ