Brainstorming is coming to Dramatica! Starting tomorrow, you can call on a Brainstorming Agent right inside Narrova to riff on ideas, generate alternatives and explore new directions in your Storyform. It’s like having a creative partner that thinks without structure and plays in possibility.
We’re also rolling out a brand‑new Redo function—an easy way to take another pass at any generation. When you click Redo, you can choose from:
Take another pass – ask the agent to go back to the drawing board and come back with something completely fresh.
More concise – tighten things up for a shorter, punchier version.
More detailed – expand and enrich with deeper detail and texture.
I’ll be demoing both of these live tomorrow Wednesday, October 22 2025 at 12:00 PM Pacific during our next Narrova livestream. Come see how the Brainstorming Agent and Redo options open up a whole new creative flow between Dramatica and Narrova.
Weird bug here. I have to do a lot of background detail work while brainstorming/outlining a book, and usually use Storyweaving to do it – which works great. I thought to give the Brainstormer Bot a try.
The Bot switched from the topic I was brainstorming (asking where a character would buy cheese and wine in a medieval village), so maybe I went outside its guardrails and bent its mind?
WHAT THE BRAINSTORMER WAS THINKING IN RESPONSE TO MY QUESTION IN THE HIDDEN > BRACKET: I’m thinking of suggesting a small wheel of cheese, around 2-3 lb, and a flagon of claret, about a quart to a liter. I need to outline steps to purchase: travel to Baldock market, find a cheesemonger and a vintner. It’s important to inspect the cheese, ask for fresh or aged options, and haggle using silver pennies or groats. In a medieval market, I’d sample the cheese and buy wine either in a leathern wineskin or sealed flask. I could reference “medieval measures,” too!
Finished.
Searching.
Searching.
IT GOT STUCK, SO I TOLD IT: keep going
IT EVENTUALLY SPAT OUT:
The child starts a secret archive: a hidden library where people deposit written memories and objects before they’re forgotten, and she becomes the stubborn guardian of a past everyone else can’t hold onto.
A charismatic cult claims the child is the living “End of Time” and manipulates her image to control the regressing masses, forcing her to choose between safe anonymity and changing a society that already erases its own history.
Scientists invent a device that lets anyone experience a single forward-moving hour — it becomes a black-market narcotic, and the child must decide whether to weaponize that hour to teach people what they’re losing.
Her aging pet becomes a conspiracy detective: as it grows older and wiser, it pieces together disappearing clues about who or what flipped time, leading them into a city where murals age backward and statues remember faces no one else recalls.
In a quiet twist, the child meets someone born at the exact opposite moment—another person who experiences perfectly mirrored time. Together they experiment with sending messages forward and back, discovering small, mischievous ways to alter memories without collapsing the world.
I don’t think it got stuck as much as it was continuing to search the web to find the most comprehensive answers for you in regards to cheese! Only thing is - the Brainstorming Agent doesn’t have access to web search so i’m not sure what happened there precisely. It almost looks as if it was still stuck on Storyweaving, but then when you said “keep going” before it was finished (which also shouldn’t be possible!), that it got confused.
I’ve been trying out some brainstorming on Narrova. Having some fun.
And having a couple odd troubles. Wondering whether you experienced these?
1.) I will be entering new prompts in on a stream/thread and the response populate (logically) at the bottom of the stream. But after awhile, they start to randomly populate up inside the thread—and it’s often challenging to find it, particularly on a longer thread I’ve been brainstorming on. Is there anyway to remedy that?
2.) I’m having some trouble understanding how to load context, stories, storyforms. It seeme intuitive at first. But now I am running into an situation in which I started a new “story”. When I go to select StoryForm, none of my storyforms are there to select. What am I missing here. Is there a prescribed order to set up a story?
