storytelling

Storytelling: Turn Your Ideas Into Complete Narratives

Transform a simple story idea into a fully-written, multi-chapter narrative. WillWrite is an AI-powered storytelling partner that handles the heavy lifting—outline generation, chapter planning, scene development, and revision—so you can focus on your creative vision.

What It Does ?

Create complete stories in minutes. You provide a story prompt. The system generates:

• A structured outline with plot, characters, and themes
• Individual chapters with detailed chapter outlines
• Four polished scenes per chapter
• Multiple revision passes for consistency and quality
• Session persistence—pause and resume anytime

Powered by advanced AI orchestration. Built on LangGraph and LangChain with multi-LLM provider support, knowledge-base integration, and intelligent retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Getting Started

Installation

# Basic installation
pip install storytelling

# With full features (web fetching, local embeddings, cloud logging)
pip install storytelling[all]

Your First Story

# Create a prompt file
echo "A detective discovers a mysterious library" > my_prompt.txt

# Generate your story
storytelling --prompt my_prompt.txt --output my_story.md

Your completed story appears in my_story.md.

Using Your Own LLMs

# With local Ollama
storytelling --prompt prompt.txt \
  --initial-outline-model "ollama://mistral@localhost:11434"

# With Google Gemini
storytelling --prompt prompt.txt \
  --initial-outline-model "google://gemini-2.5-flash"

Key Features

Flexible AI Providers

• Google (Gemini, PaLM)
• Ollama (local models)
• OpenRouter (community models)
• Custom endpoints

Knowledge-Aware Generation

• Integrate your own knowledge bases
• Web content retrieval
• Semantic context enhancement
• Consistent worldbuilding

Session Management

• Pause and resume at any stage
• Checkpoint-based recovery
• Narrative branching
• Full generation history

Production Ready

• Comprehensive logging with Langfuse
• Type-safe with Pydantic
• Configurable for various use cases
• Extensible architecture

Command Line

storytelling --help                    # See all options
storytelling --prompt file.txt         # Generate story
storytelling --list-sessions           # See your past sessions
storytelling --resume <session-id>     # Continue a session

Documentation

• Full Setup Guide: See scripts/init.sh for environment setup
• Architecture: Check rispecs/ directory for detailed specifications
• Specifications: RISPECS.md contains implementation architecture
• Prompts & Models: rispecs/Prompts.md and rispecs/LLM_Provider_Specification.md

Development

# Setup development environment
./scripts/init.sh

# Run tests
make test

# Check code quality
make lint

# Build and release
make release-check

License

CC0-1.0 License - See LICENSE

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