Write a book with AI, from one sentence to a finished manuscript
You have had the idea for years. The problem was never the idea: it was the four hundred blank pages after it. INKFLOW is an AI book writer that takes the idea and writes the book, chapter by chapter, in a voice you choose.
It does not hand you a scene and leave you to stitch the rest together. It plans the whole book, writes every chapter, and checks each one against the last so names, places and facts stay straight from page one to the end.
From one sentence to chapter one
- 1Tell it the ideaOne or two sentences are enough: who it is about, what they want, what stands in the way. Add a genre if you like.
- 2Pick a voiceEleven writing voices, from a cosy storyteller to fast thriller pacing, noir or a read-aloud children's voice. Each has a sample you can read first.
- 3Read the chaptersYour first three chapters are written free, about 10,000 words, with no card. Keep going in the app, or have the whole book written for you.
A real Chapter 1, written from one line
The idea typed in: “A retired lighthouse keeper on a Scottish island finds a message in a bottle addressed to her late mother.” · voice: cosy. The first lines below are INKFLOW’s output, unedited. The full piece ran to 1,280 words.
The morning after the gale, Elspeth Gunn was halfway along the shingle at Camas Bàn, a flask of tea tucked under one arm and her good walking stick in the other hand, when Biscuit began to bark at the sea.
It was not the old dog's usual bark, the cheerful one kept for gulls and the postie's van. This was lower, a worried sort of grumble, and it came from the far end of the bay where the tide had left a long tangle of kelp and rope and broken creel.
"What have you got there, lass?" Elspeth called, and picked her way over the stones towards him, her boots crunching and slipping and finding their footing again.
The wind had blown itself out somewhere in the night, leaving the air rinsed and cold and smelling of salt and wet seaweed. Out past the skerries the water was still restless, grey-green and heaving, but the sky above the Isle of Fennick had cleared to a pale washed blue. On the headland behind her stood the lighthouse, white as a scrubbed bone, its lamp dark now for eleven years. Elspeth still looked up at it every morning, out of habit, the way some folk glance at a clock they know has stopped.
What the book gets before you read it
Writing a novel with AI: length and structure
Choose the length before chapter one. A novella runs to 44,800 words in 14 chapters, a standard novel to 102,400 words in 32 chapters, and an epic to 192,000 words in 60 chapters. Longer epic editions are written by the chapter, up to 900,000 words in one volume.
Before chapter one, the world of your story is researched and the AI novel writer lays out a chapter plan for the whole book: what each chapter has to do, who is in it and when it is set.
Then the chapters are written in turn. When one is finished, the continuity record is brought up to date with what it established, and the next chapter is checked against that record before you see it. That is how you write a novel with AI and keep the ending true to the beginning.