# Storskarvia

> Storskarvia is a professional writing studio for novels, screenplays, and video scripts, with an AI staff that fact-checks your work but never writes your prose. The byline stays yours, provably.

Storskarvia gives a working writer the staff a film or publishing studio has (a fact-checker, a continuity editor, a researcher, a story-bible keeper) while holding one hard line: the AI never writes a word of your draft. It reads, checks, researches, and remembers; the words stay yours. An Aristocratix project.

## Product
- [Home](https://storskarvia.com/): The writing studio and its AI staff.
- [Pricing](https://storskarvia.com/pricing): Plans, including a free tier.
- [How the fact-checking works](https://storskarvia.com/fact-checking): Findings only: cited, adversarially verified, structurally unable to flatter, and it never rewrites your work.
- [Free anachronism checker](https://storskarvia.com/anachronism-checker): Paste up to 1,500 words of period fiction or screenplay and get back cited findings on details that could not exist when the scene is set. No account needed; the passage is not stored.
- [About](https://storskarvia.com/about): The "never writes for you" philosophy and the cormorant behind the name.

## Who it's for
- [Novelists](https://storskarvia.com/for-novelists): Continuity across a whole book, a fact-checker for fiction, a research desk, a self-building story bible, and one continuous draft that auto-organizes into chapters.
- [Screenwriters](https://storskarvia.com/for-screenwriters): True Courier pagination, Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain import and export, Movie Magic (.mmsw) import, US and UK television layout, continuity and fact-checking, and a table read.
- [Playwrights](https://storskarvia.com/for-playwrights): Standard stage-play format (centered cues, stage directions, acts and scenes), continuity across a full-length play, and fact-checking.
- [Scripted podcasts & audio drama](https://storskarvia.com/for-podcasters): An audio format with narration, dialogue, and SFX/music cues, runtime from the spoken word, and a fact-checker built for true crime and documentary.
- [Video creators](https://storskarvia.com/for-video-creators): A two-column A/V (video/audio) script format and a fact-checker for the credibility a channel runs on.

Formats supported: novels, film & TV screenplays (US and UK), TV series with a self-building series bible, stage plays, scripted podcasts & audio drama, and two-column broadcast/video scripts. The fact-checker corroborates across independent sources and scores each finding's confidence.

## How it compares
- [vs Sudowrite](https://storskarvia.com/sudowrite-alternative): Sudowrite generates prose; Storskarvia refuses to, and checks it instead.
- [vs Final Draft](https://storskarvia.com/final-draft-alternative): Matches the industry format, adds a fact-checker and continuity editor.
- [vs Scrivener](https://storskarvia.com/scrivener-alternative): Keeps the organization, adds an AI research-and-checking staff.

