Turn a brainstorm into a story

When your brainstorm's blueprint is complete, create a story from it, with its characters, locations and chapter outline ready for you to write.

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Written By Storiando SupportLast updated 5 hours ago

When the blueprint in your brainstorm has everything a story needs, you can turn it into a story. Storiando creates the story with the details, characters, locations and chapter outline you and Ando decided on, ready for you to write. The brainstorm stays, with its whole conversation.

Before you start

  • The blueprint is complete. In Your blueprint, on the right of the brainstorm, each part gets a check mark once it's done: Premise and plot, Characters, Locations and Chapter outline. Until then, the panel lists what is still missing under Before the story can be created. Keep talking with Ando, or select Ask Ando what is left. That uses AI credits.
  • Your plan has room for another story. If it doesn't, the blueprint says so from the start. See "If you can't create the story" below.

Create the story

  1. Open your brainstorm from Brainstorms in the sidebar.
  2. In Your blueprint, select Create story. On a phone, select Blueprint at the top of the brainstorm, then Create story at the bottom. You can also ask Ando to create it in the conversation. Either way, Ando gives the blueprint a last check first. That's one reply from Ando, so it uses AI credits. Your blueprint with every part checked and Create story highlighted
  3. When the check is done, the conversation says Your blueprint is ready to become a story. Select View blueprint. Your blueprint is ready to become a story, with View blueprint highlighted
  4. Read the blueprint in full: Ando's summary at the top, then your story's details, characters, locations and chapter outline.
  5. Select Create story at the bottom of the blueprint. If you'd rather change something first, select Keep editing and tell Ando what to change. Neither button uses credits. Review your story blueprint, with Keep editing and Create story at the bottom

If Ando finds something still missing during the last check, it says so in the conversation: sort it out together, then select Create story again.

Once you select Create story in the blueprint, Storiando creates your story and opens it. Creating the story itself uses no credits.

What goes into your story

Everything in the blueprint becomes part of your story, where you can change it like anything else:

  • General: the title, the author's name, the logline, the plot, and the genre, target audience, point of view, narrative tense, language, planned length, themes and tone you settled on.
  • Characters: each character with their description, goal, motivation, arc and traits, and how they relate to each other.
  • Locations: each place with its description, atmosphere and why it matters to the story.
  • Outline: your acts and chapters. Each chapter has its title, summary, purpose and key beats, and the characters and locations in it.

What you asked Ando to remember about the story in the brainstorm goes with it, too.

The chapters themselves are empty: Ando outlines your story in a brainstorm, but doesn't write the chapters. Open your story and select Start your first chapter when you're ready to write.

What stays in the brainstorm

The brainstorm stays under Brainstorms. In All brainstorms, its card says Became a story and offers Open story.

Open the brainstorm to reread the whole conversation, or select View blueprint to see the blueprint your story was created from. You can't carry on the conversation there any more: to keep developing your story, select Ando inside the story instead. Changes you make to the story don't change the blueprint, and the blueprint doesn't change your story.

A brainstorm that became a story no longer counts toward the brainstorms your plan keeps in progress, so you can start a new one.

  • Deleting the brainstorm removes the conversation only. Your story stays.
  • Deleting the story gives you the brainstorm back, so you can carry on with it. If your plan already has as many brainstorms in progress as it keeps, the brainstorm comes back archived: open it and select Restore brainstorm when there's room.

If you can't create the story

Your plan has no room for another story

The Free and Creator plans hold a limited number of stories, and the Free plan holds one. When yours is full, Your blueprint says so and offers See plans instead of Create story. To make room, delete a story you no longer need, or see the plans.

Your blueprint, saying the Free plan holds one story and offering See plans

If your plan fills up while you're reviewing the blueprint, Storiando says Your plan has no room for another story. Nothing was created, and your blueprint is still there.

Storiando couldn't create your story

If you see Couldn't create your story, your blueprint is safe. Select Try again: the story won't be created twice.

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