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For novelists

The novel you're carrying deserves to reach the end.

Tolkien spent decades on the genealogies of Middle-earth. Tolstoy kept a whole notebook just for his characters. Alain Damasio filled entire binders for Les Furtifs before writing the first line. No long novel has ever held together without an architecture beneath it. Extypis doesn't reinvent any of that: it brings onto the screen what novelists have always done — outlines, sheets, scenes, worlds — and quietly slips in an AI as discreet as it is useful, one that stays silent while you write.

The outline

Your outline, your scenes, your storyboard — always in plain sight.

By chapter fourteen, your novel slips away from you — and so does your outline.

Three proven architectures (simple, Save the Cat, hero's circle) or a free outline. Move a scene, the outline follows. The way Flaubert crossed out in pencil — except here, nothing is lost.

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01The journey

From the first spark to a delivered manuscript.

Catch the spark wherever it strikes, build a world that holds, keep an outline that doesn't smother the project, write in the order that suits you, call on the AI without letting it take over, revise before you're exhausted, ship a book worthy of the work you put in.

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Step 01

Catch the spark, anywhere

A character's voice shows up on a park bench, at the gas station, at 3 a.m. Yesterday, you'd have scribbled it on a receipt and prayed you'd find it again six months later. Today, your notebook follows you everywhere, and every note lands straight in the right project, the right chapter, the right scene. The real writing tool isn't the one waiting in your study; it's the one that's there when the spark strikes.

Notes & drafts anchored to the text
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Step 02

Build a world that holds

Tolkien spent his life on the genealogies of Middle-earth. Damasio filled entire binders on Les Furtifs before writing the first line. Why? Because a world is what keeps the consistency going across three hundred pages, long after memory alone has given up. Extypis gives every character, every place, every object, every conflict, every theme its own sheet. And every @mention is a permanent link between the sheet and the scene where it lives.

Linked narrative elements
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Step 03

An outline that holds, never freezes

You waver between two fears: plan too much and you smother the spark; plan too little and you lose the thread by chapter five. Bolaño wrote 2666 out of order — his daughter structured the whole thing after his death. You don't have the luxury of a patient heir. Extypis lets you lay down three proven architectures or a free outline, then drag scenes from chapter twelve to chapter three in a single gesture — and the whole structure follows, like a living draft.

Narrative plan + free reorganization
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Step 04

Write in the order that suits you

An ending scene burns while you're still on chapter 3. Yesterday, that meant cutting, pasting, renumbering, juggling files. Today, every scene, every part, every chapter stays movable, independent, and exportable in final order. You write when the urge strikes; the software handles the sequence.

Non-linear writing
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Step 05

Call the AI in, never let it take over

Damasio is right on one point: an AI that writes in your place erases your voice. But an AI that stays silent while you write, that knows your world, your characters, your outline — and only steps in on demand — becomes a real sparring partner. Rephrase a line of dialogue, unblock a transition, check that your antagonist hasn't contradicted himself across thirty chapters. As discreet as it is powerful, always under your approval.

Contextual AI assistant
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Step 06

Revise before you're exhausted

After six months, you've stopped seeing your own text. Repetition goes invisible, the passive voice settles in as a tic, your antagonist ages without you noticing. Yesterday, you had to print, let it rest, reopen, wait. Today, the fresh eye arrives in seconds — no moods, no fatigue, no ego. A second brain that doesn't replace you, that walks alongside you before you press send.

AI continuity check
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Ship a real manuscript, without regret

A novel you never send doesn't exist. To let it go with dignity, it has to be ready to pass through the hands of an editor, a committee, a first reader. Yesterday: three months of formatting, two late nights on Word patching margins, fonts that broke the moment you exported to PDF. Today: book-quality PDF via LaTeX, DOCX, EPUB, Markdown — title page and front matter included — in one click.

Multi-format export
02Real friction

The blocks on a long novel are almost never inspiration problems.

Every novelist falls for it: "I have no inspiration" is almost always the polite translation of "I didn't know where I was going, I no longer know where I am, so I no longer know where to go next." Once the method is in place, inspiration comes back — right where it belongs.

"My secondary characters keep slipping away from me."

As the manuscript grows, the details — eyes, dates, relationships — quietly leave your working memory. By chapter 17, the heroine's best friend has changed first names.

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The Extypis answer

Every character has a dedicated sheet, linked to the text through @mention. Tolstoy kept a notebook — you have a living project. And at worst, your quick notes, anchored to the text and reachable from anywhere in one click, catch whatever doesn't have its place yet.

"My outline starts lying the moment the book moves."

You move a chapter, and suddenly the table of contents lies, cross-references point sideways, the structure becomes decorative.

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The Extypis answer

Outline, storyboard and chapters are three views of one project. Moving a scene reorders everything, numbering follows, @mentions hold. And if the reshuffle creates a contradiction — an event referenced before it happened — the AI flags it in the margin.

