AI Story Generator
Start with one sentence: a stolen map, a stranger at the door, a letter from the future. DreamPress plans the cast and the plot, then writes the story with you chapter by chapter, with pictures and narration along the way.
Stories already underway
Stories written here
Written on DreamPress and published by the people who wrote them. Open one, or start your own version of it.
A story that keeps going
Chapter forty remembers
The recent chapters go to the model in full and everything earlier goes as a summary, so chapter forty still knows what chapter one did. Characters, their history and your world notes ride along with every chapter.
See the story
Portraits for the cast, a cover for the shelf and pictures for the big scenes, in the style you pick. Anime is the default.
Hear it, then talk to it
Narration comes with every chapter at no extra cost. Then take a character out of the story and into a chat, where each character speaks in their own voice.
Ideas to start from
Take one as it is or change it to suit you. One sentence is all the story needs.
The long version
What an AI story generator does, how this one works, what it costs and how to write a better prompt.
How the DreamPress AI story generator works
- Start with one sentence. Type an idea into the box at the top of this page, or tap one of the suggestions. A premise, an opening line or a single character is enough. Outside the UK you can generate a plot from it right here, before you have an account.
- Meet the cast. The story wizard drafts the main characters with names, descriptions and portraits. Edit them, replace them or bring in characters you have already made.
- Choose a cover and a plot. Pick the cover and the picture style (anime is the default), then choose one of the suggested plot directions, ask for new ones or write your own.
- Write chapter one. Choose a length (Short, Medium or Long) and DreamPress writes the first chapter. Edit it directly, or ask the AI to rewrite a passage.
- Keep going. For each new chapter, pick one of the suggested next steps or type your own direction. Add scene pictures as you go, and turn on narration to hear the chapter read aloud.
Type one sentence and DreamPress turns it into a story you can keep writing: a cast of characters, a cover, a plot and a first chapter. From there you write it together, one chapter at a time. You can change any line, decide what happens next, add pictures of your characters and scenes, and listen to each chapter read aloud. DreamPress runs in any browser, there is a DreamPress app on the App Store for iPhone, and it is free to start.
What is an AI story generator?
An AI story generator is a tool that writes fiction from a short prompt. You describe an idea, such as a character, a place or a problem, and an AI language model writes a story from it.
Most AI story generators on the web work in one go. You type a prompt, pick a genre and a length, and get back a few hundred words of finished text. That is handy when you want a quick idea or a way past a blank page.
DreamPress is built for what comes after that first page. Instead of handing you one block of text, it sets up a story project with characters, a world and a plot, then writes it chapter by chapter while you steer. The average DreamPress chapter runs 2,208 words, and 817 writers have a story past 20 chapters. Over 800,000 writers have signed up.
Everything you make is saved to your library, so you can come back to a story tomorrow or next month and carry on where you stopped.
What you can make with it
Stories in any genre
Fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, horror, thriller, adventure, drama and comedy all work, and so do mixtures: a ghost story set on a space station, a detective story in a magic school, a love story during a heist. Tell DreamPress the tone you want in your first sentence and it carries it into the chapters.
Fanfiction and alternate universes
Write a new chapter for a world you already love, put original characters into a familiar kind of setting, or ask "what if" about a story that ended too soon. Characters you create keep their names, looks and history across chapters.
Interactive stories
Every chapter ends with a choice. Pick one of the suggested next steps, or ignore them and write exactly what should happen. It works like a choose-your-own-adventure book where you can also write the options. You can also add up to ten standing directions, such as "write in first person" or "magic always has a cost", and they apply to every chapter. Standing directions are free.
Stories with pictures
DreamPress makes character portraits, covers and scene pictures, and it can add pictures to chapters automatically as the story is written. An image costs 3 credits on every plan, Pro included. If you run out of credits, the picture is skipped and the text still generates.
Stories you can listen to
Narration comes with the chapter for nothing. Choose from 29 voices and blend up to three of them into one narrator. Replaying a saved chapter aloud costs 1 credit.
Chats with your characters
Take any character out of a story and into a chat. Set up the scene, talk to one character or several, and hear them answer: in a chat, the narration is read in the narrator's voice and each character's lines in their own voice.
More than a one-shot generator
One-shot story generators are good at one thing: a complete short story in a few seconds. If that is all you need, they are a fine choice, and many of them do not ask you to sign up.
The difference shows when you want the story to continue. Ask a one-shot tool for part two and it usually starts from nothing, with new names and a forgotten plot. DreamPress keeps the story straight across a whole book. The recent chapters go to the model in full, everything earlier goes as a summary, and the characters, their history and your world information ride along with every chapter. The twelve most recent chapters keep a full summary and older ones compress to a line, so nothing silently drops off the end.
