Don't you hate bugs? Yeah, us too. That's why we're constantly working to squish them. (Sorry bugs.) Here are the latest issues that our team has resolved.

Even More Permissive AI - We've made some improvements to Sudowrite's Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Engine. The AI is now less likely to refuse to generate spicy or violent prose when using the Write button or Chapter Generator.

Edit Functionality in Brainstorm - We restored the missing edit functionality in the Brainstorm tool, allowing users to once again revise their prompts mid-Brainstorm.

Restored Missing Icons - While fixing the Brainstorm tool, we identified a related issue that prevented some icons from being displayed. We've fixed that, and you'll once again see a reassuring little checkmark next to Saved each time your Sudowrite project is auto-saved.

Fixed Chapter Generator's "Continue" Option - Several models would not properly "continue where the text leaves off" when resuming from a paused Chapter Generation. We've fixed that, so all models now respect the toggle selection.

Generate Character and Element - We fixed an issue that caused the Generate Character and Generate Element buttons to be unresponsive. All buttons across the Story Bible sections now once again work the way they should.

We're also currently tracking a few issues specific to the Import Novel beta, such as an inability to create folders or rearrange documents on projects that were created from an Import. We'll let you know as soon as we've resolved those issues—and in the meantime, keep the bug reports coming folks.

We're reporting in with a few recent fixes, including one priority fix that we just rolled out.

Character and Element Generation - Several users reported that the Generate buttons in the Characters and Worldbuilding sections of Story Bible would not open the instruction box as expected. We just resolved this issue, and the ability to generate both characters and elements has been restored.

Resolved Write Errors - A small number of Sudowrite power users would occasionally encounter a NetworkError message after several successive uses of the Write button. We identified the issue and fixed it, meaning heavy users will not encounter that error under similar circumstances in the future.

Shrink Ray Issue - When selecting the Shrink Ray option from the Plugins dropdown, users may have been met with a blank page. We've fixed that, and it now directs to the Shrink Ray tool as expected.

Improved Story Bible Rewrites - The Rewrite Synopsis and Rewrite Outline sections of Story Bible have been updated to remove length constraints and improve their capacity to follow instructions.

Quick Chat Improvement - We received feedback that Quick Chat would sometimes respond with probing questions rather than completing a requested task. We've corrected this behavior, and Quick Chat should now be less likely to unconstructively ponder.

That's all for this week. Thanks as always to those of you who reported bugs. Please continue to use the Report a Bug button inside of Sudowrite to flag these issues to our attention.

It's a great day to make Sudowrite better! Here's a roundup of some of the latest fixes and improvements that our team has made.

Bug Fixes

Worldbuilding Trait Name Erasure - We fixed an issue specific to trait name fields on Worldbuilding cards, where typing too fast could cause lag that resulted in erased input.

Dark Theme Legibility - The action (•••) menu on projects and History cards was not visible in dark themes. Likewise, the card deletion confirmation prompt was illegible in dark themes. All menus and text should now be clearly visible across themes.

New Document Creation Flow - When creating a new document, you should always be put directly into that new document. This was not the case if you selected Add New and chose a specific chapter from the dropdown menu. We resolved that issue, and all new document creation flows now work as expected.

Too Many Lightning Bolts - We fixed the credits estimation that appears on a Plugin description page for any advanced plugins using GPT-4o Mini. It previously showed 3 lightning bolts in the "Credits use" box, but now correctly shows only 1. (GPT-4o Mini is really cheap!)

Rewrite Way Too Intense - After some work on the Rewrite button, it was brought to our attention that the More Intense rewrite style was being applied to all available options. We fixed that, so the available options (including Custom) once again work as expected.

Improvements

Increased 3.5 Sonnet Output Limit - We increased the maximum output token limit for Claude 3.5 Sonnet (from 4096 to 8192) to match the new maximum available via Anthropic. (This may be most relevant for those building advanced plugins with 3.5 Sonnet.)

Selection Menu Improvements - We fixed both the font and the icon rendering in the selection menu. The font is now consistent across platforms, and icons appear properly even when using dark themes.

Action Menu Improvements - If you have eagle eyes, you may have noticed the icon sizing in the action (•••) menu on project cards was not consistent. They are now uniformly sized and spaced.

Settings Menu Nudge - We shifted the Settings menu that you open using the upper righthand gear (⚙️) down ever so slightly. Now the gear remains visible and can be clicked to close the open Settings menu.

