Open-Beta Import Novel Chapter Limit

I found this with help from Sudowrite support.

I was uploading a number of my already-published books for the story bible to make a series bible and noticed that one would fully upload but then the ‘story bible’ would consist of only 12 real chapters and a bunch of made-up detail, which would have been okay creating a new story, but not representing (for tracking a series’ purpose) an existing, already-published, one.

The break seems to occur at around 40 - 42 chapters, even if the submitted novel is well under 120k words (mine were all 70 to 80K words, with the book I discovered this issue on coming in at 78K words and 57 plus a prologue and epilogue → resulting in only the prologue, epilogue and 15 random chapters being passed to the story bible). NOTE: The entire manuscript was uploaded and imported. The only issue was that the entire contents of the uploaded manuscript weren’t used to create the story bible sections.

My suggestions would be either:

1. Please up the level of chapters the Story Bible can parse/handle.

2. Add to the “Import Novel” documentation to note that, when the threshold of chapters is passed (around 40 -42), the Story Bible will only grab some of the uploaded document and then use that to populate the story bible incorrectly (in my case, the document was fully uploaded and present, but the Story Bible only chose 13 to 15 random chapters to create the synopsis, character list, world building and outline, all of which contained made-up information since the 13 to 15 chapters of the novel didn’t include enough information to fill even 13 chapters.)

Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached via the email listed in my account.

Thanks, and keep up the good work. I don’t mean to be harsh or critical here, just pointing out something I found out the long way and hoping to, at least, save some folks the head-scratching ;)

, Mike