Drafting with AI

These tools all run through the AI panel beside the editor. Each one is grounded in your Atlas and prose, so what comes back fits the story you are already telling. They run on your own key, like every AI feature.

The panel

Open it with the AI icon in the editor’s top bar, or press Ctrl+Shift+Space (⌘⇧Space on a Mac). The icon’s tooltip names whichever model you have connected, so it reads “Compose with Claude” or “Compose with GPT” depending on your key. Everything below is a button in that one panel, and the panel splits into two halves: the tools on the left write something new at your cursor, and the two on the right work on text you have selected. Rewrite and Expand stay greyed out until you select a passage.

The box at the top is a direction, and it is the part most people miss. It is optional, it applies to every tool in the panel rather than just the Compose button, and it is how you aim any of them. “Colder, fewer adjectives” steers a rewrite. “From Maren’s point of view” steers a description. Leave it empty and each tool does its default thing.

Continue and Compose

These are the same button. With the direction box empty it reads Continue and picks up from where your cursor sits, carrying the passage forward in the voice, tense, and point of view of what is already there. Type a direction and the same button becomes Compose, writing to your instruction instead. It reads what surrounds the cursor, including the current scene, so either way the result matches tone and momentum.

Good for pushing through a lull without losing the thread. Treat what it returns as clay, not a finished pot.

Describe

Describe writes a passage of sensory description you can drop in at the cursor: concrete detail, in your voice, consistent with the canon. Use it when you know what the room or the face or the weather needs to do but do not want to stall the scene grinding it out.

Select something first and that becomes the subject, so highlighting a character’s name describes them specifically rather than describing the moment in general. It returns description only, with no plot attached.

Draft beat

Draft beat writes the next stretch of prose to realize the beats you have mapped to this chapter. If the chapter already has text it continues naturally from where that leaves off; if the chapter is empty it opens the scene.

It works from the beat as direction, never as text: the beat labels and your planning notes do not surface in the prose. If nothing is mapped to the chapter, this is the tool with nothing to do, and Continue is the one you want.

Draft a scene

Because PullAtlas understands scenes, you can draft or continue at the grain of a single scene from the scene rail. The AI works with that scene’s cast and context rather than the whole chapter, which keeps a drafted beat tight and on-topic.

Brainstorm

Brainstorm is the one tool here that does not write prose. It returns a list of ideas, each a short title with a sentence or two of elaboration, and it writes nothing into the page. That makes it safe to run mid-sentence: your draft is untouched whatever comes back.

By default it pitches distinct ways the current scene could continue or develop. Use the direction box to point it somewhere specific, such as “ways this betrayal could go wrong” or “reasons Maren would refuse”. Ideas are grounded in your established canon and cast, so they should read as options for this story rather than generic writing prompts.

Any idea worth keeping can be saved to the project’s Ideas inbox, where you can triage it later.

Rewrite

Select a passage and Rewrite returns the same passage reading better: the meaning is preserved, and so is consistency with the text around it and with the canon. It is for prose that says the right thing clumsily.

The direction box is worth using here. Without one you get a general tidy; with one you get the tidy you asked for.

Expand

Select a passage and Expand makes it fuller rather than merely different: it adds sensory detail, beats, and texture while keeping the meaning, voice, tense, and continuity intact. Reach for it on a passage you have written thin, where the events are right but the moment goes by too fast.

The revision pass

A revision pass reads a passage and suggests line-level edits, tightening, smoothing, fixing awkward phrasing, shown in place so you can see exactly what it proposes before accepting anything. It is an editor’s read, not an autopilot: every suggestion is yours to take or leave.