Thanks as always for bringing these issues to our attention!

Here are this week's bug fixes and improvements!

Bug Fixes

No More Unwanted Auto-Scrolling - When toggling into a document, you'll always be returned to wherever you were last working—but sometimes that's not your intent. The editor will no longer auto-scroll away once you've placed your cursor in the document, making for a smoother editing experience.

Title Documents Without Interruption - Pasting content into a blank document and then titling it could sometimes lead to the auto-titler jumping in and interrupting your work. This has been fixed, so manually titling documents is now more consistent (and less aggravating).

Quick Chat Shortcut Fix - We've updated the behavior of the Command-Enter shortcut. It now submits your Quick Chat (or Quick Edit) instead of closing the window.

Add Chapter Dropdown UI - The Add Chapter dropdown menu inside of Story Bible could occasionally become occluded by other interface elements when you had a bunch of chapters. We've resolved the bug responsible for that.

Usability Improvements

Restart Chapter Generation from Any Beat - While Chapter Generator still allows you to continue from wherever you may have paused, you now also have the option to restart from any beat, giving you more control over your process.

Improved Link Readability in Dark Themes - Specific links inside of the Plugin editor were difficult to read in the Charcoal and Cauldron themes. We've improved the contrast and readability of these links in dark themes.

Keep the great feedback coming, here or in our Discord community. Thanks, folks!

We've got a whole bunch of fresh fixes and improvements as of yesterday. Here's what's new!

Bug Fixes

• Quick Chat Loading Fix - Several users reported that Quick Chat was hanging indefinitely after they'd initiated a chat. The issue was isolated to larger projects, but we've fixed the underlying problem and you can now use Quick Chat in projects of any size without issue.

• Character Trait Defaults - When adding a Trait to your default character traits, the button to "Add Trait to Current Characters" was not working properly. Traits can now be applied to current characters when adding a default.

• Document Dragging Alignment - If you had a whole bunch of documents, and tried to drag one of them, you may have noticed that document was not aligned with your cursor in the process. We've resolved this issue, and docs drag the way they ought to.

Usability & Interface Improvements

• Better Document Duplication - Duplicating a document will now also copy the beats and linked chapter.

• Alignment Fixes - The tooltips for 'Collapse Menu' and 'Find and Replace' were ever so slightly misaligned. The mouseover state of the Trash was too! We fixed these alignment issues.

• Border Radius Consistency - Similarly, Story Bible and Canvas each had a different border radius in the left bar. We made them the same so Ryan can sleep at night.

• Extra Document Real Estate - Collapsing your toolbar now expands the document all the way up to the top of the page. (That means you can now fit even more words on your screen!)

• Cursor Retention in Quick Edit - Rejecting a Quick Edit selection now leaves your cursor or selection just the way it was, so you no longer need to use the mouse to click back into where you'd been working.

Thanks so much for bringing these items to our attention! Remember that you can always use the Report a Bug feature in the (?) dropdown menu on Sudowrite to put things on our radar.

We've made some improvements to Plugins, and fixed some user reported bugs as well. Here's what's new!

The Plugins test panel now displays Credits Used. Testing a Plugin before publishing it allows you to confirm its functionality. Now it also gives you context on how many credits it may cost to use once it's live. (Make note that the number provided in testing is for reference, and based off of your inputs specifically. It may not be representative of what it will cost other users—since credit use depends on both inputs and output.)

Basic Plugins can now receive Worldbuilding context. When building your basic Plugin, you'll now see a checkbox that allows you to optionally pass in Worldbuilding elements. Use this feature when you want your basic Plugin to consider a user's Worldbuilding elements when it's run. (Note that Worldbuilding variable options were already available in the Advanced Plugin builder.)

We've also resolved a couple of noteworthy issues.

• The Claude 3 models available in the Experimental section of your Write Settings were not receiving Story Bible context. We've resolved that issue so that the Write button now receives Story Bible context regardless of which model is selected (when Story Bible is enabled).

• Scrolling down to wherever you left off in a document can be annoying—and as it turns out, that's not the way things are supposed to work. We fixed the bug causing that issue, and now when you open a document you're automatically returned to the last place you were inside of it.

Here's a selection of some product refinements and bug fixes that we've recently shipped.

