Story to episode generator
A story is more than a situation; it moves. This generator takes a story idea and gives it the shape of an episode: an opening that sets the terms, a middle that turns, and an ending that leaves a hook, with each beat rendered as its own scene.
Episodes have a shape, and the drafter knows it
The drafter is instructed to write an episode, not a montage. The first scene establishes who we are with and what they want. The middle scenes raise the pressure or reveal something. The last scene ends on a cliffhanger, which is written separately and stored so the next episode can pick it up. A 60-second episode compresses that into five to seven scenes; two minutes allows up to twelve.
This is why the drafter asks for a story idea rather than a list of shots. Give it the turn, the thing that changes, and it will place the scenes on either side of it.
Keeping the cast small on purpose
Short vertical episodes work best with two or three people. The drafter is limited to three characters per scene and encouraged to keep the same cast across the whole episode so it reads as one story. A story idea with a crowd will be drafted around the two or three people who matter most, which is usually the right call for a ninety-second piece.
If a character you need does not exist yet, generate them in the library before drafting and name them in the story idea. The drafter treats a named library character as a strong hint.
Sets as story beats
A change of location is a change of beat, and the drafter uses the sets that way. A story that moves from the rooftop garden to the hotel corridor at midnight has two distinct phases, and the renderer keeps each location consistent across the scenes set there because the same set image is attached each time.
The preset sets were chosen to carry drama without explanation: a drained swimming pool at dawn, a stadium tunnel, a riverside boathouse. Your own sets, generated or uploaded, sit alongside them.
Cliffhangers and what comes next
Every drafted episode ends with a written cliffhanger, even if you only ever make one. When you draft a second episode in the same series, the premise, the previous synopses and that cliffhanger are all passed to the drafter, so the new episode opens on the consequence rather than from a cold start.
A series can hold up to sixty episodes. In practice a story idea that was one sentence becomes four or five episodes before you have written anything longer than a logline.
Reading the draft as a story
The review screen is a script page: title, synopsis, then each scene with its line, cast, set and duration. Read it top to bottom as a story before you look at the price. If the turn lands in the wrong place, move a few seconds between scenes or rewrite the line where it should land; if the ending is soft, rewrite the final line. Only then confirm.
The confirm step charges exactly the total shown, renders every scene at once, and assembles the episode when the last one is done.