Frequently Asked Questions

Story Reports provide detailed AI-powered analysis of your writing, helping you understand your story's strengths and areas for improvement.

• Writing Quality Metrics: Scores for readability, grammar, vocabulary, style, voice, clarity, and consistency
• Story Elements Analysis: Evaluation of plot coherence, character development, emotional impact, originality, setting, theme, pacing, and dialogue
• Genre & Audience: Identification of genre and target audience
• Completion Status: Assessment of story completion with percentage and stage

• Reports are generated automatically when you view the report page
• Results are cached to avoid unnecessary regeneration
• Use insights to focus your revision efforts
• Track improvement over time as you edit

• Get estimates for writing, editing, and rewriting time
• Plan your writing schedule based on AI recommendations
• Track total estimated time to completion

The AI Assistant is your writing companion, offering various tools to help you improve your writing and overcome creative blocks.

• Chat With: Open Story options on any story and choose "Chat With" to have a conversation about your story — explore ideas, get feedback, and overcome writer's block
• Story Reports: Get detailed AI analysis of readability, plot, characters, style, and more
• Diminish & Rewrite: AI-assisted tools to tighten and improve your prose
• Skill Practice: Target specific skills and get AI-suggested passages to work on

• Use AI as a brainstorming partner
• Get unstuck with targeted questions
• Maintain your unique voice while incorporating feedback
• Use AI analysis to identify areas for improvement

Writing Streaks help you build and maintain a consistent writing habit. They're designed to be both motivating and flexible.

• Overall Streaks: Track your writing across all stories
• Story Streaks: Track writing for a specific story
• Garden Streaks: Track writing within a collection of related stories

• Any writing activity in a day maintains the streak - even a single word counts!
• Streaks are tracked separately for overall writing, individual stories, and gardens
• Missing a day resets the streak counter
• Your longest streak is always remembered as your record

• Set optional daily word goals (e.g., 500 words per day)
• Goals are tracked separately from streak maintenance
• You can have different goals for overall, story, and garden streaks

Story Gardens are a unique way to organize and nurture your writing projects. Think of them as creative spaces where related stories can grow together.

• Group related stories together (e.g., by theme, world, or characters)
• Track collective progress across all stories in a garden
• Set garden-wide writing goals and streaks
• Visualize growth over time with activity tracking

• Create separate gardens for different projects or genres
• Use gardens to organize story drafts and revisions
• Track garden-specific writing streaks
• Use Skill Practice to find passages across a garden that need work

Timed Writing sessions help you focus on your writing and track your productivity with structured time blocks.

• Customizable Timers: Set session lengths that work for you
• Word Count Tracking: Monitor your writing speed and output
• Progress Stats: View your writing velocity and patterns
• Focus Mode: Minimize distractions during writing sessions

• Start with shorter sessions and build up
• Use timed writing to overcome procrastination
• Track your most productive times of day
• Set realistic goals based on your writing speed

Work Points are your measure of writing achievement and progress. They're earned through various writing activities and help track your growth as a writer.

• Writing new content — earn points for words you add to stories
• Daily Focus bonus — writing on your planned project earns 2x points
• Add Words and Timed Entry sessions both contribute points

• Track your writing progress on your profile
• Compete on the leaderboard (work points, total words, gardens, and more)

Daily Focus helps you plan your writing day. Set your primary project or garden, word count goals, and focus areas so you know exactly what to work on.

• Choose a primary story or garden to focus on
• Set a word count goal for the day
• Select focus areas (writing, editing, planning, character development, etc.)
• Quick access to Timed Entry, Speed Read, Rewrite, and other writing modes
• Writing on your focused project earns 2x work points

Skill Practice helps you improve specific writing skills. Pick a skill (like description, pacing, dialogue, or voice), and the AI will suggest passages from your stories that could use work in that area.

• Choose from skills like description, pacing, dialogue, interiority, voice, clarity, tension, and more
• Scope to all your stories or a specific garden
• Get AI-suggested passages ranked by where you need the most practice
• Each skill includes a short lesson and hints for improvement

Diminish helps you tighten your prose. Work through paragraphs one at a time — condense and sharpen your writing, then compare your version to the original with AI feedback on clarity, conciseness, and impact.

Speed Read lets you practice speed reading with your own story content. Words flash one at a time at an adjustable pace — great for reviewing drafts quickly or training your reading speed.

Rewrite mode helps you improve sections of your story. Select a passage and get AI-assisted rewrites and suggestions to strengthen your prose.

Logged-in users can invite friends and fellow writers to create a WriteCarrot account. Go to Invite in the menu, enter their email, and they'll receive an email with a link to sign up.