• Plugins Directory Pagination - With over 1,000 published plugins, the load time on the directory was getting longer—especially on slower networks and lower-spec devices. We added pagination to the plugin directory to improve load times.

• Quick Chat Context Fix - Quick Chat should understand what you're looking at in your current document, even when you don't have anything selected. It was not receiving that context, but Quick Chat is now aware of the text preceding your cursor.

• Linked Chapters Dropdown Menu - Too many chapters and too little screen real estate previously resulted in a lengthy linked chapters menu that could overflow the page. We capped the menu height and made it scrollable, so you'll no longer have to scroll your entire document to select later chapters.

• Worldbuilding Trait Addition Confirmation - When you add a custom trait to an existing Worldbuilding template, you're supposed to receive confirmation it has been applied to your existing elements. That was not the case. But now it is!

As always, thank you for raising these issues to our attention. Keep them coming folks!

Last week we launched Story Bible 2! In the days since launch we've been tackling priority issues as they've been flagged to our attention.

So far, we've:

• Conducted an extensive review of Story Bible 2 features for screen reader compatibility in an effort to improve accessibility.
• Improved the Character Role dropdown field so that text is either fully displayed or appropriately truncated.
• Added functionality for Undo and Redo inside of Characters and Worldbuilding card fields.
• Updated the Generate Random feature in Worldbuilding to make it more random and prevent repetitive generations.
• Corrected an issue that would prevent saving template edits to already customized Worldbuilding templates.
• Fixed the location and functionality of the three dot menus (•••) on Character cards and Worldbuilding elements, so they now close properly when clicking outside of them.
• Fixed a formatting issue in custom Worldbuilding element template titles.
• Implemented a whole bunch of other UI fixes, including several related to visibility issues when using dark themes.

Thank you to our earliest adopters for bringing these to our attention!

If you're ever uncertain about whether something is working as expected, you can get in touch with us (or other helpful members of our Sudowrite community!) in our Discord server here.

We're working on a bunch of improvements to Sudowrite that required us to move the editor and all of your projects from /app to a new domain at editor.sudowrite.com. We made that change last week, and it went off without a hitch!

Meanwhile, our team has been giving some time and attention to the less obvious corners of the app as well.

• We refined the Add New menu, fixing padding, making the icons uniform, and allowing it to overflow in the event your left bar is really narrow.
• We resolved a bug that would sometimes cause the Write button to inexplicably spit out some javascript code.
• We fixed a minor issue with Story Bible's Synopsis section related to formatting. Results will no longer begin with a blank space and line break.
• Finally, someone in our Discord community pointed out that the title of the Sudowrite browser tab was the first few words of their document rather than their Document title. We changed that setting so that your Document title will now be reflected in your browser tab for easier navigation.

Keep the feedback and requests coming!

When you have lots of documents or folders in your left bar and Story Bible enabled, the Story Bible menu will collapse to allow you to navigate your files. It's designed to expand again only when you hover over it, to allow you to navigate sections of Story Bible instead. Recently it was brought to our attention that this menu was repeatedly collapsing and expanding if someone tried to access a document or folder right on the cusp.

We've fixed that issue, and it once again works as intended—so Story Bible's menu will stay out of your way, unless you're explicitly trying to access it.

Here's a handful of user-reported bugs that we resolved this week.

• We received reports that our help chat window was opening up on pages where it typically wouldn't, in some cases blocking portions of the user interface. We resolved this issue, and the help chat will no longer obstruct things that it shouldn't. While we were at it, we also fixed an issue that could cause the help chat window to appear entirely empty!
• Since the launch of folders, some users have reported difficulty with moving files around in their left bar. We identified and resolved the root issue, and you can now move files precisely where you'd like them—into, out of, and between folders as desired. Organizers rejoice!
• Finally, it was brought to our attention that in some cases deleting an empty folder could cause the left bar to crash entirely. This would throw an ugly grey box into that left bar, and make navigation between documents impossible until a refresh. We've resolved the issue, and deleting empty folders now works as expected.

Thank you for continuing to raise your issues to our attention. Keep them coming folks!

We love Fix-it-Friday so much that sometimes we can't even wait till Friday to tackle the bug fixes and improvements you've requested. Here's a look at some recent upgrades and updates we've made to Sudowrite thanks to your feedback!

