Built-in Plugins

Overview

Genesis Writer ships with 8 built-in plugins that transform selected text in your draft. They're the fastest way to refine, reshape, and elevate your prose without leaving the editor.

Every built-in plugin works the same way: select text, run the plugin, review the result, then Keep or Discard. They use the same inline generation toolbar as Write and Continue, so the workflow feels consistent across all AI tools.

Tone Changer

The Tone Changer shifts the emotional register of your selected text while preserving its meaning. Select a passage, choose a tone preset, and the plugin rewrites it in that voice.

There are 12+ tone presets to choose from:

• Sardonic — dry, cutting wit with an undercurrent of contempt.
• Lyrical — musical, flowing prose with poetic rhythm.
• Academic — formal, precise, analytical language.
• Gothic — dark, atmospheric, dripping with dread.
• Minimalist — stripped-down, spare, every word earns its place.
• Whimsical — playful, lighthearted, with a sense of wonder.
• Noir — hard-boiled, cynical, shadows and smoke.
• Romantic — warm, sensuous, emotionally charged.
• Suspenseful — tense, tight, building toward something.
• Humorous — comic timing, wit, and levity.
• Melancholic — wistful, bittersweet, tinged with loss.
• Urgent — fast-paced, breathless, high stakes.

This is one of the most versatile plugins in Genesis Writer. A single scene can sound completely different depending on the tone you apply — use it to experiment with mood before committing to a direction.

Rewrite

Rewrite takes your selected text and generates a completely fresh version that conveys the same ideas in different words. It's not a grammar fix or a polish — it's a genuine reimagining of the passage.

Use Rewrite when a passage feels stale, when you've been staring at the same paragraph for too long, or when you want to see how the AI would approach the same scene. You can run it multiple times and Discard until you find a version you like.

Describe

Describe enriches your selected text with sensory details. It adds what you can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel — turning a sparse passage into an immersive experience.

This plugin is especially powerful for scenes that read too “tell” and not enough “show.” Select a line like “The room was old” and Describe will transform it into something you can feel: creaking floorboards, dust motes in amber light, the smell of wood that's been drying for decades.

Polish

Polish is your prose cleanup tool. It fixes grammar issues, tightens sentence structure, removes redundancy, and improves clarity — all while keeping your voice intact.

Think of it as a light editorial pass. Polish won't change the meaning or style of your writing. It just makes it cleaner. Wordy sentences get trimmed. Awkward phrasing gets smoothed out. Typos disappear.

Scene Ender

Scene Ender crafts a powerful final beat for your scene. Select the last paragraph or two, and the plugin generates an ending that lands with impact.

The plugin produces different types of endings depending on the scene's context:

• Climactic — a dramatic peak moment that resolves tension.
• Quiet — a reflective, understated close with emotional resonance.
• Cliffhanger — a hook that makes the reader need to keep going.

Ending scenes well is one of the hardest parts of writing fiction. Scene Ender gives you a strong starting point that you can edit and refine.

Expand

Expand takes a short passage and lengthens it with elaboration and detail. It adds depth without changing the core content — fleshing out descriptions, extending dialogue beats, and layering in subtext.

This is the inverse of tightening prose. Use it when a scene feels rushed, when a moment deserves more space to breathe, or when you've written a skeleton that needs muscle and skin.

Suggest

Suggest doesn't change your text — instead, it generates improvement suggestions for the selected passage. It reads what you've written and offers ideas for how to make it stronger.

Suggestions might include tightening a metaphor, adding a character reaction, adjusting pacing, or rethinking a piece of dialogue. Think of it as having a writing coach look at a specific passage and give you notes.

How Built-in Plugins Work

All 8 built-in plugins follow the same workflow:

1. Select text in your draft editor.
2. Open the plugin from the selection toolbar or the plugin menu.
3. Configure if needed (e.g., pick a tone for Tone Changer).
4. Wait for the result — the plugin processes your text through the AI.
5. Keep or Discard the transformed text using the inline generation toolbar.

Token cost depends on the length of your selected text and the AI model you're using. Discarded results are fully refunded, so feel free to experiment. For more details on running plugins, see Using Plugins.

Availability

Every built-in plugin is available to all users on every plan, including the Starter plan. They use your Genesis Tokens for each execution, but there's no subscription gate.

If you want even more specialized tools, you can browse community-created plugins on the Plugin Marketplace, or create your own with a Writer+ plan.