Good news! You no longer need to add “1st person, present tense” wherever you can in order to get the AI to listen. Sudowrite’s new POV & Tense settings make sure the AI remembers.

📓 Why you’ll love it

• Narrative voice consistency: Set your POV and tense once and every Draft, Write, and Expand generation sticks to it—no more surprise head-hops or tense flips.

• Chapter-by-chapter freedom: Toggle from Same for all chapters (for a single, consistent POV and tense) to Customize per chapter to effortlessly juggle multiple POVs or timelines.

• Smart AI detection: The first time you create (or write) a Synopsis, Sudowrite analyzes it and uses genre conventions to recommend the POV and tense readers expect.

• Character-aware menus: Every named character appears in the POV dropdown. Pick one (or several) and Sudowrite automatically narrates from the right perspective in each scene.

• Always in sync: Change POV or tense in the Draft box or the Outline—both update instantly, so you’re never out of sync.

🛠️ How it works

1. Find the new drop-downs in your Story Bible’s Outline (and in the Draft tool).

2. Choose your POV, tense, and scope (Same for all or Customized per chapter).

3. Write as usual. Sudowrite handles the consistency—freeing you to focus on plot twists rather than verb tenses.

Already mid-stream on an existing project? No action is required on your part to ensure you keep getting the same results! Existing projects have these new selectors in a default (“choose one”) state which preserves your workflow, and will look to your Style box and elsewhere for POV/Tense guidance.

New projects will default to third-person limited, past tense—but if you write or generate a Synopsis, Sudowrite will make a best guess at filling the POV and Tense in for you. You can, of course, override either at any time.

Questions? Join us in Discord or drop us a note at hi@sudowrite.com.