A quiet room to write your book.
A professional place to write a novel, stories or poems, free and private to you. Chapters and scenes you can move with a finger, a board for loose ideas that wait beside the chapter they’re for, a story bible of your people and places, a daily page goal that forgives a missed day, a few early readers when you’re ready for them, and a clean standard manuscript the day you’re ready to send it.
No club, no readers, no one else, unless you invite them.Move anything.
Every chapter and scene sits in the binder. Drag a scene into another chapter and its chapter carries it; drag a chapter and its scenes come along. Split a scene where your cursor is, or join two back together.
A manuscript’s own mark works too: type # on a line by itself, press Enter, and the next scene begins.
Every idea, somewhere it can find its chapter.
Drop a slip on the table the moment a thought arrives: an idea, a character, a question, a line you can’t lose. Stack them into piles. Pull a thread from a setup to its payoff, and the board keeps count of the ones still open.
Drop a slip on a chapter and it waits at the top of that page when you sit down to write it. Try its words in the text, keep them or take them out.
Everyone in the book, a click from the page.
Keep your people, places and things beside the draft. Build a character as you go: what they want, what stands in the way, what they keep to themselves, how they talk, how they change.
The names you keep using are found in your pages and offered for a tap. Each card lists every scene its names appear in, and in the text a name shows its card when you rest on it. It’s worked out on your own device: your book isn’t sent anywhere to be read.
A pace that forgives.
Pick a length and a finish date, or simply a page a day. Each day asks for its share, counted in pages the way a manuscript is. Only words you type count, not pastes.
Miss a day and the rest is spread over the days you have left. Nothing is owed. Days off are days off. When today’s pages are written, you’ll know.
Your run counts the days you write, in any book, and steps over your days off. Missed one? For three days after, call it a day off and the run carries on. Ask for a reminder at your hour if you like: it comes only on a writing day you haven’t written yet, and it never scolds.
A line stays a line.
Choose poems, and the page sets your lines as you set them: no indents you didn’t make, a blank line for a stanza break, Tab to set a line in. A line too long for the page turns under itself, as it does in print.
Poems sit in sections, each with its own title, or none: an untitled poem goes by its first line. Bring a collection in from Word and its poems, stanzas and indents come with it. Export it as poetry is submitted, a poem to a page.
Just the line you're on.
Focus hides everything but the page. The paragraph you’re in stays bright, the rest falls back, and the line you’re typing holds at eye level while the page scrolls under it.
Night turns the whole room down for late writing.
Change your mind safely.
Find and replace across the whole book, the chapters you haven’t opened included, with every match lit in the text.
Take a snapshot before a big cut and go back to it whole. The Studio takes one on its own before anything that changes many parts at once, so a replace-all is always one tap from undone.
Bring your draft. Leave with a manuscript.
Drop in a Word file, a PDF or pasted text. It’s read on your own device, the chapters are found for you, and you choose what comes in.
When you’re ready, export standard manuscript format: a title page with your word count, 12-point double spacing, the running head, each chapter on a new page. It’s the file agents and editors ask for.
Yours, and nobody else’s.
- No AI.Nothing in Page a Day reads, learns from, or rewrites your words, and we never give them to anyone who would. The page even asks your browser’s writing assistants to stay out.
- You keep every right.We hold your manuscript to show it to you, and to the readers you choose. We take no rights to it, and use it for nothing else.
- Closed to us, too.Our support tools can’t open your Studio, and we don’t read what you write. Early readers see only the chapters you send them.
- Your file stays on your computer.A Word file or PDF you bring in is read in your own browser. Only the text you choose to bring in is saved.
- Leave whenever.Export a standard manuscript any time. Delete a manuscript and it’s gone, snapshots and all.
Your book, a page a day.
Free, private to you, and yours whole. When you want readers, Page a Day is here. Only when you want them.
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