# m-damien/VisualStoryWriting

🧙‍♂️ Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

Repository: https://github.com/m-damien/VisualStoryWriting
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/visualstorywriting
Homepage: http://damienmasson.com/VisualStoryWriting/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-07-13T20:52:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 31, release rhythm 35, longevity 29
- inputs: {"age_days": 416, "days_push": 416, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1031, forks 136 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:17.963766+00:00)

## What it is
A web application that automatically visualizes a story's chronology, characters, and their movements, letting writers edit the story by manipulating these visual representations. It uses GPT-4o via the OpenAI API to extract story information and suggest text edits reflecting visual changes.

## Use cases
- edit a story by dragging characters on a visual timeline
- reorder story events visually and get suggested text edits
- review the chronology and character movements of a narrative
- connect two characters to suggest interaction edits in the text
- write fiction using visual representations instead of raw text

## When to choose
- you want to edit narrative text through visual manipulations of characters and events
- you are a researcher or writer exploring AI-assisted story editing interfaces
- you want to try the published Visual Story-Writing research system locally

## When to avoid
- you need offline story editing without an OpenAI API key
- you need a production writing tool rather than a research prototype
- you use browsers other than recent Chrome or Firefox

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: nlp, llm-inference, editor, data-visualization
- domain: large-language-models, developer-tools, education
- platform: -
- tags: story-writing, visual-editing, gpt-4o, creative-writing, research-prototype, react, vite, natural-language-processing, web, nodejs

## Member repositories
- m-damien/VisualStoryWriting (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:17.963766+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:07:27.955983+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/m-damien/VisualStoryWriting (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:17.963766+00:00, sha e2541ea1bbfa)
  - homepage: http://damienmasson.com/VisualStoryWriting/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:06:55.594014+00:00, sha bcf4c0fddd92)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.