Total Author

A WORKSPACE FOR LITERARY FICTION

A place for your words.
A little room for possibility.

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.

ON THE DESK Star Trek meets Star Wars Actual workspace · click any screenshot to explore

MEET YOUR WRITING ROOM

One desk.
Every part of your story.

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

Stay close to the page.

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.

  • Bold, italics, chapters, scenes, and an outline.
  • Autosave, local draft recovery, and live word counts.
  • Light, Dark, and warm Paper modes.
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02 THE WRITING COMPANION

Think aloud.
Find what happens next.

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.

  • Regular chat receives the whole book and codex.
  • The area around your cursor guides the focus without limiting broader edits.
  • Include all past conversation, a few exchanges, or none.
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03 A LITTLE CHANGE. OR A BIG ONE.

Choose how much
to reimagine.

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.

  • Manual writing and AI revisions share the same manuscript.
  • Selected text comes with roughly 500 words of context on each side.
  • Ask for a wider rewrite without a selection; inspect the proposal before applying it.
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04 THE WORLD BEHIND THE WORDS

Keep your people
and places close.

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.

  • Collapsible groups and editable descriptions.
  • Use @ mentions to bring an entry into a conversation.
  • Scan an existing story or ask chat to propose new codex entries.
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05 A NAME TO BEGIN WITH

Meet someone
you haven’t written yet.

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.

  • Search by letters, country, and optional gender.
  • Random personal names use local data and no AI credits.
  • For places, give the companion a direction and ask for ten suggestions.
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06 THE FINAL WORD IS YOURS

See the difference.
Keep what feels right.

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.

  • New proposals open in a diff view.
  • View Changes stays beside the assistant reply it belongs to.
  • Compare saved revisions with the current draft and restore earlier work.
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07 NO GUESSING WHAT WAS SENT

A clear view
of your AI work.

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.

  • Use your own API key or the account’s $1 demo allowance.
  • Inspect full, formatted request and response JSON.
  • Prompts over 30,000 words warn you before paid calls.
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FROM A SPARK TO A SECOND DRAFT

Make it a conversation.
Then make it yours.

01 / BEGIN

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.

02 / EXPLORE

Talk through the possibilities.

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.

03 / SHAPE

Work at your own scale.

Edit by hand. Highlight a sentence for a focused rewrite. Or ask the companion to carry a change across the manuscript.

04 / DECIDE

Read. Compare. Keep.

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

Pull up a chair.

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.

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