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The writing studio for romance authors

Romance, romantasy, dark romance — the workshop that holds the rhythm.

Emotional beats à la Gwen Hayes, tropes (enemies to lovers, slow burn, second chance), alternating POVs, romantasy world-building, export ready for Wattpad or your publisher. Everything you need to finish a manuscript that holds together.

Structure

Romancing the Beat narrative plan pre-loaded, or free outline if you prefer.

A romance turns on its emotional beats — not its external plot.

Gwen Hayes's twelve beats (Meet, Adhesion, Deepening, Inkling of Doubt, Black Moment, Grand Gesture, Happily Ever After…) available as a canvas. You adapt to current tropes (forced proximity, fake dating, marriage of convenience).

All features, free50 AI credits offeredNo credit card
01The journey

From the first spark to your Happily Ever After.

Catch the trope that speaks to you, build both protagonists, place the beats, write the key scenes, alternate POVs, get a second read — without burning out or losing your voice.

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Step 01

Catch the trope

Everything starts with one obsessive mental scene: the meeting. A library at night. A forced marriage. An arrogant roommate. The trope is the promise you make to your readers from the back cover. Note it, keep it, it's your compass.

Notes & quick storyboard
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Step 02

Build both protagonists

A romance is two whole people colliding. Not a strong heroine and a hero serving as backdrop. Each has their voice, their secret, their blocking belief — the precise conviction that makes the relationship impossible at chapter 1, and that must evolve to allow the final reconciliation.

Character sheets + intertwined arcs
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Step 03

Place the emotional beats

The classic mistake: trying to « write by feel ». A romance that ignores Romancing the Beat sounds flat — not because the formula is mechanical, but because these beats map a real love story. Meet, Adhesion, Doubt, Black Moment, Grand Gesture. You know where you're going.

Romance narrative plan pre-loaded
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Step 04

Hold the tension

A slow burn that doesn't burn is a manuscript readers close. Alternate forced proximity scenes and moments of retreat, raise the temperature gradually (a glance, a brushed hand, a half-confession interrupted). Sexual or emotional tension builds in waves, not in a straight line.

Storyboard + POV alternation
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Step 05

Read before they read you

By chapter 28, you no longer hear your own voice. Your POVs sound alike, your hero has drifted too soft or too cold, your Black Moment beat slipped to the wrong place. Extypis's AI catches the drift: voices that merge, beats out of place, secondary characters forgotten for 12 chapters.

AI narrative consistency check
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Step 06

Publish where you want

Wattpad for community, Fyctia for contests, Hugo Romance or Bragelonne for traditional publishing. Each destination has its formats. Extypis exports them all cleanly — chapter by chapter for platforms, publisher DOCX or EPUB for submissions.

Multi-format export
02Real friction

Romance manuscripts don't die for lack of tropes.

Cute idea. Inspiration shows up the moment the author no longer fights her tool to align two POVs.

« My two POVs end up sounding alike — I lose one of the voices. »

Past chapter 15, your hero speaks like your heroine — voices contaminate each other, each one's signature fades.

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The Extypis answer

Chapters tagged by POV. Filtered view to read one voice's arc in isolation. The AI can compare two scenes and flag tonal drift — a hero thinking like your heroine, a side character sounding like your antagonist.

« My Black Moment falls flat, even though on paper it should break readers. »

You wrote the breakup scene, and yet the reader doesn't cry. The beat is there, but the emotional arc wasn't fed enough upstream.

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The Extypis answer

Romancing the Beat narrative plan pre-loaded. The Adhesion / Deepening Desire / Inkling of Doubt beats sit in their right place — the Black Moment lands because the climb was held.

« When I ask ChatGPT to continue my scene, it returns smooth Wattpad lite. »

A generic AI ignores your voice, your characters, your tension level. It gives you back generic dialogue that misses the intent.

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The Extypis answer

Extypis's AI reads your character sheet, your active POV, your previous chapters. No prompt to compose. Voice consistency guaranteed on every continuation, rewrite or suggestion.

« For my romantasy, I juggle my manuscript, a magic file, a character file, an external wiki… »

Romantasy demands dense world-building + deep romantic characters. Four tools open in parallel, you lose details by chapter 20.

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The Extypis answer

Everything in the project: Character, Location, Event, Conflict, Object, Theme sheets, and a magic system as a dedicated narrative element. @mention in the text to recall anything.

