v1.5.740
Jun 25, 2026
Feature
v1.5.740Jun 25, 2026Feature
Voysey writes to the craft of the form
A serious pass on the craft of screenplay and novel writing. Voysey now enforces a length floor by genre, so a feature screenplay is feature-length and a novel is novel-length, and the floor counts distinct beats rather than repetition, so the script reaches length by adding story rather than padding. Characters who appear must belong to the cast roster, so a polish pass can't quietly invent someone. Canonical names propagate from the seam through every paragraph and every line of dialog, and foreshadowing pays off in windowed passes rather than floating loose at the end.
What changed
- Genre length floor for screenplays and novels, so a feature is feature-length
- Beat-density floor that counts distinct beats and not raw count, which kills padding
- Roster enforcement: characters in scenes must exist in the cast (no orphans)
- Canonical names enforced at every prose leaf, no drift between drafts
- Cross-beat name-drift detector at the revision gate
- Foreshadowing pays off in windowed passes
- The screenwriting craft library now backs the creative workers