Features
Everything between a premise and a launched book
Most AI writing tools generate a good first chapter and hand the rest back to you. The hard parts come later — chapter thirty still in your voice, a world you invented six months ago still consistent, a file a printer will accept, and a launch you have to market on your own. InkWrit covers the whole path, and this page is all of it.
Free to start — 100,000 tokens on signup, no card required.
Overview
Five stages, one tool
Each piece feeds the next. The voice engine tells the drafter how to write, the story bible tells it what is true, the architect tells it what has to happen — and once the book is done, the same manuscript writes your marketing.
Write
Getting words onto the page in a voice that is recognisably yours.
The voice engine
Learns how you write from your own pages, then keeps learning from every edit you make to AI prose.
How it learns your voiceManuscript-aware chat
Ask questions about your own book and get answers grounded in the actual manuscript and story bible, not a generic chatbot guess.
What you can ask itSelection micro-tools
Highlight a line and Describe, Expand, Rewrite or Brainstorm it — Describe works sense by sense, from sight through to touch.
See the four toolsManuscript import
Bring in a book you started elsewhere and build the story bible from what is already written. Nothing has to begin here.
How import works
Architect
The structural work that decides whether a book holds together at chapter thirty.
The story architect
Outlines with pivotal points and twists that are planted early rather than bolted on late.
How outlining worksStory structure templates
Start from Save the Cat, Three-Act, Hero's Journey, Romancing the Beat or the 27-Chapter Method — or Freeform, if a template would only get in the way.
See the five structuresThe persistent story bible
One source of truth for your world, feeding every AI call so nothing drifts across a long book.
Why context never breaksPlot-hole and continuity analysis
Contradictions, spoilers that land too early, pacing dips and thin world-building — cited chapter by chapter, across a whole series if you have one.
What analysis catches
Publish
Turning a manuscript into files a printer and a store will actually accept.
Formatting and export
Typeset print PDF with real novel typography, reflowable EPUB, fixed-layout picture books and DOCX. Always free, always unlimited.
See the formatsCovers and illustrations
Cover artwork and style-consistent children's illustrations generated inside the book, against the story bible.
See how images workCommercial rights
A one-time $79 licence per book with a signed certificate, bought the week you publish rather than the day you start.
What the licence coversISBN registration
A $49 concierge service: an ISBN assigned to your edition from our registered block, with the metadata filed for you.
How the ISBN works
Market
The part most writing tools hand back to you the moment the manuscript is done.
AI-built author and book sites
A site for you, one per series and one per book, interlinked and published in a click — built from the book you just wrote rather than a blank template.
How the sites workLaunch marketing packs
Back-cover blurb, a store-ready description, a 30-day social calendar, ad variants and an email sequence — all written from your actual manuscript.
What is in a pack
Hire
Because some of this still needs a person, and we would rather say so.
Human editor marketplace
Browse editors by specialty and word count, send a brief, and hire one without leaving your manuscript. Priced per job by the editor, paid in-app.
How hiring works
By the numbers
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Story structures to outline from — Save the Cat, Three-Act, Hero's Journey, Romancing the Beat and the 27-Chapter Method — plus Freeform.
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Kinds of story bible entry — premise, characters, locations, items, facts, plot points, themes and timeline.
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Export formats: typeset print PDF, reflowable EPUB, fixed-layout EPUB and DOCX. All free, all unlimited.
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Story bible per series, read by every book in it — including the ones you have not started yet.
The voice engine
It learns how you write before it writes anything
Generic AI prose has a sound: even sentence lengths, tidy metaphors, a fondness for tricolons. Readers notice it, and so do you when you reread your own chapter and find someone else wrote it.
InkWrit builds a style profile from your actual pages. Paste in a few thousand words you are proud of and it distils what makes them yours — sentence rhythm, how much interiority you use, whether your dialogue carries the scene or the description does, which words you never use. If you have not written enough yet, a guided interview gets you there by asking about the books you want yours to sit beside.
Then it keeps learning. Every time you rewrite a line the AI produced, that edit is a correction signal, and the profile gets sharper. By chapter ten it is making the changes you used to make by hand.
What that means in practice
- Build a profile from writing samples, a guided interview, or both
- Exemplar passages travel with every draft request, not just an abstract description of your style
- Your edits feed back into the profile — the AI stops repeating corrections
- Ask “does this sound like me?” on any passage and get a specific answer, not a score
- Keep separate profiles for separate pen names or genres
Manuscript-aware chat
Ask questions about your own book
A general chatbot cannot answer “have I already explained why she left the order?”, because it has never read your book. InkWrit’s chat has — it answers against your actual manuscript and your story bible, with the same assembled context the drafting engine uses.
That makes it useful for the questions that otherwise mean rereading two hundred pages. Where did I last mention the lighthouse? Which characters know about the will? Is this scene contradicting anything? What did I decide her mother's name was, four months ago?
