Give the story a home.
Name your book. Add a synopsis and style notes, or import an existing TXT or DOCX draft. Start typing wherever the story begins.
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A WORKSPACE FOR LITERARY FICTION
For the first sentence, the difficult chapter, and the world that won’t leave you alone. Write with an AI companion beside you—and keep your voice at the heart of every page.
Your manuscript. Your world. Every edit yours to approve.
MEET YOUR WRITING ROOM
A manuscript to shape. A companion to think with. A codex to keep the details close. Move between them without losing the thread.
01 THE MANUSCRIPT
Write directly in a quiet, serif editor. Shape a paragraph, mark a new chapter, or find your rhythm one sentence at a time. Page boundaries and generous margins give your draft room to breathe.
02 THE WRITING COMPANION
Tell the companion what you’re trying to do. Explore a character’s motivation, question a scene, or ask for a different direction. Keep talking: your chosen conversation history travels with the next request.
03 A LITTLE CHANGE. OR A BIG ONE.
Ask for a revision across the book, or highlight a passage to work on just those words. Selection editing sends the passage and nearby context while keeping everything outside the selection untouched.
04 THE WORLD BEHIND THE WORDS
Build a living reference for your book’s characters, places, objects, and lore. Add your own types, capture aliases and nicknames, and open an entry by clicking its name in the manuscript.
05 A NAME TO BEGIN WITH
Search real name datasets or generate fresh first-and-last-name combinations. Choose each name’s country independently, then apply your choice to the codex entry you’re working on.
06 THE FINAL WORD IS YOURS
Every AI edit begins as a proposal. Read the additions and removals, approve the changes you want, and reject the rest. Saved revisions let you look back at how the manuscript and codex have changed.
07 NO GUESSING WHAT WAS SENT
Choose an OpenRouter model, favorite the ones you return to, and filter by output price. Track spending by book and account, then open the LLM log to inspect individual requests and responses.
FROM A SPARK TO A SECOND DRAFT
Name your book. Add a synopsis and style notes, or import an existing TXT or DOCX draft. Start typing wherever the story begins.
Ask what a character wants, what a scene is missing, or how to carry an idea through the book. Bring codex entries into the conversation with @ mentions.
Edit by hand. Highlight a sentence for a focused rewrite. Or ask the companion to carry a change across the manuscript.
Review the diff and choose what belongs in your story. Keep writing, revisit earlier revisions, and export your work as TXT or DOCX.
THE NEXT SENTENCE IS WAITING
You bring the story. We’ll keep a place for it.
Start your next chapter ↗No subscription checkout. Bring an OpenRouter key or start with the $1 demo allowance.