A dated record of the work that makes the book yours
Last checked against the product November 10, 2026
Write with AI and sooner or later someone asks how much of the book is yours: a copyright form, a publisher, an agent, a store’s disclosure question. A finished manuscript cannot answer, because it looks the same however it was made. The Novelmint Studio keeps the answer as you work. It records the beats you write, the characters you shape, the drafts you turn down and the sentences you change, each with a date. Beside your book’s readiness bar it shows how much of the book you made and how much the AI made, and View log opens the whole record, day by day, to read, print or save as a PDF.
Key takeaways
- Novelmint records the author’s own work on a book as it happens: beats written, edited, moved and cut, text edits, imports of their own writing, AI drafts kept or turned down, and story bible and plot thread changes.
- The Timeline’s Book Readiness card shows a chip with two numbers, yours and the AI’s. Hovering it lists the facts behind them. Only you see it.
- Decisions count most: whose beats, characters, places and plot threads they are. Beats you make with Minty, the editor built into the Studio, count as yours; an AI agent’s beats count once you keep them.
- View log opens a dated log of everything you did on the book, plus what the AI did for it by model. Print it, save it as a PDF, or download it as data.
- The record began on 10 August 2026. Work from before then is not in it, and it is left out of the numbers rather than counted as the AI’s.
What it does
What it records and shows
Your acts, with dates
Beats you write, edit, move and delete. Edits to beat and chapter text. Your own manuscript text when you import it, with its word count. Drafts you turn down and ask for again. An AI agent’s draft you choose to keep. Changes to the story bible and plot threads.
Your share, beside the readiness bar
A chip on the Book Readiness card shows how much of the book you made and how much the AI made. It sits apart from the readiness score, because how much of a book is yours has nothing to do with how finished it is.
Decisions first, then words
Most of the weight goes to decisions: the beats, characters, places and plot threads that are yours. The rest is the final text, sentence by sentence. Any sentence you change, even by a comma, counts as yours.
The facts behind the number
Hover the chip to see what it is built from: beats you wrote or edited, how many with Minty, beats kept from an agent, imports, edits, redos and story bible changes, plus anything left out because it came before the record began.
A log you can print
View log opens the record as a page: counts, any declaration you made about the series’ origin, then your work day by day, with the series-wide changes tagged. Use your browser’s Print to save it as a PDF, or download the same record as data.
What the AI did, on the same page
The log also lists what the AI did for the book on your account, by model, with the number of requests and when they ran. Your work and the machine’s sit side by side, as facts.
How to use it
From writing to a record you can hand over
Write the way you already do
There is nothing to switch on. Planning beats on the Timeline, working with Minty, editing prose and importing your own chapters are recorded as you go.
Find the chip on the Book Readiness card
Open your book’s Timeline. The chip sits on the right of the readiness card at the top. A new book says No record yet until there is something to count.
Hover it to see the facts
The popover is titled Who made this book. It lists your decisions and your words, the facts behind them, and the date the record began.
Press View log
The full record opens in a new tab: what you did on the book, day by day, and what the AI did, by model.
Keep a copy
Print it or choose Save as PDF in your browser’s Print. Download as data gives the same record in a structured file. Ask Minty if you want the number explained.
Example
What a day in the log looks like
You ask
View log, for an invented book
You get back
- 3 March - Wrote 6 beats in chapter 4. Moved 2 beats in chapter 4.
- 3 March - Turned down a draft of chapter 4 and asked for another.
- 4 March - Edited the text of 3 beats in chapter 4. Kept an AI agent’s draft of chapter 5.
- 4 March - Edited "Ilsa Marrow" in the story bible (whole series).
An illustration with an invented book, to show the shape of the log. Your record comes from your own work.
Questions
Frequently asked
- What is Novelmint’s authorship record?
- A dated record of the author’s own work on a book: beats written, edited, moved and cut, text edits, imports of their own writing, AI drafts kept or turned down, and story bible and plot thread changes. The Timeline shows a share built from it, and View log opens the record as a printable page.
- Can I use it for a copyright registration or a publisher who asks about AI?
- You can print it or save it as a PDF and share it with anyone you choose. It lists facts and dates from Novelmint’s logs and makes no legal claim; what it shows is for the office, publisher or platform reading it to decide. The guide explains what those people usually ask. It is general information, not legal advice.Showing your authorship of an AI-assisted book
- How is my share worked out?
- Decisions count most: whose beats, characters, places and plot threads they are, including ones you make with Minty or keep from an AI agent. The rest is the final words: imported text of your own, and any sentence you change, even by a comma. It is Novelmint’s own measure, not a legal one.
- What about work I did before the record started?
- Recording began on 10 August 2026, so earlier work is not in the log. It is left out of the share rather than counted as the AI’s, and the popover says how much was left out. A book with nothing recorded says No record yet, never zero.
- Who can see it?
- Only you, the book’s owner. The share is never shown to readers or on your public pages, and the log opens only for you.
- Can Minty or my own AI read it?
- Yes. Minty, and an AI app connected to Novelmint, can read the same share and the facts behind it and explain them to you. Reading it is free.Use Novelmint from Claude
- Does it cost anything?
- No. The record is kept for every book on every plan, and the log is free to open, print and download.
What this page does not claim
- It is not legal advice and does not certify authorship or copyright. It is a list of facts and dates, and whether it satisfies any office, publisher or platform is for them to decide.
- The share is Novelmint’s own measure, not a legal test, and it is shown only to you.
- Recording began on 10 August 2026. Work from before then is not in the record.
- The share is worked out per book. The log names the chapters each act touched.
- The sample log on this page is invented. It is not taken from a real book.
Keep reading
Why the record can exist
Human authorship lives in the decisions: what happens, in what order, to whom, and how the words were shaped afterwards. Novelmint plans a book in beats and keeps the cast in a story bible, so those decisions are things the Studio can see and date. The guide explains what counts; the pages below cover the rest of what you keep.
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