# Free AI Story Writer and Story Generator, No Sign-Up > Free AI story writer and AI story generator: describe an idea, pick a genre, tone and length, and get a complete short story in under a minute. Nothing stored. - URL: https://feldar.com/ai-story-writer - Site: [Home](https://feldar.com/) · [About](https://feldar.com/about) · [Blog](https://feldar.com/blog) · [Careers](https://feldar.com/careers) · [Pricing](https://feldar.com/pricing) · [Download](https://feldar.com/download) · [Changelog](https://feldar.com/changelog) - Machine index: [llms.txt](https://feldar.com/llms.txt) · [full site content](https://feldar.com/llms-full.txt) --- #### How the AI story writer works. ##### 1. You give it an idea A sentence or two about who the story is about and what happens. The more specific, the better the story. ##### 2. It plans and writes It gives the main character a name and a want, builds to a turn, and finishes with an ending that resolves or lingers on purpose. ##### 3. You make it yours Read it, keep what surprises you, and rewrite the rest. Try again for a different take on the same idea. #### How to write a story with AI, step by step. - Write the idea as a person and a problem. "A lighthouse keeper receives a letter from her sister, who drowned ten years ago" works because it has someone, something that shouldn't happen, and a question. - Pick a genre and a tone. Genre sets the furniture (a mystery wants a clue, a romance an obstacle between two people). Tone sets the weather: eerie, cozy, bittersweet. Leave them on Any to let the writer choose. - Choose the point of view. Third person gives you a little distance and is easiest to edit. First person gives you a voice. - Start short. About 500 words is a scene with a turn. Ask for 1,000 when you want room for a middle. - Read it twice. Once as a reader, for what grabbed you. Once as a writer, for what you would change. - Try again, or change one thing. The same idea with a different tone often shows you what the story is really about. - Make it yours. Copy it into your own document and rewrite it in your words. The ending is usually the first thing to rework. #### A worked example: from an idea to a story you can keep. An illustration of how a writer might use the tool, written for this page. Sam has an image and nothing else: a ferry bell that someone rings every night for nobody. He types "A woman rings a ferry bell every night for a brother who never came back", chooses Literary and Bittersweet, and asks for about 500 words. The first story gives the woman a name, Maren, and builds to a stranger who tells her she has been ringing the bell wrong all these years. The premise turns supernatural. Sam doesn't want a ghost story, but one line catches him: the rope worn smooth by her hands. He tries again with the tone set to Hopeful. This time a child is waiting on the slipway, and the story ends with the woman ringing the bell for someone else. That is the turn Sam was missing: the ritual stops being about grief when it serves another person. He keeps neither story. He writes his own, about 300 words, with the worn rope from the first draft and the child from the second, and an ending that is his alone. You can read a version of that story, taken apart beat by beat, in our [story writing guide](https://feldar.com/guides/story-writing). #### Story ideas to try. Copy one into the box above, or use it as a starting point for your own. - Mystery. A lighthouse keeper receives a letter from her sister, who drowned ten years ago. - Fairy tale. A boy trades his shadow to a travelling merchant for one perfect day. - Romance. Two rival bakers are snowed in together on the night of the village contest. - Science fiction. The last human on a generation ship has to convince the ship's AI she is not a stowaway. - Horror. A night-shift radio host realises a caller is describing her own kitchen. - Literary. A retired piano teacher finds that the new tenant in her old flat is playing her pupils' pieces, note for note. - Mystery. A village postmistress must prove the drowned vicar was murdered, though the only witness is her own sister. - Fantasy. An apprentice bell-founder casts the bell that will wake her city's sleeping god. - Romance. A wedding florist wins the biggest contract of the summer, and the best man is the rival who ruined her first shop. - Young adult. A boy who runs his school's anonymous advice account gets a message only someone in his family could have sent. - Historical. In 1666 a London baker's daughter has one night to choose between her family and the apprentice her father dismissed. #### What each genre asks of a short story. Use these when you choose