What that means in practice
- Answers grounded in your manuscript and story bible, not invented
- Ask about facts, characters, timeline or continuity without leaving the chapter you are writing
- Useful for interrogating your own plot before you commit to a scene
- Each exchange shows what it cost in tokens, like every other AI job
Selection micro-tools
Four tools for the sentence in front of you
Not every AI request is “write me a chapter”. Most of the time you are stuck on one paragraph, and what you need is a nudge rather than a co-author.
Highlight any passage and four tools sit on the selection. Describe rewrites it through a single sense — sight, sound, smell, taste or touch — which is the fastest cure for prose that has gone flat and visual. Expand opens a compressed beat out into full scene. Rewrite offers variations to choose between. Brainstorm suggests where the moment could go next.
What that means in practice
- Describe, sense by sense: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
- Expand a summarised beat into a written scene
- Rewrite for variations rather than one take-it-or-leave-it replacement
- Brainstorm directions when the scene has stalled
- All four read your voice profile and story bible, so suggestions fit the book
Manuscript import
Bring the book you already started
Nothing about a manuscript has to have originated in InkWrit. Bring in a DOCX, TXT or Markdown file and one pass extracts your chapters, builds the story bible from what is already written, and distils a style profile from your own prose — characters, places and established facts pulled from the page rather than retyped from memory.
This is the usual way authors arrive: three books into a series, or 40,000 words into a novel that stalled. Most writing tools assume you are starting at page one. You get continuity analysis over work you did before you had ever heard of us, and a voice profile built from prose you already know is yours.
What that means in practice
- DOCX, TXT and Markdown
- Chapters, story bible and style profile all extracted in one pass
- The story bible is populated from the manuscript, then yours to correct
- Run a continuity pass over a book written entirely elsewhere
- The import shows its token estimate before it runs, like any AI job
The story architect
Outlines with pivotal points, and twists that were planted
A twist only works if the reader could have seen it coming and did not. That requires setup in chapters written long before the reveal — which is exactly the thing that gets forgotten.
InkWrit outlines chapter by chapter and marks the pivotal points: the moment the protagonist commits, the midpoint reversal, the reveal. When you add a twist, it pushes the setup requirements back into the earlier chapters that need them, so the groundwork is in the outline before you draft it.
Change your mind and the outline restructures without losing the threads. Move the reveal three chapters later and the planted clues move with it.
What that means in practice
- Chapter-by-chapter outlines with synopses you can rewrite by hand at any point
- Pivotal points and planned twists tracked as first-class objects, not notes
- Setup requirements pushed back into earlier chapters automatically
- Restructure the outline mid-draft without orphaning what you already wrote
- Works for nonfiction too — argument structure instead of plot beats
Story structure templates
Start from a structure that has already worked
A blank outline is nearly as intimidating as a blank page, and structure is the one part of novel-writing where proven scaffolding genuinely helps. InkWrit ships five of them, and each one is real beats rather than a name on a dropdown.
Pick Save the Cat and you get all fifteen beats — Opening Image, Catalyst, Break Into Two, Midpoint, All Is Lost, Dark Night of the Soul, through to a Final Image that mirrors the first — each placed at its conventional point in the manuscript and each carrying a note on what it is for. Three-Act, Hero’s Journey, Romancing the Beat and the 27-Chapter Method work the same way.
The template shapes the outline, not the prose. Every beat is editable, movable and deletable, and Freeform exists for the books where a structure would only get in the way.
What that means in practice
- Save the Cat — fifteen beats, from Opening Image to Final Image
- Three-Act Structure — the seven load-bearing turns
- Hero’s Journey — for quest and transformation arcs
- Romancing the Beat — built for the romance genre’s specific promises
- The 27-Chapter Method — for writers who plan in chapters rather than acts
- Freeform — no scaffolding at all, when the book does not want it
Story analysis
The read-through you cannot do on your own manuscript
You cannot spot a plot hole in a book you wrote, because your memory fills it in. The reader's memory does not.
InkWrit reads the entire manuscript against the story bible and reports what does not hold: the character who knows something nobody told them, the reveal that lands two chapters before it should, the eighty-page stretch where nothing changes, the city you named once and never described again.
Every finding names the chapter, quotes the passage, and explains why it is a problem — so you can disagree with it. Analysis is advisory. It never rewrites your book.
If the book belongs to a series, the same pass runs across the whole run. Book four is checked against books one through three, so the contradiction you would otherwise hear about from a reader gets caught before the launch.
What that means in practice
- Plot holes and continuity breaks, cited to the chapter and line
- Early spoilers — information a character or the reader gets before the story earns it
- Pacing dips measured across the manuscript, not guessed at
- Thin world-building: places, rules and objects that carry weight but were never built out
- Run it on a chapter, an act, a whole book — or across an entire series
The story bible
The reason chapter 30 still remembers chapter 3
This is the part that makes the rest work. Every character, location, object, rule, planted fact, theme and timeline entry lives in one persistent story bible, and every single AI call reads from it.