Upgrades

We continue to make incremental updates to Story Bible in advance of our planned Characters and Worldbuilding launch. Most recently we upgraded the model powering Synopsis to Claude 3 Sonnet, which has been recognized for its sense of humor, reasoning capabilities, and writing craft.

Meanwhile, the Characters tool (available under the Plugins dropdown) has been upgraded to use GPT 3.5 Turbo. This resolved an issue where it would refuse to generate characters.

Updates

We've officially taken the Feedback feature out of Labs. Everyone can now find Feedback under the Plugins dropdown.

Given that, and our improved beta processes, we've removed the Labs icon and page.

We've deprecated the old Tweetstorm tool, which previously appeared under Labs, in favor of a first party Tweetstorm plugin. (You can find that official Tweetstorm plugin here.)

We tweaked the interface so that clicking the Write (Guided) button will close an open Write Settings window in favor of the Guided Write menu. These previously overlapped.

Finally, we fixed an issue where the plethora of Experimental models available in the Write Settings Prose Mode selector could make that menu way too long. The Experimental section of that menu is now scrollable... which means we can add as many exciting new models as we want. :)

Keep 'em coming!

We've been hard at work resolving several user-reported bugs. Here's a quick look at some we fixed this week.

Folders

• The launch of folders made files in the left bar harder to click and drag. (You had to click directly on the Document or Folder's icon in order to move it.) You can now click anywhere on a Document or Folder—even the name—to drag it, as before.
• When trying to rename a Folder or Document, the icon for that file would disappear. Folder and Document icons now persist, even when you're in the middle of renaming them.
• Folders would sometimes wind up inside of the nearest folder when clicking and dragging them. We fixed it so that folders will only move inside of another folder when the cursor is immediately over the target folder.

More!

• Canvas: Our helpful customer support chat question mark icon was blocking the controls in Canvas. 😅 We've disabled the support chat button inside of Canvas to prevent this.
• Quick Tools: You may have noticed Quick Chat sneaking a peek at documents in your Trash. We fixed that, so Quick Edit and Quick Chat now correctly ignore deleted documents.
• Editor: If you happened to collapse your editor's toolbar while you had a tooltip window open, an empty the bubble remained. Tooltips now disappear along with the toolbar.
• Editor: We recently fixed the left bar so it would always expand to the size it was when collapsed, but we broke the ability to resize the center editor column in the process. That's now fixed, meaning with the left and right bar collapsed, you can resize the editor as desired.

Thanks so much for flagging these to our attention—keep them coming folks!

If you've ever collapsed your left column to make a bit more space for the editor, you may have noticed that it would not return to the size it was upon expansion. It worked like this:

Not great—and a frequent Fix-it-Friday runner up. Well, we've now resolved the issue, and that column will return to the previously set size when you re-open it.

Much better.

When writing in Sudowrite Documents, you may occasionally need to format something that includes a period but no spaces—such as a filename: blues_travel.mp3, for example. We identified an issue where URLs were being detected and automatically linked inside of these references. (In the example provied, travel.mp was hyperlinked.)

We've disabled that function. You can still include links in your Sudowrite Documents, but in order for them to be hyperlinks they must now start with "http://" or "https://".

If you've received a lengthy reply in Quick Chat, you may have noticed that the window's scrollbar could overlay the 🅇 close icon in the upper right corner.

We nudged the scrollbar over a bit, so this is no longer an issue.

We recently identified an issue that prevented folks from easily reordering the Documents in their Project's left bar.

As of Friday, that issue has been resolved. Reordering your docs should now once again be buttery smooth.

When building Plugins in Advanced mode, users have the option of including a wide range of variables in their custom instructions. Recently we made a few new variables available, including {{ scene_summary }} and {{ character_beats }}. While those variables worked flawlessly on new Plugins, there was an issue preventing them from working on older Plugins that predated them.

We've resolved that issue, and all available variables now work on Plugins regardless of when they were originally built.

Following recent improvements to our copy/paste formatting, we identified an issue where you may lose your paragraph structure if you copy and then paste out of either a History card or your Story Bible boxes within Sudowrite.

We've resolved that issue! Copy/paste will once again respect your line breaks, leaving paragraphs intact.

Some folks were encountering an issue where their Sudowrite page would spontaneously refresh after text was added into certain Story Bible fields. We've identified the cause of the issue and shipped a fix!

Hopefully this means you have an even easier time hitting flow state. 😌

Some users noticed that Story Bible would occasionally cut off mid-sentence when they generated Characters. Upon investigation, the issue had the potential to impact other Story Bible fields as well.

