YA writing software — the voice holds, the age holds, the promise holds.
Contemporary YA, romantasy, dystopia, dark YA. Dan Harmon's story circle, first-person present voice, identity and first-love arcs, Wattpad-ready export or DOCX submission for Penguin YA, HarperCollins YA, Bloomsbury YA, Macmillan Children's. The workshop that knows what a 2026 YA manuscript actually needs.
Structure
Dan Harmon's story circle pre-loaded, or free outline if you prefer.
YA turns on an identity arc — not on worldbuilding complexity.
The eight steps of the story circle (You, Need, Go, Search, Find, Take, Return, Change) map perfectly onto a 14-to-18-year-old protagonist who leaves their safe world, faces the unknown, and returns transformed. Adapt it to contemporary YA, YA romantasy, or dystopia.
From the first imagined scene to your 16-to-25 readership.
Catch the spark, build a protagonist who rings true, place the identity arc, write without betraying the voice, get a second read — without burning out or sliding into adult tone.
YA manuscripts don't die for lack of ideas.
Cute idea. Inspiration shows up the moment the author no longer fights their tool to hold a 16-year-old voice over 300 pages.
Three promises, atop a stack of features.
Hold the narrative voice and YA arcs, support protagonist and secondary cast without confusion, ship a manuscript ready to go — Wattpad or imprint.
The 16-year-old voice holds across 300 pages.
Story circle pre-loaded, voice sheets per narrator, emotional arcs tracked chapter by chapter, @character mentions so nothing gets lost. You write, the tone holds.
Protagonist, first love, parents, friends — the whole cast breathes.
Character sheets with age, voice, secret, identity arc. AI detection of forgotten side characters, age inconsistencies, abandoned arcs.
From finished manuscript to Wattpad or imprint — no patch-up job.
Wattpad export chapter by chapter, YA imprint-spec DOCX, EPUB for beta reads, book-quality PDF for self-publishing. Title page, dedication, ISBN if you want.
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.
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.
Free to begin, even to finish. Serious when you need to go deeper.
The writing and the narrative voice are entirely yours. The subscription gives you a thoughtful co-pilot, an occasional co-author, and an objective reader drawn from your target audience.
Frequent questions, plain answers (still friendly).
Does Extypis work for YA romantasy (Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros) ?
Yes, it's one of our strongest use cases. Combine the story circle for your protagonist's identity arc with the dedicated narrative elements system for world-building (magic, creatures, factions, world rules). Character, Location, Event and Conflict sheets handle the fantasy depth; emotional arcs handle relationship and identity. Everything lives in the same project, linked by @mention.
My manuscript is on Wattpad — can Extypis help me move toward publishing ?
Yes — that's exactly the classic YA pipeline. Write and publish chapter by chapter on Wattpad (one-click Wattpad-ready export), build feedback and traction, then export a publisher-spec DOCX to submit to Penguin YA, HarperCollins YA, Bloomsbury YA, Macmillan Children's, Scholastic or Little, Brown YA. Same manuscript base, two destinations.
Will the AI write my YA novel for me and slip into adult tone ?
No. Extypis's AI proposes, never replaces. It reads your character sheet (age, schooling, voice), your identity arc, your previous chapters — and holds the YA tone on every continuation or rewrite. The author validates each word, or refuses. And if you write entirely without AI, the app remains fully functional.
How does Extypis handle representation, sensitivity readers and trigger warnings ?
The app is neutral on these matters — it censors nothing and pushes no ideology. You can keep your trigger warnings in a dedicated note sheet (NOTE status, excluded from AI and exports), maintain a sheet per character with their identity, background, neurodivergence or orientation, and prepare the brief for sensitivity readers via DOCX or EPUB export. Representation is in your hands; the tool follows.
What's the difference between YA, new adult, and YA writing software ?
YA targets ages 14-18 with a same-age protagonist (first love, identity, school, family). New adult targets 18-25 with a post-secondary protagonist (university, first job, first independence), often with more explicit romantic tension. YA writing software like Extypis knows how to hold the 14-18 register (voice, perceived age, school codes), but adapts to new adult too — change the character sheet, the AI follows.
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.
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.