Fiction writing software

Fiction writing software with a co-author, not a chatbot

It plans arcs, drafts scenes, interviews your characters and catches the continuity error you missed — all inside one novel-shaped tool. 94% of writers finish chapter one in their first 7 days.

4,000+ authors started94% finish chapter 1 in 7 daysNo Credit Card Required
The Salt Road — draft61,204 words
Chapter Seven

The harbour had emptied by the time Irene reached the customs house, and the lamps along the quay were already guttering in the wind.

She had rehearsed the lie for three days. It still did not sound like something she would say.

Behind her, the bell of St. Anne's counted out the hour, and she understood that whatever she said next would be the thing he remembered her by.

ContinueRewriteIn my voice
Offline · no networkLocal model · llama 3
Six things you get · used every day

Everything the $149 buys you

Not a chatbot. A co-author that knows which job it's doing

Agent Chat switches roles as the book needs them

Ask it to plan the next arc and it acts as your architect. Ask it to draft the scene and it writes. Ask what's wrong with chapter nine and it turns critic. One conversation, six roles — Architect, Planner, Writer, Editor, Critique, Worldbuilder — and you can @-mention any character, chapter or codex entry straight into it.

Agent Chat
One thread
Architect
Act two needs a reversal before the midpoint — here's a shape for it.
Writer
Drafts the scene, in your voice, with the codex already loaded.
Critique
This beat tells us she's afraid instead of showing it. Cut the line?
Stop breaking off mid-chapter to file entries

Codex + Auto Codex

Characters, places, lore and world rules, linked across the manuscript and fed to the AI automatically. And you do not keep it by hand: finish a chapter, press once, and Auto Codex reads it back and fills the codex in with the new characters and events.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, sir," Jennings... Watson all nervous energy...
Character
Dr. John Watson
Incidental Character
It has read the whole book, not just this chapter

Assistant chat + interview any character

Ask the assistant to find every mention of the sword or summarise each scene a character appears in, and it searches the manuscript and acts. Drop into any character and ask why she lied — answers that stay consistent with the codex you wrote her into. The Relationship Map draws every character, place and connection between them so you can see the web at a glance instead of holding it in your head.

Agent Chat
Tools
You
Find all scenes mentioning Watson and summarize.
Agent
Searching scenes… calling tools: get_novel, search_scenes…
Both ends of the draft, one app

Plan the acts, then let it review the draft

Lay the novel out in acts and scenes, then point the built-in review at the finished manuscript: continuity check catches the scar that moved hands between chapter 3 and chapter 19, and novel analytics tracks POV balance, dialogue-to-narration ratio, pacing, show-vs-tell and the phrase you've used nine times without noticing.

Manuscript Review
61,204 words · 2m
POV
Chapter 12 slips into Marcus mid-scene.
Continuity
Irene's scar is on the left hand in ch. 3, right in ch. 19.
Pacing
Four consecutive scenes open with dialogue.
Overused
“barely audible” appears 9 times.
Building a world, not just a story

Invent a language, and it holds for 400 pages

Define your own words — "aurelin" for silver, "thessa" for moon — and Custom Languages applies the conversion across the whole manuscript automatically, so you never have to remember which chapter you introduced a term in. Pair it with the Novel Dictionary so spellcheck stops flagging your invented names.

Custom Language
silveraurelin
moonthessa
the old tonguesael'varr
Applied across all 24 chapters automatically
Nothing leaves the machine, nothing renews

No subscription, and no Wi-Fi either

Run a model in Ollama or LM Studio and the whole app works with the connection off — nothing uploads, because there is nowhere for it to go. Prefer a frontier model? Bring your own key and pay that provider only, with no monthly fee on top.

AI Provider
Ollama · llama 3
On this machine
Connected
LM Studio
On this machine
Available
Claude · your own key
Leaves your machine
Optional

You get all of it for $149
once

One price for every novel you will ever write — plan, draft, interview your cast and catch continuity errors, all in one place. $149 once, no subscription.

Novel MageOnce. Every novel you ever write.
$149
Sudowrite Professional$29 a month, every month
$348 / year
Novelcrafter Artisan$14 a month, every month
$168 / year

Three ways you cannot lose money here

01

Try it before you pay

7 days of full access, free. We never ask for a card, so there is nothing to forget to cancel.

02

7-day refund, no questions

Buy it, change your mind, email us. Money back, and you never have to explain why.

03

It cannot be taken away

Your files are local and the licence is yours. The app keeps working even if we shut down tomorrow.

Try Novel Mage Free

7 days, every feature, no credit card. Keep it for $149 once, or walk away.