I have not used BookNova in about six weeks, and the new manual features ar e a great improvment.
I noticed the Custom Details dropdown in the
Character creation section
currently includes Note, Trait, and Mannerism. It would be useful to add a few more categories:
Habit
Flaw
Fear
Secret
Limitation
Physical Consequence
Core Rule
Skill
Belief
Trigger
These would help define characters more precisely and give the writing AI clearer continuity rules. For example, a Core Rule could state that a character never knowingly lies, never uses violence, or never claims supernatural powers. A Physical Consequence could track a permanent injury across later chapters. A Limitation could stop the AI from making a character suddenly capable of something outside their established knowledge.
The expanded manual controls already look much stronger than the version I used before. If the AI follows these fields consistently, this may be one of the best character-building systems I have seen in an AI book writer.