A few other things change when a story is a project rather than a single reply:
- You steer as it goes. You change the next event after each chapter instead of waiting for a complete draft and starting over.
- You can edit anything. Rewrite a sentence yourself, or ask the AI to rewrite a passage, and the next chapter follows your version.
- Pictures and sound live in the same place. Covers, portraits, scene pictures and narration sit beside the text, not in another app.
- Your stories are kept. Your library holds every story. With Pro you can export a whole story to DOCX, PDF or TXT.
The trade-off is that writing chapters needs a free account, so there is one more step before your first chapter than on a no-sign-up tool.
What it costs: free and Pro
DreamPress runs on credits.
Free. Verify your email address and you get 15 credits every day, plus a one-off 50 for verifying, so 65 on day one. Write seven days running and the daily 15 becomes 20. It replaces the 15 rather than stacking on it. Daily credits are use-or-lose: they reset each day rather than piling up.
What things cost:
- A chapter costs 1 to 3 credits on the standard model, depending on length, and 3 to 8 on the premium model.
- An image costs 3 credits on every plan, Pro included.
- A chat reply costs 1 credit on the standard model, 2 on the premium one.
- Narration comes with the chapter for nothing. Replaying a saved chapter aloud costs 1 credit.
So the free daily credits cover at least five standard-model chapters a day, every day.
Pro. DreamPress Pro is $9.99 a month or $71.99 a year. It includes unlimited writing on the standard model within fair use, plus 1,000 credits a month that do not roll over and replace the daily allowance. Pro does not make images free, and premium-model chapters cost credits too. These are web prices; subscriptions bought in the iPhone app are billed by the App Store at the prices set there.
Tips for a better story prompt
A good first sentence gives the AI something to push against. These habits make the biggest difference:
- Start with a person who wants something. "A lighthouse keeper" is a setting. "A lighthouse keeper who needs the ship she just saved to sink" is a story.
- Add one problem or one rule. A secret, a deadline, a cost to the magic. Limits create choices, and choices create chapters.
- Name the place and the time. "A rainy port city in 1920" gives the AI a voice to write in. "A city" does not.
- Say the tone. Cosy, tense, funny, eerie, hopeful. One word changes how every chapter reads.
- Keep the first prompt short. Put the details into your characters and world information, where they stay with the story.
- Steer each chapter with one event. "She finds the second letter" works better than "make it more exciting".
- Use standing directions for rules. Point of view, tense, or a fact that must never change belong there, not in every prompt.
- Edit early. If chapter one gets a name or a detail wrong, fix it now. The next chapters build on what is on the page.
Here is the difference in practice. "A story about a dragon" gives you a dragon. "An old dragon who guards a library is asked to lend out its rarest book, and the borrower never brings it back" gives you a plot, a mood and a reason for chapter two.
Questions, answered
Is the AI story generator free?
Yes, it is free to start. Verify your email and you get 15 credits every day, plus a one-off 50 for verifying, rising to 20 a day on a seven-day writing streak. On the standard model a chapter costs 1 to 3 credits, so the daily credits cover at least five chapters. Pro is $9.99 a month if you want unlimited standard-model writing within fair use.
Can I use it without signing up?
Outside the UK you can try the plot generator at the top of this page without an account. To write chapters, save stories and make pictures, you need a free account. Email verification is what unlocks the free credits. Nothing else is gated behind it.
What kinds of stories can I write?
Almost any kind: fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, horror, thriller, adventure, drama, comedy and fanfiction, or a mix of several. You can write a short piece of a few chapters or a long serial, as a normal story or as an interactive one where you choose what happens next.
How long can a story be?
As long as you keep writing. Stories grow chapter by chapter, and DreamPress carries a memory of what happened: recent chapters in full, earlier ones as summaries, plus your characters and world information. Chapter forty still knows what chapter one did.
Can it make pictures for my story?
Yes. DreamPress makes character portraits, covers and scene pictures, and can add pictures to chapters as they are written. Anime is the default style and you can pick another. Each image costs 3 credits on every plan, Pro included.
Can I edit what the AI writes?
Yes. Every chapter is yours to change. Type over any line, ask the AI to rewrite a passage, or tell it what the next chapter should do. The story continues from your version, not the AI's first draft.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. DreamPress runs in any browser, including the one on your phone, so there is nothing to install. There is also a DreamPress app on the App Store for iPhone.
Can other people read my stories?
Only if you publish them. Publishing is a separate step you choose. When you publish, you give the story two genres and it can appear for other readers on DreamPress.
Write fanfiction
Give it a voice
Twenty-nine narrators, and every character in your story can have a voice of their own. Blend up to three into a custom voice nobody else has, then listen as the words light up while they're read — tap any word to hear it from there.
