Every book made with Infinight stops halfway. The story gets written, and then nothing happens until you press a button that says “make the pictures”.
People ask about this. It is an extra step in a product whose whole promise is speed, and the obvious version of this app writes and draws in one go while you put the kettle on.
We tried that first. It was worse, for two reasons that turned out to matter more than the saved minute.
A book you did not want is worse than no book
The story is the part that can be wrong in ways you care about. The dog is called Bram, not Bran. The trip to the hospital was for a broken arm and not what the story assumed. The middle got scarier than a four year old wants at half past seven.
All of that is a thirty second fix while the book is still words. Once it is illustrated it is a much bigger deal, because the pictures were drawn for the sentences that were there at the time. Changing the story afterwards means redrawing, and redrawing means waiting again.
So the pause is not a delay. It is the cheapest possible moment to notice something is wrong.
The pictures are the expensive part
Writing a story costs us a few cents. Illustrating one costs a euro or two of real money paid to the companies whose models draw it. That is not your problem directly, but it becomes your problem the moment we have to put a limit on how many books you can make.
Drawing a book nobody wanted spends that budget on nothing. Multiply it across everyone using the app and it is the difference between a free tier existing and not existing.
What you actually see
The full text, page by page. Under each page, the instructions that will be handed to the illustrator, in plain language: who is in the scene, where they are, what is happening. You can edit both. Rewrite a sentence in your own words, or change the picture instruction because you would rather see the kitchen than the garden.
Then you press the button, and the pictures arrive.
It is the one place in the app where we deliberately made things slower, and it is the feature we would keep if we had to throw everything else away.