Thoughts on writing, creativity, and building tools for novelists.
The nonprofit behind National Novel Writing Month shut down in 2025 after AI controversies and financial collapse. But the thing that made NaNoWriMo magical was never the organization — it was the discipline. Here's how to keep going.
Manuscript Health analyzes your writing patterns — sentence rhythm, adverb density, passive voice, dialogue ratio, and more — without any AI. Here's how it works and why it matters.
This app started with a simple question from someone I love: why isn't there a writing tool that just works, offline, beautiful, and free? Here's the story.
A step-by-step guide to setting up your first novel project in Writefully So — from installation to writing your first chapter, building characters, and organizing your world.
AI companies are training on authors' novels without consent. Learn how local-first writing software protects your manuscript from data harvesting — plus backup strategies to keep it safe.
Your novel is yours. Here's why we built Writefully So to keep your work on your machine — and why that matters more than ever.
Chapters, characters, world-building notes, timelines — novel writing generates a lot of material. Here's how to keep it all straight.
Scrivener set the standard for novel writing software. But if you're looking for something modern, free, and private — here's what we built.