The writing studio
Folio drafts with you, edits with you and argues with you — every change tracked on the page, every decision yours. From blank page to a print-ready book.
The desk
The Long Vanishing
K to jump anywhere
The First Note
The rain had stopped an hour ago and the town was still giving it back, gutter by gutter, the whole length of Harrow Street, where the lamplight broke on the wet slate into a hundred small shifting coins. Wren counted the lit windows out of habit. Four. The same four as every night since October.
The note was folded into the gap between the railing and the post, and the railing was colder than she expected when she reached for it. Somewhere behind her a door closed, and then closed again.
Ask anything — or ask for changes and the agent edits the chapter directly. You review every change before it sticks.
Rewrite in place
Select any line and reshape it — tighten, expand, change the register. The page is still yours.
It read the whole chapter
The assistant answers with your text in context, not a blank prompt box.
One desk, ten tools
Cast, notes, brainstorm, critique — every part of the book, one keystroke away.
How you work
Bring a manuscript you've already started or begin from scratch. Upload notes, research, world docs: the studio indexes them and keeps them in mind everywhere.
Start from what you haveRewrite a line without losing your voice. Ask in plain language. The assistant knows the chapter and answers in context, never into a void.
Write and askA reader with no reason to be kind combs the whole manuscript and tells you what's banal, what's missing, and what you're avoiding. Before a real reader does.
Get taken apartWhen the last chapter is approved, pick format and typography and export a clean PDF — ready for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, or commercial print.
ExportThe Critic has no incentive to be kind. It reads the whole draft looking for what's banal, what's missing, and what you're avoiding — then says it plainly, before a real reader does.
The hard reader
Critique
Overly ornate description that stalls the narrative
Rain-slicked streets doing the work of actual dread
The note arrives before the reader cares who left it
Manuscript memory
Chapters, characters, world notes, the research you upload — all indexed into one memory. So every suggestion, every critique, every rewrite already knows your book. Coherence stops being your job alone.
Feed it your draftSensory studio
The studio reads the chapter and scores what a reader can actually perceive. Where the page goes quiet, one tap weaves the missing sense back in — in your voice, as a tracked edit.
The rest of the desk
Brainstorm
Throw ideas at the wall on a living map — and see the shape the AI reads in them.
Cast
Build characters with real depth — values, flaws, backstory — and portraits to match.
Notes
Every fact the book needs, in one place and always within reach.
Senses
A five-sense radar for every chapter: see where the prose reads flat and weave the missing sense in with a tracked edit.
Maps
Draw the world your story lives in, layer by layer.
Publish
Export a clean, print-ready book the moment the last chapter lands.
Start free. Bring a finished draft or a blank page — the studio meets you where you are, and keeps every word yours.
Open the studio