The atlas and the manuscript, on one desk
Build the world.
Then write the book inside it.
Your characters, maps, history and chapters live side by side, so the world you invented on page 12 is still true on page 400.
AI is optional. It shows what it costs, and nothing it suggests is kept until you say so.
What's on the desk
Everything a long book leans on, where you can reach it
Writers keep their world in six places: a notes app, a spreadsheet, a folder of maps, a timeline on the wall, the draft, and their memory. This is one place.
A desk made for long books
Chapters in parts, scenes with their own point of view and setting, daily goals and a streak. A spare copy is kept every 300 words.
A codex that asks what an editor would
Profiles shaped to each kind of entry. For a character: want, need, wound, the lie they believe, how they talk. For a faction: its seat, its methods, its secrets.
Maps worth printing as endpapers
Coastlines, ranges and rivers drawn from your codex, from one valley up to a whole planet, a star system or a galaxy. Any place can hold a map of its own.
History that keeps count
Ages and events in your own calendar. Give someone a birth year and the app knows their age in every chapter.
Continuity while you write
Timeline slips, the dead still acting, two names that read alike on the page. The structural checks cost nothing and run as you go.
Ready for the printer
Print-ready Word at your trim size, standard manuscript format for agents, EPUB, and a full cover wrap with the spine measured from your page count.
Its print wrap was checked in the cover studio against a 6 x 9 in book of 539 pages, spine included.
Made in Atlas & Ash
The Long Dark
Book One of The Wells of the Meridian, by Dylan Desjardins. A space opera about debt, air and the slow death of the roads between stars. Its codex, maps, chronicle, manuscript and cover all live in this app.
- 197,384
- words
- 52
- chapters
- 176
- codex entries, all fully developed
- 419
- connections
- 10
- star systems charted
- 539
- pages in print
Sael Marr
A nineteen-year-old shipbreaker on the Fourth Shift who finds the Patient Hour's reckoner core still awake.
Tamsin Veyle
Heir of House Veyle and second lieutenant aboard the Obedience of Stone.
Ilse Varantes
Commander of the Ninth Tithe.
Liesl Odrey
Reckoner of the Patient Hour, Anselm's sister.
The Obedience of Stone
A 900 m Veyle lancer with a spinal slag lance.
Hesk
An ice-and-rock moon of Orrin.
The Cinder Yards
The shipbreaking grounds on the ice plain, open to vacuum, where hulks are lowered and cut apart.
House Veyle
Colours slate and bone; a closed eye.
How it works
From a blank page to a printed book
- 1
Start small
Answer five questions and get a starter world with gaps left for you, or begin with nothing but a title.
- 2
Write
Open the desk. Name a character and their facts and age appear beside the page.
- 3
Grow the world as the book asks
Add places and watch the map redraw. Date the history. Connect who serves whom and who betrayed whom.
- 4
Finish
Check continuity, then export the manuscript, the world bible and the cover wrap.
AI when you ask for it
Every AI action shows its cost and asks first. Suggestions arrive as a list you tick through, and your voice notes and banned words apply to every draft. Typing it yourself is always free.
Your work leaves with you
Export any time: Word, EPUB, Markdown, a formatted world bible, and a single world file that carries the whole world to a backup or a co-author.
Built for
Your first entry takes ten seconds
Give the world a title and start writing, or let the app draft a starter world for you to take apart. A four-minute tour shows you round.