« My beta readers always catch the same inconsistencies I never see. »

The more you reread, the less you see what drifts: a character whose age changes, a kiss told twice differently, a side character introduced and forgotten.

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AI-powered narrative consistency check: factual contradictions, abandoned arcs, introduced-then-forgotten characters. Before beta reading, the AI does a first pass.

« To submit to a publisher, I need a precise format, and my DOCX comes out ugly. »

Publishers require 12pt font, double spacing, title page, precise margins. Wattpad/Fyctia want chapter-by-chapter. Doing it all manually wastes time and risks errors.

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The Extypis answer

DOCX export publisher-spec in one click. Wattpad export chapter by chapter, formatting preserved. Title page with contact, ISBN if self-publishing, optional dedication.

03What Extypis actually carries

Three promises, atop a stack of features.

Hold the romance structure, support two voices without merging them, ship a manuscript ready to go — Wattpad or publisher.

Architecture

The project holds as the manuscript grows.

Romance beats pre-loaded, chapters tagged by POV, character sheets with intertwined arcs, world-building for romantasy. You write, the project follows.

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.

The AI reads your voice, your characters, your placed beats. It continues, rewrites, checks consistency — never writes for you.

Writing assistant

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

AI analysis pack (pitch dossier, continuity, roasting, show don't tell)

Four AI analysis tools for your manuscript, grouped under the « Other tools » tab in Fabula: pitch dossier, continuity check, editorial roasting, show don't tell.

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.

Narrative element generator

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

Output

From finished manuscript to platform — no patch-up job.

Wattpad export chapter by chapter, publisher-spec DOCX, EPUB for beta reads, book-quality PDF for self-publishing. Title page, ISBN, dedication if you want.

Multi-format export

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

PDF export (LaTeX)

Generate polished PDFs with true typographic quality.

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.

Publication WordPress

Publiez directement sur votre blog WordPress depuis Extypis. Connectez votre site via un mot de passe d'application, puis publiez ou mettez à jour votre contenu en un clic. Les notes de bas de page, la bibliographie et les sections liminaires/annexes sont incluses automatiquement.

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.

Daily writing comfort

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

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.

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, even to finish. Serious when you need to go deeper.

The work of structuring and writing is entirely yours. The subscription gives you a thoughtful co-pilot, an occasional co-author, and an objective reader drawn from your target audience.

05FAQ

Frequent questions, plain answers (still friendly).

Does Extypis work for romantasy (fantasy + romance) ?

Yes, it's one of our strongest use cases. Combine the Romance narrative plan for emotional beats with the dedicated narrative elements system for world-building (magic, creatures, kingdoms, world rules). Character, Location, Event, Conflict sheets handle the fantasy depth; the beats handle the relationship. Both threads live in the same project, linked by @mention.

Can I handle multiple POVs without losing track ?

Each chapter is tagged by narrator. Filter the view to read one voice's arc in isolation, then return to chronological reading. The AI can compare two scenes and flag voice contamination — a classic drift past chapter 15.

Can I export chapter-by-chapter for Wattpad ?

Yes — Wattpad-ready export outputs each chapter as clean HTML, formatting preserved (italics, bold, line breaks). Copy-paste straight into Wattpad or Fyctia, no need to redo the layout. For publisher submissions, the DOCX export follows industry-standard formatting.

Is the AI going to write my romance for me ?

No. Extypis's AI proposes, never replaces. It continues a sentence, rewrites a passage, flags an inconsistency, suggests three variants — the author validates each word, or refuses. And if you write entirely without AI, the app remains fully functional; AI tools are an option, not a requirement.

What does Extypis cost to start ?

Free, no credit card. 50 AI credits offered for life + a generous daily cap. The subscription extends AI usage and analysis depth when your project becomes more demanding — typically once you write more than 1,500 words a day or manage multiple manuscripts in parallel.

What does « Extypis » mean ?

« Ex typis » is a Latin formula that appeared on the frontispieces of printed books from the 16th to 18th centuries, right before the printer's name — literally « from the presses of… ». The word derives from the Greek τύπος (typos): imprint, model, mark left behind. That's exactly the lineage we claim: a digital workshop that prepares your manuscripts in the great European typographic tradition, until they're worthy of being printed.

I built the writing app I'd always wished for.

Having finished a novel after several attempts, and built up years of poetry — kept right here, on Extypis — I saw firsthand how many writing blocks are really method problems, easy to move past once you give yourself the right tools. Technique doesn't replace imagination — it carries it. If you write seriously, Extypis is for you too.

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