Nigh/show-me-the-story

<10 MB — self-hosted AI novel writer in a single Go binary with a web UI. Turn ideas into outlines and chapters with review, foreshadowing, fact-checking, and full-book polish. OpenAI-compatible APIs; Chinese & English.

What it solves

It provides a structured environment for authors to write long-form fiction using AI, solving the difficulty of maintaining consistency, planning complex plots, and managing world-building details across many chapters.

How it works

The application runs as a local executable with a browser-based interface. It connects to an OpenAI-compatible model service to handle the heavy lifting of prose generation. The user manages the story's direction by defining rules, characters, and worldview entries, which the AI uses as context. The workflow is divided into stages: planning batch outlines, drafting chapters, reviewing and revising prose, and final proofreading.

Who it’s for

Fiction writers and novelists who want to use AI to assist in drafting and polishing long stories while maintaining full creative control over the plot and setting.

Highlights

  • Comprehensive World-Building: Tools to manage characters, organizations, relationship graphs, and story knowledge.
  • Batch Planning: Ability to plan and review outlines for groups of chapters (up to 36) to ensure long-term narrative direction.
  • Consistency Tracking: Extracts facts with source references and tracks foreshadowing to prevent plot holes.
  • Lightweight Deployment: Ships as a single executable under 5 MB with local data persistence.
  • Flexible Revision: Supports targeted paragraph editing and chapter-level revisions based on specific knowledge entries.

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