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Generating Summary for entire Act

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Misty rose Salamander

What I observed is previous chapters summary is using to generate prose for new chapter. If we are working on more than 30 chapters then summary will be too lengthy. I don't know if I'm right or wrong. I thinks it's better to use Act summary to reduce summary length.

December 17, 2023

Amused Mockingbird

I would like to add that this is important to me too.
I usually have short scenes/chapters and long books (1-2k word chapters, 120-190k books) and that I usually end up with a LOT of chapters! 
Act level summaries, and a way to control which context is used (act summaries, or chapter summaries) would be really helpful. 
That is If there are 5 acts, writing in act 5 would use the Act summaries for 1-3, and the chapter summaries for 4-5 etc. Something tweakable by the user?

spaceemotion

Amused Mockingbird: Yeah I probably won't do chapter summaries, but act summaries have been started already (for internal testing). Not as straightforward as I would have liked though, since summaries are an integral part right now.

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Ultramarine Angelfish

Yeah, I'm finding that once I get to 50,000+ words in the book, the scene level summary is too long and is wasteful. I'd like the ability to roll up the entire act into a summary so that I can send just that for the older stuff, to reduce the amount of context burned on plot summary. Right now you'll have to make a phantom chapter, put the summary there, and exclude all previous acts.