The "Start Your Novel" section and the Idea Wizard are not the same thing โ they serve different stages of the writing process.
When you arrive at the World Wizards page, you'll see a "Start Your Novel" section at the top before the wizard grid. And elsewhere on the platform, there's a separate tool called the Idea Wizard. They look related. They do different things.
A story context collector. You fill in your working title, genre, target word count, one-sentence premise, and protagonist goal โ then pick a wizard from the grid below. Those parameters carry forward into the wizard you choose, so you're not starting from scratch when you open it. It's a handoff mechanism. It assumes you already know which wizard you want.
An architecture finder. You describe your story concept โ what it's about, how it moves, what kind of tension it has โ and the Idea Wizard analyses your answers and identifies which of the 9 architecture types fits your story. It then routes you to the right hub page, Architecture Generator, Plotting Tools, and World Wizards. It's for when you don't yet know which wizard to pick.
WW "Start Your Novel" = here's my story context, carry it forward into the wizard I've already chosen.
Idea Wizard = I don't know which architecture I need โ help me find it.
They are not duplicates. They are not competing. They serve different stages of the same process.
It doesn't route to Plotting Tools only, or World Wizards only. It routes to both. When it identifies your architecture type, it shows you the architecture hub page, the matching Plotting Tools, and the matching World Wizards. You choose which product to work with. The Idea Wizard's job is architecture identification โ not product selection.