Free AI novel writer: plan your novel
Describe your novel and the AI novel writer plans it: a title, a logline, the cast, the point of view, two subplots and a chapter by chapter outline with a midpoint, a crisis and a climax.
Free, no sign-up. Nothing you type is stored. 10 outlines a day.
Example
The Weighing House
LoglineIn 1911 a weighmaster's daughter learns that her father's weights have cheated the town for twenty years, and must decide whether to expose him before the spring floods.
Point of viewClose third person, staying with Nell throughout.
SubplotsNell and Kit's friendship turning into something else; the town's fight over who pays for the sluice repairs.
- Chapter 1The beam sticksNell opens the Weighing House alone for the first time while her father lies ill.
- Chapter 2Forty sacks of barleyA farmer asks for the old half-hundredweight, and Nell notices how keen he is.
Paste it into a page in Feldar, free with 500 credits and no card, and the plan, the cast and the rest of the book sit beside it.
What the AI novel writer gives you.
A premise that holds
A title and a one-sentence logline: who wants what, what stands in the way, and what it costs.
A cast and a point of view
The main characters with their roles, and whose eyes we see through, so every chapter has a narrator.
Two subplots
Threads that mirror or complicate the main plot and pay off before the end, the part most first plans leave out.
A chapter by chapter outline
12, 20 or 30 chapters with an inciting incident, an act one turn, a midpoint, a crisis, a climax and a resolution.
How to use the AI novel writer, step by step.
- Write your idea as a person with a problem. Two or three sentences: who the novel is about, what they want, and what makes it hard. A setting and a period help a lot.
- Choose the genre. It decides what the outline leans on: clues in a mystery, an obstacle between two people in a romance, a rule of the world in fantasy.
- Choose the point of view, or let the AI choose. Pick two or three narrators if your story needs more than one side.
- Choose the length. 12 chapters suits a short novel or a novella, 20 a typical novel, 30 a long one or a book with short chapters.
- Read the plan as an editor would. Does the midpoint change what the main character believes? Do the subplots pay off? Is there a chapter where nothing changes?
- Run it again with one thing changed. A different point of view or genre often shows you the novel you actually want to write.
- Copy the plan and make it yours. Rewrite the chapter lines in your own words; that is where the novel starts to belong to you.
The structure the outline follows.
Proportions for a 20 chapter plan. Treat them as a check, not a rule.
| Part | Chapters, of 20 | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | 1 to 2 | Shows the main character's world and what they want |
| Inciting incident | 2 | The event that makes staying the same impossible |
| End of act one | 5 | The character commits, and there is no easy way back |
| Midpoint | 10 | A reveal or reversal that changes what the story is about |
| Crisis | 15 | The old way fails and a hard choice is forced |
| Climax | 18 to 19 | The choice is made and paid for |
| Resolution | 20 | The new normal, and what it cost |
A worked example: revising an AI novel outline.
An illustration written for this page, using our invented novel The Weighing House.
The writer typed: "A weighmaster's daughter in a fen market town in 1911 finds that her father's weights have cheated the town for twenty years." She chose Historical, close third person and 20 chapters.
The plan came back with a strong first act and a weak middle: chapters 8 to 12 had Nell investigating the same suspicion three times. She made three changes.
- She moved the midpoint. In the AI plan, Nell learns the truth in chapter 14. She moved it to chapter 10, so the second half becomes about what Nell does with the truth rather than whether she finds it.
- She tied a subplot to the main plot. The plan's second subplot, a quarrel over the sluice repairs, never touched the weights. She made the cheated money the money that should have paid for the sluice, so the floods in the climax are her father's fault too.
- She cut a character. The plan added a London inspector in chapter 16. She cut him: the choice has to be Nell's, not an outsider's.
None of these ideas came from the AI, but each came from arguing with its plan. That is what an AI novel outline is good for.
Common problems in a novel outline, and fixes.
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| A sagging middle: chapters where the character investigates the same thing again | Move the midpoint earlier, or make it a reversal that changes the goal |
| Subplots that never touch the main plot | Tie each one to the main character's want, so it helps or hurts it |
| A climax decided by someone else | Make the main character's own choice decide it |
| Chapters that only set up later chapters | Give each one a change of its own, even a small one |
| An ending that explains instead of resolving | End on what the character does, and what it costs |
| Too many characters for the length | Merge two minor characters who do the same job |
From the outline to the novel.
An outline is a map, not the journey. Once you have one you like:
- Test the premise. Write the logline in your own words. If you can't, the novel isn't clear to you yet.
- Get to know the cast. For each main character, write what they want, what they fear and what they hide. Our character development guide shows how.
- Plan the first chapter as scenes. Three to six scenes, each with something that changes. Our guide to outlining a novel walks through scene cards.
- Write chapter one. Fast, straight through, without fixing. Our novel writing guide covers point of view, pacing and the middle.
- Revise the plan as you go. The book will teach you things the outline didn't know. Change the plan, not the book, when they disagree.
Honest limits.
It plans, it doesn't write the novel
You get an outline of up to 30 chapters, not chapters of prose. For drafting, see Feldar below.
It can be generic
AI plans lean toward familiar turns. The specific details of your world and people are what make the book yours.
10 a day, shared
The free novel and book outlines share a daily limit of 10 per person, so they stay free for everyone.
An AI novel writer that drafts with you, in Feldar.
In Feldar, each chapter has an Outline of scenes. Type them or let Generate scenes propose some, then Draft Page writes a first pass of the page at the length you set, in blue until you accept it. Your cast and places live on the Canvas beside the page, so the AI works from your novel, not a blank prompt. Read how Feldar works as an AI book writer and as novel writing software.
Questions about the AI novel writer
Is the AI novel writer free?
Yes. You can plan up to 10 novels a day with no sign-up and no card. The novel and book outlines share that limit.
Can it write my whole novel?
No. The free tool writes the plan. In the Feldar app, Draft Page can write a first pass of each page from your scene plan, and every suggestion waits for your decision.
Do you keep my novel idea?
No. Your idea is sent to the AI model to write the plan and is not saved or logged by Feldar.
Which AI model does it use?
Kimi K2.6, an open model by Moonshot AI, running on Cloudflare Workers AI, with Google's Gemma taking over on very busy days.
How is this different from the AI book writer?
The AI book writer plans any book, including memoir and children's books. The novel writer is made for fiction: it adds a point of view and two subplots, and builds every outline around a midpoint and a crisis.
How many chapters should my novel have?
There is no rule. Twenty chapters of about 4,000 words gives an 80,000 word novel, a common length for a debut. See how many words are in a novel for lengths by genre.
Who owns the outline?
You do. Use it however you like. The more of it you rewrite in your own words, the more it becomes your book.