My niche is for historical fiction. Specifically the American Revolutionary War and Civil War. I was using the literary fiction format, which has been deleted. I am needing to add some realistic battle scenes amid such along with my story line. Of the options left, which would be the best for me to use? I am thinking thriller at this time.

I’m working on becoming a better and more consistent writer, and one of the reasons I joined this community was to connect with other authors who are figuring things out too. I’m interested in sharing ideas, talking about what’s working, being honest about the parts that are difficult, and learning from each other along the way. I just enjoy conversations about writing and the process behind it. What’s something you’ve been struggling with in your writing lately?

I thought I would try this facility and have had three goes, but it doesn't seem to work. I highlight the text I want changed, hit the rewrite button and all it does is give me back the same text but with all the line breaks removed. Am I doing something wrong?

~80% of the time when people complain that BookNova writes poorly, the problem is actually their own custom story bible. More often than not, they're filling it with noise rather than the actual story. The classic mistake is writing ChatGPT prompts and bossing BookNova around on how to write, what to write, and what to leave out. 🚫 BookNova is not ChatGPT. You do not give it commands. You do not tell it what to do and what not to do. That is exactly why there is a manual chapter count, a length setting, a tone field and a genre picker. Those decisions are made with controls, not with sentences. The story field is for your story. When you fill it with instructions instead, they get read as if they were plot, or they get dropped, and whatever part of your actual idea was buried inside them gets dropped along with them. That is how a good premise turns into a mediocre book. If you love writing prompts, keep writing with ChatGPT. You genuinely do not need BookNova for that. BookNova is for people who want to describe a story and receive a finished book. Here is what that looks like in practice. ❌ DON'T: commands to an AI "Write a fast paced psychological thriller for the US market. The finished novel must work as a complete standalone." ✅ DO: what actually happens "Clara arrives at her sister's flat and finds two coffee cups on the table. Her sister lived alone. The next morning the police tell her the flat was rented under a different name." ❌ DON'T: rules about what to avoid "Do not reveal that the sister was involved. Do not introduce the villain late. No secret twins." ✅ DO: the fact hiding inside the rule "The sister was not involved, she was hiding from someone. The person behind it is Clara's oldest friend, who is there from chapter one and helps with the search." A rule almost always contains a fact. Write the fact. The rule gets thrown away, the fact does not. ❌ DON'T: word counts and chapter counts "Approximately 82,000 to 88,000 words, divided into roughly 45 to 55 relatively short chapters."

How do I get it to stay on track with the book I'm actually writing, not the one it thinks it am. Here's what I mean. As I move onto the next chapter, you can see this summary of the last one. The issue is, none of that happened. We went another way and Sail apparently doesn't know that. Even after I wrote it and everything.