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AI Assist: Drafting With Your Own Key

Outline a book from a one-line idea, draft new material, or rewrite a passage in a different voice — powered by your own AI provider account.

AI Assist gives you a writing partner inside the editor for the moments you want one: outlining a new book, getting past a blank page, or reworking a passage that isn't landing. It runs on your own AI provider account — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or OpenRouter — so the choice of model and the cost of generations are entirely yours to control.

Generating an outline

Starting a brand-new book? Describe your premise in a sentence or two, optionally add a genre and tone, and generate a full chapter-by-chapter outline. Review it, then apply it to instantly create your book's chapter structure — every chapter titled and ready for you to write into.

Continuing your writing

From inside a chapter, ask AI Assist to continue naturally from wherever you've stopped — useful for pushing through a stuck moment without losing your own voice, since you can accept, edit, or discard whatever it produces before it becomes part of your manuscript.

Writing a new chapter

Give it a short brief for what the chapter should cover and let it produce a full first draft to revise from — a starting point, not a finished chapter.

Rewriting a passage

Select any text and ask for a rewrite — tighter, a different tone, simplified, or your own custom instruction. The original stays untouched until you decide to accept the new version.

Setting up your key

Add your API key from your account settings — it's used only for your own generations and never shared. A small number of free generations are available up front so you can try AI Assist before deciding whether to connect a key.

How to use it, step by step

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Add your API key in account settings, or use one of your free trial generations first.
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Starting a new book? Generate an outline from a short premise and apply it to build your chapter structure.
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Stuck mid-chapter? Use Continue to draft the next few paragraphs, then revise them in your own voice.
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Not happy with a passage? Select it and ask for a rewrite with whatever direction you have in mind.

Related

Feature GuideUsing the Write Mode Editor

Where you'll shape whatever AI Assist drafts into your own.

Feature GuidePlanning Your Book

Set a word-count goal and outline your beats before you draft.

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