Writing and Continuing with Chat

Overview

There are two ways to ask Chat for prose in a draft:

• Write a new scene — describe what should happen and Chat drafts it. Great for starting a scene, jumping to a specific moment, or giving the AI detailed direction.
• Continue — ask Chat to pick up from where your draft ends, matching the pacing and voice of what you've already written.

Both work against a Draft node — the chapter or scene you're currently writing.

How to Ask for Prose

Open Chat in the right panel and tell it what you want — for example, “write the next scene where Marcus finds the letter in the attic” or “continue this chapter.” The AI builds full context from your project (see below), writes the prose, and returns it as a card in the chat. Choose Insert into draft on the card to add it: it appends to a draft that already has text, or fills an empty one.

Most Chat turns are conversation — discussing your story, critiquing a passage, brainstorming what happens next. Chat may end a reply with a plain offer, such as “Want me to draft that opening?” Say yes and that turn does the work: the drafted prose arrives in the chat, ready to insert.

If you'd rather the assistant apply its work as it goes, choose Full access in the assistant's menu. See The Writing Assistant for how Chat and Full access differ. While prose is being written into a draft, the editor is read-only and a pill at the bottom centre of the editor shows a Stop button.

How Context Works

When Chat writes prose, it sends much more than your request to the AI. Genesis Writer builds a rich context package that includes:

• Your existing text — the draft leading up to the generation point, so the AI matches your voice and continues coherently.
• Project context — relevant nodes from your project hierarchy and linked context.
• Character data — personality, backstory, and voice for any characters relevant to the scene. See Context Building & Story Bible.
• Writing style — your active writing style shapes vocabulary, sentence rhythm, and tone.

This is why Genesis Writer produces better results than pasting your text into a generic chatbot — the context builder gives the AI deep understanding of your story.

After You Insert

Inserting generated prose adds it to the end of your chapter (or fills an empty draft) and saves it automatically. You can review and compare every change — AI or manual — in the Activity tab, which shows a word-level diff of exactly what changed.

Token Usage

Writing and continuing with Chat use Genesis Tokens. The cost depends on the model you've selected and how much text is generated — higher-end models (like Claude Opus 5) produce more nuanced prose but use more tokens per generation. Tokens are finalized against the generation's actual usage.

Tips for Better Results

• Give the AI a running start. Write the first sentence or two yourself, then ask it to continue. It matches your voice better with something to build on.
• Describe a scene to start, ask to continue to keep going. A described scene is best from scratch; once you have momentum, asking Chat to continue keeps the flow.
• Link characters to your draft. The AI writes better dialogue and character moments with access to profiles. See Creating Characters.
• Choose the right model. Fast models are great for first drafts; premium models shine for nuanced prose. See Choosing a Model.
• Set a writing style. With a style, you get consistent tone, vocabulary, and pacing. See What Are Writing Styles?