## Guides
- [How to Build a Story Bible](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-build-a-story-bible): What belongs in a story bible, how to structure characters, places, and world rules, and how to keep it from drifting out of sync with your draft.
- [How to Fact-Check Your Novel](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-fact-check-your-novel): Fiction still has to get its facts right. A practical, step-by-step method for catching real-world and internal errors before a reader does.
- [Screenplay Format: A Complete Guide](https://storskarvia.com/guides/screenplay-format-guide): Every element of standard screenplay format, the rules that actually matter, and the folklore you can safely ignore.
- [How to Keep Continuity in a Long Novel](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-keep-continuity-in-a-novel): Why details drift over four hundred pages, and a system for keeping eyes, timelines, and props consistent to the last chapter.
- [How to Outline a Novel (Without Killing the Magic)](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-outline-a-novel): Beat sheets, treatments, and the headlights method: how much structure actually helps a novel, and how to keep an outline true once the draft starts arguing back.
- [How to Write a Video Essay Script](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-write-a-video-essay-script): A video essay lives or dies on its argument. How to structure one, write narration for the ear, plan the visual lane, and get the facts right before you record.
- [How to Research Historical Fiction](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-research-historical-fiction): Where to find real period detail, how deep to dig, how to keep the research out of your prose, and how to verify the draft against the actual calendar.
- [How to Write Dialogue That Sounds Real](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-write-realistic-dialogue): Why a transcript reads as fake, how subtext and register give characters separate mouths, dialect without phonetic spelling, and testing every line by ear.
- [Three-Act Structure: A Practical Guide](https://storskarvia.com/guides/three-act-structure-guide): What the three acts actually do, where the act breaks and the midpoint fall, why act two sags, and how to use structure as a diagnostic instead of a formula.
- [How to Avoid Anachronisms in Period Writing](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-avoid-anachronisms): Why a wrong wristwatch survives four rereads, the five categories period errors cluster into, the things that are older than you think, and how to date every prop and phrase in a draft.
- [Point of View in Fiction: A Complete Guide](https://storskarvia.com/guides/point-of-view-in-fiction): What first, second, third limited and omniscient each buy and cost, how psychic distance works, why head-hopping flattens a scene, and how to stop a narrator knowing what they were never told.
- [Self-Editing Your Manuscript: A Checklist](https://storskarvia.com/guides/self-editing-checklist): The five passes to run before anyone else reads the draft, in the order that stops you polishing prose you are about to cut, and why continuity and facts each need a pass of their own.
- [How to Keep Continuity Across a Series](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-track-a-series-bible): One canon across every book or season: how to track what each character knows and when, keep a series calendar, and audit between installments.
- [Manuscript Format for Novel Submissions](https://storskarvia.com/guides/manuscript-format-for-submission): The font, spacing, header and chapter layout agents expect, how to state a word count, and the typewriter-era rules you can safely drop.
- [Was That Word Used in 1890? How to Catch Anachronistic Language](https://storskarvia.com/guides/anachronistic-words-and-phrases): Why OK is older than it sounds and stressed out is newer, how to date a word or idiom yourself, and when the modern word is right anyway.
- [Fact-Checking a Screenplay: Period Accuracy Before the Table Read](https://storskarvia.com/guides/screenplay-fact-checking): Every period detail in a script becomes a prop, a costume or a spoken line. Who catches the errors, and a five-pass method for finding them first.
- [Historical Accuracy Checker: A Checklist for Period Fiction and Scripts](https://storskarvia.com/guides/historical-accuracy-checklist): Six drawers where period errors hide, from objects and money to law and travel times, the source that settles each, and how to log every fix.
- [How to Run an Anachronism Check on Your Manuscript](https://storskarvia.com/guides/how-to-check-a-manuscript-for-anachronisms): A worked check on a 1936 scene: list every datable detail, date each against a source, and read the result as a punch list. Plus what a checker can and cannot catch.
- [How to Fact-Check Your Novel Before You Query](https://storskarvia.com/guides/fact-check-your-novel-before-querying): The accuracy pass to run before agents see your pages: what to check first, a checklist from dates to medicine, a sources log, and tools that check without writing.