a genre, or when you rewrite the story yourself. GenreThe story needsWatch out for MysteryA question, a clue the reader can see, and an answer that was possible all alongA solution that comes from nowhere FantasyOne rule of magic or the world that costs somethingExplaining the whole world Science fictionOne change to how people live, followed to its human costTechnology without people RomanceTwo people, a reason they can't simply be together, and a turn toward each otherAn obstacle that one conversation would fix HorrorA safe place that stops being safe, and a reason the character staysShowing the monster too early LiteraryA small, specific change in how someone sees their lifeNothing happening on the page Fairy taleA clear rule, a test, and a reward or punishment that fitsModern irony that breaks the spell #### How to get a better story. ##### Name the want "A diver who wants to find her father's boat" gives the story a spine. "A story about the sea" does not. ##### Add one strange detail A letter in a freezer, a clock that runs backwards. Specific details give the AI something to build on. ##### Choose the tone on purpose The same idea reads very differently as eerie, funny or bittersweet. Try two and compare. ##### Keep it short first About 500 words is a scene with a turn. Ask for 1,000 when you want more room for a middle. ##### Rewrite the ending AI endings are often the weakest part. Treat yours as a draft and finish the story yourself. ##### Use it to unstick, not to replace It is best as a sketch to argue with: what it gets wrong often shows you what your story is. #### Honest limits. ##### Short stories only It writes one story of up to about 1,000 words. For a book, plan it with the [AI book writer](https://feldar.com/ai-book-writer). ##### A general audience No explicit or hateful content and nothing about real private people. A safety check screens each idea. ##### Not for contests Many magazines and contests do not accept AI-written stories. Use it to practise and plan, then write your own. #### AI story writer or story generator? Feldar has both, and they do different jobs. ##### Use the AI story writer When you want a whole story to read, written in prose by an AI model from your idea. ##### Use the story generator When you want a story start to write yourself: a protagonist, three turns and an ending, made from hand-written parts with no AI. [Story generator](https://feldar.com/tools/story-generator) #### When a story wants to be a book. In Feldar you plan each chapter as scenes, keep your characters and places on a Canvas beside the page, and write with AI help that waits for your OK. See Feldar as [novel writing software](https://feldar.com/novel-writing-software), or plan the whole book with the [AI book writer](https://feldar.com/ai-book-writer). [Start writing free](https://feldar.com/login) [Read the story writing guide](https://feldar.com/guides/story-writing) #### Questions about the AI story writer Is the AI story writer free? Yes. You can write 10 stories a day with no sign-up and no card. Do you keep my ideas or stories? No. Your idea is sent to the AI model to write the story and is not saved or logged by Feldar. The story exists only on your screen until you copy it. Which AI writes the stories? Kimi K2.6, an open model by Moonshot AI, running on Cloudflare Workers AI, with Google's Gemma taking over on very busy days. Can I publish a story it writes? You can use it, but most magazines and contests have rules about AI-written work, and many do not accept it. Use it as a draft and make the final story your own. Can it write for children? Yes. Choose Bedtime story or Fairy tale. Every story is kept suitable for a general audience, and a safety check screens each idea. Why did it change my idea? If an idea asks for explicit or harmful content, the writer turns it into a suitable story on a nearby theme, or declines. Is this the same as an AI story generator? Yes, it generates a complete story from your idea. If you want ingredients to write the story yourself instead, the free [story generator](https://feldar.com/tools/story-generator) gives you a protagonist, three turns and an ending with no AI. How long can the story be? About 500 or about 1,000 words. For anything longer, plan it as a book. #### Keep reading [Free AI tool AI writer Continue your text, rewrite a passage or write a scene.](https://feldar.com/ai-writer) [Guide Story writing, step by step What a story needs, with a worked example and a template.](https://feldar.com/guides/story-writing) [Free tool Story generator Story starts by genre, made from hand-written parts, no AI.](https://feldar.com/tools/story-generator)