Most AI writing tools lose the thread over a long book because each request only sees a slice of what came before. InkWrit assembles context deliberately: your style profile, the bible entries relevant to this scene, rolling summaries of every prior chapter, and the tail of the chapter you just finished. The book does not get vaguer as it gets longer.
After each draft, InkWrit proposes bible updates — a new fact established, a character changed by a scene — and you approve them. The bible never edits itself behind your back, so it stays trustworthy.
Facts also have a lifespan, which is the part that matters over a series. An entry can start being true at a given book and chapter and stop being true later, so “the bridge still stands” can be correct in book one and wrong in book four without you maintaining two contradictory notes. The AI reads the version that was true at the point in the story you are writing.
What that means in practice
- Characters, locations, items, facts, plot points, themes and timeline in one place
- Validity ranges: a fact can hold from one book and chapter until another, then stop
- Spoiler gates: entries marked as unknown until a given chapter or book, so the AI cannot leak them early
- Rolling chapter summaries keep the whole manuscript in reach without pasting it all in
- Proposed updates require your approval — no silent drift
- A series shares one bible across every book in it
Formatting and export
Files a printer accepts without a conversation
A manuscript is not a book. The gap between them is trim sizes, gutter margins, running heads, drop caps, chapter openers on recto pages and embedded fonts — the reason self-published books look self-published.
InkWrit renders a real typeset PDF, not a Word document saved as PDF. Pick your trim size and the margins, running heads and page numbering follow the conventions printers expect. EPUB comes out reflowable and structurally valid. Picture books get a fixed-layout variant where the text stays exactly where you put it over the illustration.
Exports are free and unlimited. You are never charged to get your own book out of InkWrit.
What that means in practice
- Print PDF with novel typography — running heads, drop caps, proper chapter openers
- KDP and IngramSpark trim sizes with correct margins and embedded fonts
- Reflowable EPUB for ebook stores
- Fixed-layout EPUB for children's picture books
- DOCX in standard manuscript format for agents and editors
Covers and illustrations
Artwork made for this book, in this book
Cover art and interior illustrations are generated inside InkWrit, against the story bible — so the protagonist on the cover matches the protagonist in the text, and the fox on page nine is the same fox on page seventeen.
For picture books that consistency is the whole job. InkWrit holds an illustration style across every page of the book and places the artwork into the fixed-layout export with your text positioned over it.
A cover costs 20,000 tokens and an illustration 10,000 — twenty cents and ten. A fully illustrated 24-page picture book, cover included, generally lands around $2.50.
What that means in practice
- Print-resolution cover artwork
- Style-consistent interior illustrations across an entire picture book
- Characters drawn from the story bible rather than re-described each time
- Regenerate any single page without disturbing the rest
- Placed straight into the fixed-layout export
Author and book sites
A website built from the book, not from a blank template
Every author is told they need a website, and every website builder hands them an empty page and a font picker. InkWrit already has the manuscript, the blurb, the characters and the cover — so it builds the site from those.
You get an author site for you, one for each series, and one for each book, interlinked the way readers actually move: someone finds book three, follows it to the series, and lands on your author page with the rest of the catalogue. Publishing is one click, and everything stays editable afterwards.
What that means in practice
- Separate sites for you, for each series and for each book
- Interlinked automatically, so a reader who finds one book finds the rest
- Written from the actual manuscript rather than a placeholder template
- Publish in a click, and keep editing after you have
Launch marketing packs
The launch copy nobody warns you about
Finishing the book is the halfway point. Then someone asks for a back-cover blurb, a store description, thirty days of social posts, ad copy and a launch email sequence — and every one of them has to sound like the same author who wrote the novel.
A marketing pack generates all of it from your finished manuscript and your voice profile. It has read the book, so the blurb is about your actual plot and the social calendar can quote your actual lines. Everything is yours to edit, and it is copy you own outright.
What that means in practice
- Back-cover blurb and a store-ready book description
- A 30-day social calendar rather than five posts and a shrug
- Ad variants to test against each other
- A launch email sequence
- Written from the manuscript, in your voice — not from a fill-in-the-blank template
Human editor marketplace
The part that still needs a person
We are not going to tell you AI replaces an editor. It does not. Analysis catches contradictions and pacing dips; it does not tell you the book is twenty pages too long in the middle and the ending is unearned. A good developmental editor does.
So vetted editors live inside InkWrit. Browse developmental, line, copy and proofreading editors by specialty and by the word count they take on, send a brief with the manuscript attached, and hire without exporting anything or starting an email thread. Editors set their own price per job, and payment is handled in-app.
What that means in practice
- Developmental, line, copy and proofreading editors, all vetted
- Filter by specialty and by manuscript length
- Send a brief straight from the book you are working on
- Priced per job by the editor, not by us — this is not token-metered
- Payment handled in-app, and your jobs tracked in one place
See what it does with your writing, not our demo
The only test that matters is whether a chapter comes back sounding like you. Sign up free, paste in a few pages, and find out.
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