## The Manual
The full instruction manual for using Storskarvia, written as a book and added to as the product moves toward beta. Contents and search: https://storskarvia.com/manual (machine-readable index: https://storskarvia.com/manual/search.json)
- [What Storskarvia Is, and the One Thing It Will Not Do](https://storskarvia.com/manual/what-skarvia-is): The studio model, the bright line against writing your prose, and an honest account of what the AI staff does and does not touch.
- [Your First Project and Your First Document](https://storskarvia.com/manual/your-first-project): From a new account to a page you can type on: creating a project, choosing its type, and finding your way around the binder.
- [Where Your Work Lives: Storage, Autosave, and Versions](https://storskarvia.com/manual/where-your-work-lives): Storskarvia writes real files into your own Dropbox, Google Drive, or a folder on your machine. What it writes, when it syncs, and how to get an earlier draft back.
- [Connecting Dropbox](https://storskarvia.com/manual/connecting-dropbox): The authorisation handoff, the app folder Storskarvia is sandboxed into, how the paths you type translate, and every way the connection can break.
- [Connecting Google Drive](https://storskarvia.com/manual/connecting-google-drive): The authorisation handoff, why Storskarvia can only ever see the files it created, the My Drive folder layout, and the reconnect prompt that catches people out.
- [Saving to a Folder on Your Own Machine](https://storskarvia.com/manual/saving-to-this-computer): Pointing a document at a folder on this computer: which browsers can do it, the folders yours will refuse, what gets written, and the re-authorise click after a restart.
- [Versions: Checkpoints, Named Saves, and Restoring](https://storskarvia.com/manual/versions-and-restoring): The two kinds of version Storskarvia keeps, how far back each one goes, what restoring does to the document on screen, and where the copies in your own cloud .versions/ folder come from.
- [When Sync Goes Wrong](https://storskarvia.com/manual/when-sync-goes-wrong): Every storage state the status bar can show you, what each one means for your work, and the exact fix: reconnecting a lapsed provider, clearing an occupied path, and recovering unsaved text your browser kept.
- [A Tour of the Editor](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-editor-tour): The document bar, the ribbon tabs, the navigator, the manuscript, the findings rail and the status bar: what lives where, what changes with your format, and what the warnings mean.
- [The Keyboard](https://storskarvia.com/manual/keyboard-shortcuts): Every shortcut Storskarvia binds, grouped by what you are doing: the ones that work everywhere, the element numbers that change with your format, and the ones you type rather than press.
- [Find and Replace](https://storskarvia.com/manual/find-and-replace): Searching the document you have open, stepping through the matches, replacing one or all of them, and the character rename that find and replace should never be used for.
- [Focus Mode, Typewriter Scrolling, and the View Tab](https://storskarvia.com/manual/focus-mode-and-view): Every control on the View tab: stripping the screen back to the manuscript, keeping the cursor at a fixed height, dark mode, zoom, and a second document open beside the draft.
- [Word Counts, Page Counts, and Daily Goals](https://storskarvia.com/manual/word-counts-and-goals): What each number in the status bar counts, why three kinds of page can disagree, and how the daily goal decides what “today” means.
- [Footnotes, Images, and Tables](https://storskarvia.com/manual/footnotes-images-tables): The word-processor features a novel gets, where each one lives in the Insert tab, and exactly which exports carry it.
- [Writing a Novel](https://storskarvia.com/manual/writing-a-novel): One continuous draft, how Storskarvia recognises your chapters, what to do when it does not, and why the page count on screen is an estimate.
- [Screenplay Elements and How to Type Them](https://storskarvia.com/manual/screenplay-elements): All seventeen screenplay elements, what Enter and Tab do to each one, the lines that form themselves as you type, and how to set two characters talking at once.
- [SmartType: Scene, Character and Transition Suggestions](https://storskarvia.com/manual/smarttype): The suggestion list under the caret in a screenplay: scene intros, locations and times of day, the cast and their extensions, transitions, what the lists learn from, and how to turn them off.
- [Scene Numbers, Title Pages, and Revisions](https://storskarvia.com/manual/scene-numbers-and-title-pages): The Script tab's production furniture: scene numbers, the title page and where it prints, locked pages and A-pages, revision colours and stars, and omitting a scene.
- [Renaming a Character Everywhere](https://storskarvia.com/manual/renaming-characters): The Rename Character dialog, which lines it rewrites and which it leaves alone, and the checkbox that reaches into your action and dialogue.
- [Writing a Stage Play](https://storskarvia.com/manual/stage-play-format): The nine stage-play elements and what Enter and Tab do to each, the cast page and front matter you fill in once, the three house styles, and which exports carry them.
