Writing good turns, and fixing the ones that go wrong.
You have more control over a story than the text box suggests. What you write decides where the scene goes, the suggested replies and the pass button give you two more ways to move it, and you can still fix or undo turns afterwards.
The story reads what you write as something your character does or says, so it works best when you write it that way.
I set the lantern down and wait for her to speak first.
"Talk to her" would work as well, but the sentence above gives the narrator something to answer: a lantern on the floor, a silence, a character who is being waited for. Length is up to you: one line is fine, and so is a paragraph when the moment calls for it, up to 1,024 characters. Bold and italic work here too; see more on the page Markdown.
Under the latest AI message the app offers three next moves, written in your character's voice. Each one takes the story in a different direction, for example one careful, one bold and one curious. The button shows a short label, and tapping it puts the full reply into the box, where you can send it as it is or change it first. You can also ignore them and write your own. The suggestions are hidden while the keyboard is open.
Write a message...
Ask about my father
You are chatting with AI characters, not real people. Treat their responses as fiction, not fact or advice.
If you leave the box empty, the send button becomes a fast-forward button, and pressing it hands the turn to the AI without a message from you. The AI is then told to make something happen (move the story on, bring in a character, or resolve what you started) instead of describing the same scene again. Use it when you want to see what the world does next, or when a scene is finished and you want the next one.
Write a message...
You are chatting with AI characters, not real people. Treat their responses as fiction, not fact or advice.
Hold any message, yours or the AI's, to open its menu. What the menu offers depends on where the message is: Copy Text is always there, Edit and Regenerate work on the latest turn, and Rewind works on earlier messages.
Regenerate is on the AI's latest reply, and asks for a different reply to the same turn. Your message stays as it is, the AI's answer is written again, and the new one takes the old one's place. Use it when the reply was fine in substance but not in the way it went: the wrong tone, the wrong character speaking, a detail that does not fit. Later, regenerating will keep the earlier versions too, so you can switch back to one you liked Coming soon.
Rewind rolls the story back to the message you chose, and everything after it is removed. If you rewind to one of your own messages, that message is removed too and its text goes back into the box, so you can change it and send it again. Use it when a scene went somewhere you did not want: go back to the last turn you liked, and write a different one from there.
Rewinding removes everything after that point
Edit works on your latest message and on the AI's latest reply. The app says Editing your message or Editing model reply while you do it. Editing the AI's reply changes its text, and the story goes on from the new version, which is the way to fix one wrong fact. Editing your own message sends the new text and the AI writes a new reply to it. To change something further back, rewind to it.
Delete appears on the AI's latest reply when the message before it is also from the AI, for example after you passed the turn. It removes that reply and the story goes back to the message before it. Use it for a turn that should never have happened at all. If one of your messages failed to send, you can also delete it, or tap Retry to send it again.
The world's rules hold whatever you write, so if you try something the world does not allow, the story pushes back. If it bends when it should not have, that is a sentence missing from the world's definition; see more on the page Building a world.
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Last updated on September 27, 2026