Change your story's details

Change your story's title, plot, cover and how it's written, and see what that changes for Ando's suggestions and your chapters.

Your story's details, from its title and plot to the point of view it's told from, live in its General tab. Change them whenever your story changes. The chapters you've already written stay exactly as you wrote them.

Change the details

Open your story. It opens on the General tab.
Change anything in Your story or How it's written.
Select Save changes at the bottom of the page. It appears as soon as you change something.

If you try to leave before saving, Storiando asks Leave without saving?. Stay here keeps your changes on the page. If a save doesn't go through, your changes stay in the form: check your connection and select Save changes again.

What each detail is for

Your story

Title: your story's name everywhere in Storiando.
Author's name: the name on your cover and title page.
Plot: what your story is about, in a few sentences. Everything Ando suggests for your story starts from it.
Logline: your whole story in one sentence: who it follows, what they want and what stands in the way. Only you and Ando see it.
The cover: select the cover to upload a JPG, PNG or WebP image, or Remove to take it away.

How it's written

Ando follows these whenever it suggests or writes for your story.

Genre: the kind of story it is. Pick one or more.
Target audience: the reader Ando writes for. Until you choose one, it writes for no particular age.
Point of view: whose eyes the reader sees the story through.
Narrative tense: whether the story is told as it happens or as it happened.
Writer's notes: facts, rules and reminders for this story, such as "Maya never lies, even when it would be kinder". Only you and Ando see them.
More writing options: the story's Language, its Planned length in words, its Themes and its Tone.

Let Ando help with the details

Each of these uses AI credits, and none of them saves anything: whatever Ando offers is yours to keep or throw away, and it's only saved when you select Save changes.

Suggest a title or genres

Beside Title and Genre, Suggest asks Ando for a title or genres based on your plot, at the Swift price. The suggestion appears in the field. Select Keep to use it, or Undo to put back what you had.

The Title field with a suggested title, and Keep and Undo highlighted

Improve your plot or logline

Below Plot and Logline, Improve asks Ando to rework what you've written. Ando's version appears in Improve your text, where you can edit it. Select Replace my text to use it, or Discard to keep yours.

Improve your text with Ando's version of a plot, and Replace my text highlighted beside Discard

Generate a cover

On the Pro plan, Generate below the cover asks Ando to create one from your plot. While it works you see Creating your cover…, which can take a minute or two. The new cover appears in place of the old one: select Save changes to keep it. If you leave without saving, your story keeps the cover it had.

A generated cover in place, with You have unsaved changes and Save changes highlighted

On the Free and Creator plans, Generate shows a lock and opens Plans.

What changes when you save

Ando follows the new details from then on, whenever it drafts a chapter, suggests characters, locations or chapters, or answers you about your story.
Your chapters don't change. Text you've already written stays exactly as it is. If you switch the point of view or the tense, earlier chapters keep the old one until you revise them.
Your characters, locations and outline don't change either.
Exports use the details as they are when you export. After changing the title or author's name, export your story again to get files with the new ones.

Ask Ando to change them

You can also ask Ando. In your story, select Ando and say what you'd like, such as "Change the point of view to first person and the narrative tense to past". Each reply from Ando uses AI credits, and Ando says how many under its reply.

Ando answers with a card showing each detail it would change, Now and After this change. Nothing in your story changes until you select Apply changes. Reject throws the proposal away, and Ask for changes lets you tell Ando what to adjust. Once applied, Undo puts back what was there, as long as you haven't changed those details since.

Ando's proposed change setting Point of view to First person and Narrative tense to Past tense, with Apply changes highlighted beside Reject

Ando can change every detail except the cover and the author's name. If you have unsaved changes on the General tab, save them first: Ando's change waits until you do, so that saving can't write over it.

For decisions that have no field of their own, like a secret to keep until the last act, use What Ando remembers about this story, below the details.

If you can't change the details

If your plan changed and your story shows This story is deactivated, its details are read-only until it's active again. The notice offers Reactivate story when your plan has room for it, or See plans when it doesn't.