Blog · August 23, 2026 · Novelbound tutorials & workflows
Choose the form, answer the focused setup questions, inspect the records they create, and begin with one concrete promise to the reader.
Begin by choosing what you are actually making. A novel gets chapters and scenes, a picture book gets spreads and pages, a stage play gets acts and production concerns, and a poetry collection preserves the line breaks that define the work.
Move through onboarding one question at a time. Use a working title if necessary. Describe one reader rather than a market segment, write the sentence you would use when someone asks what the book is about, and choose the closest genre shelf. Every answer can be changed later.
When the workspace opens, inspect what already exists. The logline is in the header, the first character carries a want and need, and the first reader promise appears as a thread. These are working records, not answers stored in an invisible questionnaire.
On day one, resist expanding everything. Complete the single prompt, then use the manuscript or story-bible section it created. The 90-day program is a sequence of small decisions that accumulate into a book, not ninety days of planning before writing begins.
Export remains available throughout the process. Your prose stays readable as markdown, and finishing the program prepares the additional files and metadata needed for publication.
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