Writing with AI
Find the characters in your story
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When you write by talking, you rarely stop to log every character you invent. MakeVox does that part for you. It reads your prose, finds the named people who keep showing up, and adds them to your Characters list so your cast is already there when you go looking.
Your cast just appears
The first time you open Characters on a story that has prose but no characters yet, MakeVox scans the story and fills the list. Each character it finds comes with a short profile it wrote from what you have already written, so you are not starting from a blank page.
Scan again as you write
New people arrive as the story grows. Hit Scan story to run the pass again and catch anyone who has walked on since. It matches by name, so it will not add the same character twice, and it never touches a profile you have already edited. Your changes stay yours.
Tip. This is for prose, like novels and memoir. Screenplays build their cast from the dialogue cues in the script instead, so there is nothing to scan there.
Props come from your story too
Props works the same way for a novel as for a script. In World, open Props and press Pull props from your story. MakeVox reads your manuscript chapter by chapter and lists the objects your story uses, like a letter, a locket or the boat, with where each one is and who carries it. It costs one AI action, shown before you press, and nothing is charged if there is nothing written yet. It fills in blanks and never overwrites a description you wrote.
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Build your character bible
Your character bible is the AI's memory of who your people are. Write it or dictate it, and together with your prose it unlocks the Direct setting.
Getting startedGetting started: your first chapter
Open MakeVox and type, or hit record and talk. Your AI editor shapes the rough draft into clean pages, and your outline grows as you go.
Story typesWrite a novel by voice
Talk your novel into being, speak scenes as they come to you, let MakeVox shape them into prose, and keep the whole book in your own voice.