- [Audio Drama and Scripted Podcast Format](https://storskarvia.com/manual/audio-drama-format): The six audio drama elements and what Enter and Tab do to each, the spoken rate that drives every timing number, and the cue sheet, casting list and runtime built from the script.
- [Two-Lane Video Scripts](https://storskarvia.com/manual/video-script-two-lane): The voiceover and visual lanes, the broadcast two-column grid and the row commands that keep VIDEO and AUDIO paired, the running-time estimate and the durations you set yourself, and the teleprompter built from the audio column.
- [Television Layout: US and UK](https://storskarvia.com/manual/television-us-and-uk): Act marks, sequences and act-outs on the page, the structure bands that show an episode's shape, the UK television preset and what it does not change, and single-camera against multi-camera.
- [Format Elements: Indents, Spacing, (MORE) and Continueds](https://storskarvia.com/manual/format-elements): Change where each screenplay element sits on the page: left and right indents, blank lines before, bold, underline and capitals, whether New Act starts a page, and the (MORE) and (CONT'D) marks.
- [Series, Seasons, and Episodes](https://storskarvia.com/manual/series-and-episodes): Running a show as one project: the series bible, seasons as binder folders, episode order, the world every episode shares, and what continuity can and cannot see across them.
- [The Table Read](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-table-read): Casting a voice per character and hearing your pages read back: what is spoken, what is skipped, and where the cast list and your script disagree.
- [Insights: Who Talks, Where, and For How Long](https://storskarvia.com/manual/insights): Reading the Insights panel and what each number is actually measuring, including the three it measures loosely.
- [The Story Bible](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-story-bible): What the Story Bible holds, how an entry is put together, and why the continuity editor is sharper once you have one.
- [Aliases, Custom Fields, and Hover Cards](https://storskarvia.com/manual/story-bible-aliases-and-fields): Making the Story Bible match how your draft actually refers to people and places, and turning an entry into something a check can hold your pages to.
- [Filling the Story Bible From a Draft](https://storskarvia.com/manual/filling-the-story-bible-from-a-draft): The two buttons that read pages you have already written: the free cue-and-slugline sync, and the AI pass that proposes entries for you to tick.
- [The Outline Board](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-outline-board): Planning structure alongside the draft: beat cards, the long-form treatment, and keeping the two honest with each other.
- [The Research Library](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-research-library): Where the material you brought and the cited answers Storskarvia found are both filed, what a note keeps, and how to find one again months later.
- [The Timeline](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-timeline): Placing events on a story calendar, in story days or in real dates, and catching the stretches of time that are invisible in prose.
- [The Lookbook](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-lookbook): Turning Story Bible characters and locations into visual boards: the house style, what is actually sent, and what an image credit buys.
- [Collections](https://storskarvia.com/manual/collections): Grouping documents inside a project without moving them in the binder: lists you put together and saved searches that keep themselves up to date.
- [Compiling a Whole Project](https://storskarvia.com/manual/compiling-a-project): Assembling every document into one manuscript: section layouts, chapter numbering, front matter, and the eight formats it writes out to.
- [Production Breakdown and Reports](https://storskarvia.com/manual/production-breakdown): Scene, character, location and cast reports, element tagging, the stripboard, and Day Out of Days, all read from the script itself.
- [Running a Fact-Check](https://storskarvia.com/manual/running-a-fact-check): Starting a check, what it reads and what it leaves alone, where the evidence comes from, how long it takes, and what it costs against your allowance.
- [Reading a Finding](https://storskarvia.com/manual/reading-findings): The anatomy of a defect card: the problem pill, the confidence percentage, the quote and Jump, the explanation and its unconfirmed-figure note, the sources, and what Resolve and Dismiss actually do.
- [The Skeptic: Why You See Fewer Findings Than It Found](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-skeptic): The adversarial reviewer that argues for your manuscript: what it is handed, what counts as a defence, what it throws away, and why a clean result can follow a flag.
- [The Period Expert](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-period-expert): How the fact-check holds real-world detail against the period your pages state, where it gets the date, and what it can and cannot know.