We just fixed it! All Story Bible generations will now complete normally—and as a bonus, Synopsis will do an even better job of taking genre into account going forward.

Did you know this week is Fix-it-Week at Sudowrite? And you can tell us what fixes, features, and improvements you'd like to see prioritized—just vote in our community Discord server: https://discord.gg/sudowrite

✅ We identified and resolved an issue that would intermittently cause the editor toolbar to disappear entirely after using First Draft. Thanks to our teachers for identifying this one.

✅ We fixed some legibility issues with dark themes, including one issue that made the credits pop-up super difficult to read. It should be much more legible now—assuming you have the feature toggled on in your settings, given that it's off by default.

✅ We fixed document titles so that they now have a max length, after which they will elegantly overflow into the document's body. This means that no one can accidentally paste their entire novel into a Sudowrite document's title field anymore. 🎉

These changes were a part of 🛠️ Fix-It-Friday. We've got another Fix-It-Friday coming up on Friday, January 19th. If you'd like to weigh in on your desired features, fixes, and improvements, you can do so in the Sudowrite community Discord server. Join here: https://discord.gg/sudowrite

We made some changes that have have resulted in improvemed performance, especially for folks using Sudowrite on slower or resource-strapped computers.

By reducing the renders triggered by our stores, Sudowrite now feels faster to load and navigate. If your experience was already buttery smooth, you may not notice much, but many of you should already be feeling the effects of this performance boost. 🚀

Two small quality of life fixes we wanted to update you on:

First, we've fixed a timeout bug that was identified within Story Engine when a user tried to cancel a function. It was previously triggering an error message and would occasionally require a page reload—but no longer. This issue has been resolved.

Also, there was an issue preventing users from double-clicking to rename multiple documents. You may have been able to rename the first document within a project, but no successive documents. That issue has also been resolved. Rename away!

1. Describe 🐞 - In certain situations Describe would refuse, just utterly refuse, to give you any description whatsoever. So rude. We had a long, hard conversation with Describe and set it straight.
2. Export 🐛 - Exported documents would sometimes contain HTML tags or other gobbledygook. And sometimes it would fail completely with longer documents. Now it works quite well even with very, very, very long docs. (We tested with up to 500,000 words.) And the gobbledygook? Gobbledygone. 😬

1. Duplicate document 🐞 - When duplicating a document, there was a bug that sometimes caused weird characters to show up in your new document. No longer!
2. Describe 🐛- Selecting the first word in a document and asking Sudowrite to describe it used to make Sudowrite very upset. Now it will gracefully describe that word.
3. Story Engine braindump 🦟 - Very long braindumps in Story Engine were causing errors on rewrite. Now they work great!

We've fixed several small bugs.

• Numbering items fixed in lists - A bug was hiding numbers when creating numbered lists. We squashed it.
• Better spacing for bulleted lists - We spruced up your bullet points.
• First draft card appears sooner - The history card for First Draft used to appear only after a page refresh. Now it makes its entrance as soon as First Draft is finished generating.
• Brainstorm cards can be favorited - Poor little brainstorm cards, they were the only kind of card no one loved, because there was simply no way to favorite them. Now there is.
• Descriptions repeat less now - Sometimes our AI would get stuck in a loop and repeat itself when describing things. We made it stop.
• First Draft repeats less now - Less repetition for everyone!

A list of recent bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where creating a new document in a project didn't automatically select the new document
• Fixed an issue where the first line in documents wasn't taken into account for the Write button
• Fixed certain situations where Brainstorm would be "stumped" even though it had ideas
• Fixed a card display issue when doing a Rewrite with a long custom modifier
• Fixed an issue that was causing long or persistent loading messages on login (please let us know if you still notice these!)
• Fixed an issue where the Sudowrite Chrome Extension prevented copy/paste under certain conditions (thanks Claptrap and Jake Kornegay for pointing this one out!)
• Fixed an issue that was causing Rewrite with the Rephrase option to repeat text (hat tip to Sudowrite user Federico Escobar for the fix on this one!)

We've made improvements to our model so that Write's Tones feature is more consistent in maintaining the selected tone and less prone to repetitions.

The main editing interface should no longer be cutoff for writers using iPad. Let us know if you see any other iPad issues by submitting a bug!