"Generic AI flattens my voice."

A broad tool sends back smooth, decontextualized prose that needs as much repair as help. Damasio puts it plainly: an AI that writes in your place erases you.

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The Extypis answer

Extypis AI reads your outline, your sheets, your scenes — without you having to set anything up. No prompt to compose: consistency with your novel is guaranteed on every rewrite, continuation or pitch. And above all, it stays silent while you write.

"I write out of order, and my tool punishes me for it."

When the ending burns before chapter three, overly linear tools break the momentum instead of carrying it. Bolaño had no software for 2666 — you do.

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The Extypis answer

Every scene stays movable, independent, and exportable in final order. You write the epilogue first if that's what the night calls for. The software handles the sequence.

"After too many passes, I no longer see what's drifting."

The more familiar the draft, the less you notice the drift: passives, contradictory dates, unintentional refrains, forgotten arcs. Sabato burned an entire manuscript for lack of a fresh eye — literary fatigue is a poor advisor.

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The Extypis answer

Analysis tools and AI continuity checks surface the weak signals — repetition, passive voice, narrative contradictions — before they harden into the manuscript.

"My final export never looks like the book I worked on."

After months of writing, losing a day to a messy export feels like slipping back to draft level.

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The Extypis answer

Everything that makes a finished book is already in Extypis: title page, dedication, epigraph, foreword, appendices. At export — DOCX, EPUB, book-quality PDF, Markdown — the text comes out exactly as you crafted it.

03What Extypis really carries

Three solid pillars, instead of one blurry pile of features.

Hold the structure as the novel grows. Carry the editorial work without smothering the voice. Ship a manuscript as clean as something out of a print shop. That's what a long project asks for — nothing more, nothing less.

Architecture

The novel stays manageable while it keeps changing.

Extypis is strongest when a novel grows, shifts, sharpens and starts producing real internal dependencies — characters who drift, arcs that intertwine, thematic threads to hold across three hundred pages.

Structured narrative plan

Three reputable frameworks — Simple structure (3 acts), Save the Cat (15 beats) and The hero's circle — with automatic narrative health and chapter mapping.

Storyboard

Story overview with summaries, labels, quick preview and scene reordering.

Non-linear writing

Write scenes in any order, then reorganize them freely.

Narrative-elements radar

A constant radar that picks up your characters, locations, objects and events anywhere in the text — even when you refer to them by an alias — and analyzes their presence across the whole story.

8 types of narrative element cards

Dedicated cards for characters, locations, conflicts, themes, objects and more.

Editorial AI

An AI that suggests, never replaces.

On every generation, Extypis AI reads your outline, your sheets and the scenes already written. Where a generic AI starts from scratch on every prompt, ours keeps the coherence from chapter 1 to the final chapter — and stays quiet until you call.

Writing assistant

Conversational AI assistant in the sidebar, color-coded quotes highlighted in the text and one-click rewriting from any passage.

Rewriting in your text

Select any passage and let AI suggest a rewording right inside the editor.

Stroke of the pen

Place your cursor and pick the intent: extend, ramp up tension, slip in inner monologue, add description, propose a twist or open a dialogue — the AI writes in **your** voice.

Nudge when you're stuck

When you pause, a discreet bubble offers an AI nudge. Press Tab to continue your sentence — never interrupted while you write.

Continuity check

AI automatically detects contradictions, forgotten arcs and inconsistencies in your story, and saves the report.

Project presentation & summary

Tagline, short presentation and full summary automatically generated, saved and faithful to your story.

Narrative element generator

Characters, places, events, themes… generated by AI in full consistency with your project.

Image generation (cover, places, characters)

Book cover + images of your characters, places, and objects, generated by AI. Free: 3 images, standard models. Premium: unlimited, pro editorial quality (Flux 1.1 Pro, DALL-E 3).

Manuscript

The manuscript ships clean, ready for hands that matter.

Finishing tools matter as much as drafting tools: versions, readability, front matter, exports — they should save time precisely when time is scarce.

Snapshots (versions)

Create versions, compare them and restore a previous state.

Readability score

Measure how easy or demanding your text is to read.

Repetition detection

Spot unwanted repetition and refine your style faster.

Passive voice detection

Spots passive voice sentences and highlights them. Shows the percentage of passive voice in the text. Useful for energizing your writing if you tend to overuse the passive.

Front matter and back matter

Preface, afterword, dedication, epigraph, table of contents (at the start or the end?): publishing has conventions no author really learns. Extypis guides you through every editorial fixture — title page, cover auto-cropped to book format, ISBN, copyright, opening and closing sections — and lets you reorder or hide any of them at export.

PDF export (LaTeX)

Generate polished PDFs with true typographic quality.

Multi-format export

Export to PDF, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, Markdown or full archive.

