General writing tools have one model of text and it is a paragraph. That silently destroys poetry, screenplays, picture books and graphic novels, because in those forms the line break, the margin and the page turn carry the meaning. Mode Guards hold the rules of your form through every pass.
Tool
Why general AI tools break poetry, scripts and textbooks
What it does, precisely
- Holds poetry lineation, stanza breaks and deliberate white space intact
- Preserves screenplay and stage conventions — scene headings, action lines, cues
- Keeps textbook structure and assesses against teaching standards
- Applies before any model is called, not as a correction afterwards
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What it does
The guards are rules injected before the request reaches a model, so the model is never in a position to normalise your form in the first place. Prevention rather than correction.
What this looks like in your genre
poetry. The line break is the poem. Mode Guards hold line breaks, indentation, deliberate spacing and stanza structure through every pass, so nothing joins your lines into paragraphs or normalises a gap you put there on purpose.
script. Screenplay format is an industry convention with fixed margins per element, and it exists because a page equals roughly a minute. Mode Guards preserve element types and margins through every pass, so nothing reflows dialogue into prose or loses a character cue — the silent failure of general tools applied to scripts.
textbook. A textbook is structurally dense in ways prose tools mishandle: numbered headings, figures and their captions, tables, boxed examples, equations, exercises and cross-references. Mode Guards hold that structure so an editing pass does not flatten a worked example into a paragraph.
However you write
Applies to everything in the manuscript regardless of how it arrived. If you upload a poetry collection or a screenplay written elsewhere, the guards go on before anything reads it.
The mistake: assuming a writing tool knows what a poem is
Paste a poem into a general writing assistant and watch it helpfully close up your line breaks. Paste a screenplay and watch the scene headings dissolve into prose. Paste a textbook and watch it smooth away the deliberate repetition that makes the teaching work.
These tools have one model of what text is, and it is a paragraph. Everything else reads to them as a paragraph formatted incorrectly, and they will fix it for you. Poets and screenwriters learn to distrust the whole category after one experience of this, which is reasonable — the damage is silent and you often find it three drafts later.
What Your Book Pro does here
Your Book Pro is a writing studio for people making a real book. You bring the words — typed straight in, dictated if you'd rather talk, or uploaded from whatever you have already written elsewhere — and it does the work that normally costs thousands: structure, editorial feedback, proofreading, a cover, and a publisher-ready export.
One rule shapes all of it. Your words are stored as Exact Text and are never overwritten. Every suggestion arrives attached to a place in your manuscript, and nothing changes until you accept it. Where most AI tools quietly rewrite you into their own register, this one shows you the change and waits. Even the automatic clean-up pass is held to a length check — if it drifts too far from what you actually wrote, the edit is thrown away and you keep your own words. The editorial standards behind the feedback are our own, written for books and specific to your genre, not a general chatbot answering in a good mood.
Mode guards are rules injected before your text reaches a model, so lineation, scene headings and teaching structure are protected by design rather than repaired afterwards. Guards exist for poetry, script and textbook.
If you're writing in an experimental form that breaks its own conventions on purpose, say so — the guard will otherwise defend a convention you are deliberately violating.
Where it stops
Guards exist for poetry, script and textbook. If you are writing in an experimental form that breaks its own conventions on purpose, tell the system — it will otherwise treat a deliberate violation as an error.
What this replaces
| What you are buying | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| A genre-specialist editor who knows the form's conventions |
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