03 · Deep Create
Deep Create: one idea or a long document
The AI researches and writes a complete work in the background; options, budget cap and resuming.
7 min read · Updated November 2026: story workbench (Overview / Story / World Book / Play / Publish), character cards, Deep Create and the art studio
What it does
Deep Create reads your idea (and looks up the source work for fan works), drafts an outline, then writes the world setting, cast, World Book, arcs and openings one by one, and checks everything before handing it over. A story takes about 10–20 minutes, a character card a few minutes, all in the background.
- The idea box holds up to 20,000 characters. For more, attach a document.
- Attached documents: .txt / .md, up to 300,000 characters — turn a setting you wrote elsewhere into a work. With a document attached the idea can stay empty; long documents are skimmed and indexed first.
- Fill in what the document leaves out: on, the AI writes the missing parts in the same spirit; off, it only converts what the document already has.
More options
- How many characters: about 10 / 20 / 40, or 50+. If your document lists many people, pick the largest; every named character with a description gets written.
- World Book topics and maps (up to 4): adjust to the work; maps default to what the story needs.
- Generate images too: cover, portraits (about 8 key characters, or everyone) and maps; you can pick the portrait style.
- Style it too: paint backgrounds, an opening key visual and event art, and style the play interface and opening page.
- Let me review the outline first: the AI stops after the outline so you can confirm or leave notes (e.g. “drop this character, add a female antagonist”), then continues.
Cost and budget cap
You see an estimated range before starting. Set a budget cap: that many Echoes are held at the start, you are charged for actual use and the rest is returned. Text, images and styling share one cap.
It runs in the background
- Close the window and do something else; the task tab at the bottom of the page opens it any time with progress and recent activity.
- One Deep Create task at a time; starting another opens the running one.
- If the model channel is briefly unavailable, the task waits and continues on its own.
- Cancelling settles what was already spent; no work is produced and it cannot be resumed.
- When done, Open work takes you to the workbench. Styling saved as a draft can be checked and published in its editor.