- [Running a Continuity Check](https://storskarvia.com/manual/continuity-checks): What the continuity editor compares, what a Story Bible adds, and how to read a finding that quotes two passages against each other.
- [Asking the Researcher a Question](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-researcher): Highlighting a passage, phrasing a question the search can use, what the Researcher cannot see, and how to read a cited answer before you rely on it.
- [What a Check Costs](https://storskarvia.com/manual/what-checks-cost): The 10,000-word unit, what each staff action costs, which words are counted, why a check that will not fit is refused whole, prepaid checks, and when the allowance renews.
- [When the Report Says Nothing](https://storskarvia.com/manual/no-issues-found): Reading a clean result honestly: what the number counts, what was never checked, the runs Storskarvia refuses to call clean, and why there is no praise channel.
- [The Free Anachronism Checker](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-anachronism-checker): The public checker on the website: what it reads, what it keeps, and how it differs from a fact-check inside a project.
- [Share Links, Reviewers, and Editors](https://storskarvia.com/manual/share-links-and-roles): Minting an invite link, what a reviewer and an editor can each do, what happens when somebody opens the link, and how the server enforces the difference.
- [Suggestion Mode and Tracked Changes](https://storskarvia.com/manual/suggestion-mode): Working in suggestions, what the marks mean, the Changes rail, and accepting or rejecting a pass without losing the draft underneath it.
- [Comments and Threaded Replies](https://storskarvia.com/manual/comments): Pinning a note to a passage, replying, resolving, who may close a thread, and where unresolved comments gather across a whole project.
- [Reviewing Someone Else’s Draft](https://storskarvia.com/manual/reviewing-someone-elses-draft): The view from the other side of an invite: claiming the link, what the editor lets a reviewer or editor do, and what to do when a save is refused or the share ends.
- [Revoking Access](https://storskarvia.com/manual/revoking-access): Ending a share, what happens to the collaborator the moment you confirm, what stays in your draft, and what no revoke can take back.
- [Importing Final Draft, Fountain, and Text](https://storskarvia.com/manual/importing-fdx-fountain-text): Where the Import button lives, what each format brings with it and leaves behind, and why an import can open in a new project.
- [Importing From Scrivener](https://storskarvia.com/manual/importing-from-scrivener): Bringing a whole project across from Scrivener, Fade In or Celtx, what happens to its binder, what stays behind, and the size limits.
- [Exporting a Typeset PDF](https://storskarvia.com/manual/exporting-pdf): Courier-true screenplay pages, book pages for prose, standard manuscript format for submission, and what each one leaves out.
- [Watermarked Drafts and Revision Stars](https://storskarvia.com/manual/watermarked-and-revision-pdfs): Stamping a recipient's name on a draft, and marking what changed since a saved version.
- [Exporting an EPUB](https://storskarvia.com/manual/exporting-epub): Making an ebook of a novel or a compiled book, where its chapters come from, what goes inside, and the label an e-reader files it under.
- [Exporting Word, Final Draft, Fountain, and Text](https://storskarvia.com/manual/exporting-docx-fdx-fountain): Which format to hand to whom, and what each one preserves.
- [Plans and Allowances](https://storskarvia.com/manual/plans-and-allowances): Free, Pro, and Studio: what each includes, and how the monthly allowance behaves.
- [Buying More Checks](https://storskarvia.com/manual/buying-more-checks): Top-ups: what one buys, when it is spent, and what happens when the allowance and the top-up both run out.
- [The Founders' Beta](https://storskarvia.com/manual/the-founders-beta): Founder seat numbers, the badge, the founders wall, and what a seat means.
- [Your Data and Your Privacy](https://storskarvia.com/manual/your-data-and-privacy): What Storskarvia holds, what it sends to a model provider, and what zero retention changes.
- [Cookie Preferences and the Emails We Send](https://storskarvia.com/manual/cookies-and-emails): The measurement question, changing your answer, and which emails Storskarvia sends and how to stop them.
- [Account Settings and Passwords](https://storskarvia.com/manual/account-settings): Your name, your password, two-step sign-in, and the devices you are signed in on.
- [Connecting an AI Assistant](https://storskarvia.com/manual/connecting-an-ai-assistant): MCP access keys: what a connected assistant can read and write, how to scope it, and how to cut it off.
- [Leaving, and Taking Everything With You](https://storskarvia.com/manual/leaving-with-your-work): Closing an account, and why your manuscript was never hostage to it in the first place.

## For AI agents
Storskarvia exposes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint at https://storskarvia.com/mcp with read-only tools describing the product (features, pricing, guides). Authenticated tools for your own projects are available with a personal API key generated from your account.