Story ideas and premises
Stuck on what to write? This AI story generator helps you find an idea, shape it into a premise and grow it into a book, from a novelette to a long novel, without ever taking the story out of your hands.
No sign-up. 1,000 free credits every month.
Brainstorm ideas on Home opens a chat made for sparking premises. When a reply is worth keeping, Use as novel idea drops it into the composer.
Try an example unfolds a few sample premises with a Shuffle button. Pick one and it fills the box but never submits, so you decide when to go.
Quick start styles such as Cozy mystery, Epic fantasy or Memoir fill genre and tone in one tap. Anything you leave open, the AI picks.
One request returns title ideas, the big question, a story shape, a cast, a voice and a length, laid out as a short spec sheet you can read in a minute.
Edit any line to pin it. Try another take lists what it is keeping, accepts a direction for the rest, and shows its price before you tap.
A good idea is rarely a plot. It is a person, a pressure and a question. The proposal turns your sentence into the big question the whole book asks, a story shape and a cast, so the idea has a spine before a word of the draft exists.
Start as vague or as specific as you like. Type 'a retired cartographer discovers her old maps have been altered' or just 'cosy mystery, small town, bakery'. If you know more, say so in Book options; whatever you leave open is chosen for you and marked as the AI's pick.
Every proposal comes with a main title and three alternatives, shown as chips under the title. Tap one to swap it in. The title stays yours to retype at any time, including long after the book exists.
The story shape is the plot generator part of the proposal. It can pick from named shapes such as Three-Act Structure, Save the Cat or the Hero's Journey, or you can choose one yourself so the plot follows a pattern you trust.
Length is a real setting, not an afterthought. A novelette runs to about 12,000 words in a handful of chapters, a novella to about 30,000 across seven to twelve, a full novel to about 90,000 and a doorstopper to about 180,000. The AI keeps the chapter count inside the tier you pick and sets word targets to match.
Creating the book from a proposal makes no AI call, so it is free; only the proposal itself and later AI actions carry a price, shown first. You can start without signing up, and a Free account can begin 3 books in a calendar month.
In NovelGPT
One sentence becomes a genre, voice, length and a full Story setup you can change.
Plot your turning points and side stories, then see where each one lands.
What they're after, what they wrongly believe and what they really need, plus a relationship web.
Yes. Every month brings 1,000 free credits, and you do not need an account to begin. Each proposal shows its price before you tap, so you always know what a take will use.
Only the fields you have not pinned. A line you edit is pinned and marked with a pin icon, and the take lists those lines as Keeping; tap the cross beside one to let the AI change it again. Each take is a fresh request with its own price.
Yes. Memoir, self-help and narrative nonfiction are among the 28 genres, and the proposal's length, structure and voice follow the kind of book you choose.
No. You can type your own premise, start blank with just a title, or import pages you have already written. The generator proposes; the story is whatever you approve.
Type your idea. NovelGPT will set up the book, and you write it your way.
Start your book