The Character Library makes it easy to create, organize, and reuse characters across all of your books. With everything stored in one centralized place, you can quickly browse your saved characters, maintain consistency throughout your stories, and bring new ideas to life faster while creating books.
Head over to the "My Library" tab.
Click on "My Characters."
Click on "+ New Character."
Add your character's name.
Enter the character's description.
💡 Tip: Your character's appearance (such as skin tone, hair color, clothing, height, and age) is already defined by their profile image. Use the Character Description to explain their personality, role, goals, or unique traits that help drive the story instead.
✅ Good: "A curious young inventor who loves solving puzzles and never gives up."
❌ Avoid: "A tall girl with brown hair, blue eyes, and a red shirt."
Choose the character type.
Upload the character's photo.
⚠️ For manually added characters: Upload a profile image containing a single person or character only. Avoid images with multiple people, characters, or group scenes to ensure the best results.
Optional: Click on "Change appearance" if you'd like to change the drawing style or add details to the character.
Click on "Drawing Style."
⚠️ When you change an uploaded character's style, that style will be preserved when the character is added to a book, even if the book uses a different style. If you want the character to match the book's style, do not modify the character style here.
The styles available to you will be based on your plan level. The Starter plan includes one style. One-time purchases include one style in each category. The Plus plan includes three styles per category, while the Pro plan unlocks all styles.
Browse through the available categories.
Hover over the drawing style to reveal and click on the enlarge tool.
Once selected, you’ll see a full-size preview of the drawing style.
Click on "Continue."
If you only want to change the drawing style of the character click on "Apply."
If you’d like, you can also add any additional details you want Scrively to apply to the character.
Click on "Apply."
Give Scrively a few moments to process the change.
The requested edit will be applied to the character.
Not happy with the edit? Click on "Undo."
Click on "Save Character" once you're satisfied.
Congratulations! Your character has been created. You'll be able to use the character in any of your books which you can learn more about here.
Need to make changes? Click on "Update character details" at the top right of the character card.
Click on the trash icon to "Remove this character" from your character library.
