Novel Visual Studio

Novel Visual Studio (NVS) is a desktop writing IDE for dialogue-driven fiction. You write Markdown scenes; an in-process engine reads them and keeps narrative ledgers — threads, cast presence, coherence findings, reveals — surfaced as panels beside your work.

The story always stays as plain files. Analysis lives co-located in a .novel-scribe/ folder next to your manuscript (like .git), so a project is portable, shareable, and never locked into the app.

Why it exists

Long fiction fails on coherence, not prose: a dropped subplot, a character who's in two places at once, a reveal that lands before its setup. NVS turns those into something you can see while you draft, instead of catching them in a late editing pass.

Where to go next

• Getting started — install, open a project, write your first scene.
• Core concepts — threads, cast presence, coherence, and how the engine reads your scenes.