After the writing

Give your project a real reading address.

Once the text is ready, you don't have to leave Extypis to find your first readers. Publish in one click on the public catalog and give your book a clean, readable, shareable page.

Extypis catalog

Published directly on Extypis — no fees, no middleman.

Publishing opens a dedicated page for your project: cover, title page, chapters, table of contents. The content is frozen at publication, so your readers always see a stable version while you keep working. You decide when to push a new version.

A reading page for each project

Customizable URL, title page, cover, table of contents and chapter-by-chapter navigation.

A catalog that helps readers find your book

Your project can appear in the public catalog, categories, subcategories and trending page — or stay accessible only through the direct link.

Readers who can actually react

Readers can comment chapter by chapter, mention a specific paragraph, and you get notified for every feedback.

A stable version without breaking your work

The text is frozen at publication time. You keep writing on your side, then decide when to push an update.

Everything Extypis unlocks for you

Hold your story, from outline to final page.

Narrative tools you won't find elsewhere — turn a tangle of ideas into a structure that holds.

AI that suggests, never replaces

The AI permanently sees your whole project — outline, sheets, scenes already written. Every rewrite, every completion, every suggestion, every cover stays consistent with your entire work, and at no extra cost or setup. You approve every word.

Estimates if you only use this feature. Credits are shared across every AI tool.

Ship a book, not a file.

From manuscript to finished book: professional exports, academic citations, direct publishing.

Analyse and refine your prose

Style tools that go beyond the spell-checker: readability, poetic meter, repetitions, connectors, passive voice.

Daily writing comfort

Everything that makes long-form writing sustainable: shortcuts, templates, anchored notes, versions, goals.

Lifetime updates

Every future Extypis innovation included, no extra cost, no paywall.

Backing an indie project

Extypis is an independent, self-funded project — no ads, no venture capital.

Human support

Got a question? You talk directly to the creator, never a chatbot.

04Pricing

Free to begin, free to finish. Real pricing when your project demands it.

The writing itself stays entirely yours. The subscription opens, when the moment comes, access to AI models stronger on long-form prose, more credits, and the depth of use that an ambitious manuscript needs.

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05FAQ

The questions novelists tend to ask before stepping in.

Will Extypis AI write my novel for me?

No. Damasio is right on this point: an AI that writes in your place erases your voice. Ours stays silent while you write, and only becomes a real sparring partner if you call on it. When you're deep in a chapter, you inevitably forget things — a character introduced three scenes earlier, a date slipped in at the beginning, a thread of consistency to hold. The AI doesn't forget: it knows your entire project — sheets, chapters, scenes, outline — and stays stoic, ready to step in only when summoned. You keep final approval, on every word.

Does Extypis AI really know my novel?

Yes. On every generation, it relies on the outline, the character sheets and the scenes already written. Where a generic AI starts from scratch on every prompt, Extypis keeps the full memory of the project so that suggestions stay coherent from chapter 1 to the final chapter.

Which AI features are actually available for fiction?

Sidebar writing assistant, targeted rewrite, inline continuation, contextual ghost completion, narrative-element generation (characters, places, objects, conflicts), cross-chapter continuity check, editorial pitch, title page, cover. All of them rely on full knowledge of your world.

If I write out of order, does the tool still hold up?

Yes. Scenes stay independent, reorderable, previewable in the storyboard, then assemble cleanly at export. You can write the epilogue first.

Is the AI the same for free and subscribed users?

No, and that goes for both text and image. On editorial-sensitive tasks (long rewrites, continuity check, editorial pitch, AI assistant), a subscription automatically switches the AI cascade to Claude Sonnet 4.6, the strongest model on French prose. Free users stay on Mistral, Llama, Cerebras and Gemini: fast and excellent for drafting, more modest on finishing and long-form consistency. For image generation (book covers), free users get Flux schnell while subscribers access Flux 1.1 Pro and DALL-E 3.

Are my texts used to train an AI?

No. Your texts are never sent to the models for training. None of the AI providers used by Extypis (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Groq, Gemini) has access to your content outside of the punctual API call required for the requested generation. The APIs are configured without training opt-in, and no data is retained on Extypis' side beyond what is strictly required to run the product.

Can I export a clean manuscript without paying?

Yes, to start seriously. Paid plans then extend AI usage, quotas and depth once the project becomes more demanding.

Is this only for fiction?

No. Extypis also serves essayists, academics, poets, screenwriters and bloggers. But this page is deliberately dedicated to the novel, because it's on long fiction projects that Extypis makes the biggest difference — narrative outline, narrative elements, cross-chapter consistency, scene-based writing.

The novel you're carrying deserves more than a word processor and three side documents.

Start by laying down the structure. Add the AI where it genuinely helps. Keep the whole project inside a single workshop that still holds once the book becomes large.

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