IdeaM · Novel Writer
Give IdeaM a one-line premise. It plans the book the way an editor and author do, then writes every chapter as prose — keeping names, facts and threads straight from the first page to the last — and hands back a book PDF and an ePub.
Today
A premise and a blank page
The opening scene is clear; the middle of the book is fog. Who is in chapter eleven, and what do they know by then?
With Novel Writer
Every chapter on the page
A complete first draft in your outline — Part, Chapter, scene — ready for you to read, rework and make your own.
01You decide
The premise, then the novelist's choices: genre, point of view, tense, audience (adult, young adult, middle grade) and length — a novella or a full novel.
02Plan
Title and logline, characters with their arcs, and the world the story lives in.
03Plan
A three-part structure, then a chapter-by-chapter outline with the beats of every scene — the ending planned for the end.
04Write
Each chapter written as prose, scene by scene, in the point of view and tense you chose.
05Write
After every chapter, a running Story So Far is updated: what happened, where everyone stands, open threads, fixed facts.
06Check
Point of view and tense are checked; a chapter that reaches the ending too early is written again.
07Deliver
A book PDF — title page, contents with page numbers, chapters — and an ePub e-book.
Saved into your outline chapter by chapter: if the computer sleeps or the app closes, nothing written is lost — press Continue and it picks up at the next chapter.
Every chapter is written with the book's notes, the Story So Far and the last page of the chapter before — so the main character keeps her name, the key stays lost, and the ending happens once, at the end.
The Night Bakery — third person, present tense, literary fiction. One run, from a one-line premise: a widowed baker who opens only from midnight to dawn discovers her strangest regular is the son she gave up thirty years ago.
Chapter 1
The Rhythm
Eliza wipes flour dust from the counter, the white powder catching the sickly yellow glow of the single overhead bulb. The bakery, "The Midnight Loaf," smells permanently of yeast, burnt sugar, and melancholic coffee. It is 12:03 AM. She moves with a practiced economy, her movements honed over years of this solitary vigil. The damp cloth she uses against the polished marble counter drags across the surface, lifting fine, ghostly drifts of flour. The sound is a soft, rhythmic shush-shush, a scrubbing sound that scrapes away the residue of the previous day, and the day before that.
She stops scrubbing, her elbow resting on the cool stone. Her gaze sweeps over the expanse of the counter, noting the faint, almost invisible stain near the cash register—a smudge of something dark, perhaps old espresso, perhaps something else. She dips her cloth into a bowl of warm, soapy water, the scent of citrus cleaner cutting sharply through the yeasty atmosphere. She attacks the stain, scrubbing with increased vigor until the marble gleams back to a uniform, pale grey.
The sourdough starter sits on a wooden board nearby, a milky, bubbling ecosystem captured in a glass jar. Eliza approaches it, her attention narrowing to the surface film. She carries a small wooden paddle, its surface worn smooth by decades of use. She stirs the mixture, adding a precise measure of lukewarm, filtered water. The starter bubbles, a slow, determined life force asserting itself against the ambient chill of the early hour. It smells richly alive, earthy and faintly acidic.
Written by IdeaM from a one-line premise — unedited first draft. The opening of Chapter 1, word for word. The whole novella: book PDF · ePub.