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# Generate Custom Fiction Decodable Stories in LitLab
> Create an original fiction decodable story aligned to your program's phonics skills. Customize the character, name, keywords, length, and illustrations.
The LitLab generator creates original, illustrated fiction stories — aligned to your phonics skill and customized to your students' interests.
Fiction is one of three story types in LitLab's generator — Fiction, Non-fiction, and Reader's Theater all live on the same **Generator** page; switch between them with the tabs at the top.
## Generating a Fiction Story
Choose any skill in your sequence from the skill picker.
Pick from a curated list of characters (including seasonal options), or choose "girl"/"boy" and customize their look using preset options for eye color, skin tone, hair texture, and hair color.
Want a character named after a student? Add a name. Want the story to involve a soccer game, a beach trip, or a missing pet? Add up to 4 keywords.
Use the slider to choose a length from 5–40 sentences.
Select between a single illustration and a fully illustrated story (one image per page).
LitLab writes and illustrates your story. A fully illustrated story (an image on every page) can take a bit longer than a single-image story.
**Differentiate while practicing the same skill.** Give developing readers shorter, fully illustrated stories, and challenge advanced readers with longer stories and fewer illustrations.
## What You Can Customize
| Setting | Options |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Phonics skill | Any skill in your sequence |
| Character | Curated list (including seasonal), or "girl"/"boy" with preset appearance options |
| Character name | Optional, up to 15 letters |
| Keywords | Up to 4, to influence the plot |
| Length | 5–40 sentences (slider, in steps of 5) |
| Illustrations | One illustration, or fully illustrated (one image per page) |
Generate **one personalized decodable each week** featuring a student's name from your class. Students love discovering which of their classmates is featured in the weekly story!
## Edit Before You Assign
Generated stories are fully editable — rewrite any page's text, regenerate an illustration with your own custom prompt, add or delete pages, and edit the title or character name. See [Editing & Remixing](/generator/editing-decodables) for more details.
## Access Your Stories
Generated stories are saved to [**My content**](/library/beyond-grab-and-go#my-content), where you can find them later to re-assign or edit. Want to share a story with other teachers? Publish it to the **Community Library** — this makes it visible to other LitLab educators.
**Free accounts have a weekly limit** on story generation that resets weekly (5 generations per week). Premium accounts have unlimited generation.