May 8th, 2025

Improvement

Fix

Improvements & Fixes

New Models in Draft - We've made two super capable AI models available in the Draft tool: Google's Gemini Pro 2.5 and OpenAI's o3. Both models have outstanding reasoning, and early testing suggests they work really well with our recently-added Chapter Continuity feature. Find them in the Experimental section of the Draft tool's Prose Mode selector.

Improved First Draft - We replaced the AI model powering First Draft—that’s the feature that appears in the Plugins dropdown menu in a totally blank document. It’s now faster, more current (helpful for non-fiction!), and can write longer than before.

Write Length Fix - When using Gemini Pro 2.5 with Write, it would sometimes ignore the card length suggestion. We made it so that it's now much more likely to be in the right ballpark.

Page Jumping Bug - There was a disruptive issue where the Sudowrite page would spontaneously jump, causing you to lose your spot in your document. We fixed that!

Character Generation Fix - The Generate button in the Characters section of Story Bible was occasionally creating a random character while ignoring your instructions, especially if you’d provided super detailed guidance. It will now better listen to your guidance and create the character you wanted.

Additional Scene Generation - If you used the Draft tool to generate prose from your Scenes, and then later decided to add an additional scene, prose from that additional scene would fail to generate as expected. We resolved that issue.

Quick Edit Coherency & Formatting - We received several reports of lost line breaks and occasional gibberish from Quick Edit, so we made some improvements to its reliability.

Trash Accessibility - We made the document trash button more visible and clickable for authors using screen readers. (We have additional improvements planned on this front.)

Draft Text Repetition - Certain models, namely Mistral and Deepseek-r1, were repeating Scene contents and occasionally even generating extra scenes. We improved their performance in the Draft tool.

Spontaneous Refresh Fix - We discovered and rolled out a fix for an issue with blank Scenes that could cause the parent document to crash.

Document Export Fix - Documents with comments weren't consistently exporting properly, but we fixed that and now they do.

Disappearing Plugins Menu - The Plugins dropdown menu was collapsing abruptly in some circumstances. We identified and fixed the issue.

Page Refresh Bug - Using the "Fill this in" button in an empty Character or Worldbuilding trait was causing the Sudowrite page to refresh. We've resolved that issue.

Copy Fixes - We updated the language in the Tutorial Projects created on new accounts, and fixed an inaccurate bit of helper text in the Story Bible’s Braindump field.